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The Bannon & Arron Banks backed Johnson now clear leader in the betting to succeed TMay pic.twitter.com/3rJSu3mK75

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MarqueeMark · August 2018

Like Bannon and Arron Banks are Boris's only backers....

(Corbynesque eye-roll....)

Richard_Nabavi · August 2018

Number one rule... lay the favourite....

rottenborough · August 2018

2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.

rottenborough · August 2018

Which is a shame for my wallet, and probably the country.

Richard_Nabavi · August 2018

rottenborough said:
2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.

.. and the second favourite...

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

FPT

williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.

All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.

AlastairMeeks · August 2018

Richard_Nabavi said:

rottenborough said:
2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.
.. and the second favourite...

And the joint third favourites?

Richard_Nabavi · August 2018

AlastairMeeks said:

Richard_Nabavi said:

rottenborough said:
2nd. Like Hunt or Javid.
.. and the second favourite...
And the joint third favourites?

One of them at least.

Edit: Actually I don't think Javid is a lay at those odds, I was trolling @rottenborough. Hunt, Gove and Javid are all possible. Boris is unlikely but can't be excluded; however, those odds are too short. Then there's a longer tail of more speculative possibilities amongst the cabinet.

Mexicanpete · August 2018

MarqueeMark said:
Like Bannon and Arron Banks are Boris's only backers....

(Corbynesque eye-roll....)

... and Mr Yaxley-Lennon!

TOPPING · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.

I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

ExiledInScotland · August 2018

I think OGH means the person most popular with the members of the Tory Party. Banks and Bannon are irrelevant

TOPPING · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.

Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.

Benpointer · August 2018

Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
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williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.

No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.

Mortimer · August 2018

Benpointer said:
Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.

Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?

AlastairMeeks · August 2018

Some at least are answering the call to entryism:

https://twitter.com/micky_norcross/status/1030131476099215361?s=21

Mortimer · August 2018

I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

rottenborough · August 2018

https://twitter.com/AmIRightSir/status/1030166760190865408

Vaguely remember him as a regular on QT back in the day.

TOPPING · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
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williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.

No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.

Benpointer · August 2018

Mortimer said:

Benpointer said:
Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.
Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?

Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...

I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.

rottenborough · August 2018

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.

What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?

AlastairMeeks · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.

In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.

rottenborough · August 2018

Is it me, but tweet links don't appear. Another Vanilla moment?

Mortimer · August 2018

Benpointer said:

Mortimer said:

Benpointer said:
Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.
Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.

Yep. It doesn’t reflect well.

Big_G_NorthWales · August 2018

Benpointer said:

Mortimer said:

Benpointer said:
Any Tory MPs oppsoing BoJo in a future leadership election should just suggest their colleagues re-read chapter 30 of All Out War. That'll put paid to his campaign.
Is that the one at the party where Leadsom fails to get a tweet?
Yep. And where Johnson fails to deliver a letter, fails to write a speech, and generally fails to look like PM material.

But that is his whole personna - he will not have my vote

Mortimer · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.

Oh dear, really? What an anticlimax.

Has an embargo ever been worthy of the hype?

williamglenn · August 2018

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?

The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.

williamglenn · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.

A Stormy in a teacup.

Benpointer · August 2018

AlastairMeeks said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.

Oh, the suspense....

https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1030210103906066432

Benpointer · August 2018

rottenborough said:
Is it me, but tweet links don't appear. Another Vanilla moment?

Not working for me either.

TOPPING · August 2018

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.

Plus Trump indicted.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

AlastairMeeks said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
In which case it’s not the story I thought it might be.

I could be wrong, it does happen occasionally.

I believe it will be published at 11.05pm

Benpointer · August 2018

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.

I fear for her Maj too.

Big_G_NorthWales · August 2018

Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

A source of great joy to both of us

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Mortimer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Mortimer said:
I hope this embargoed star front page is worth the wait...
I believe it is something to do with Celebrity Big Brother.
Oh dear, really? What an anticlimax.

Has an embargo ever been worthy of the hype?

Yup.

During the Indyref we were given an embargoed poll and embargo was scheduled to end at 3.01am.

Normally embargoes are around 10pm or midnight.

I made the mistake of posting that PB would be publishing that poll, and people kept on asking me what was the poll showing.

I think it showed a 1% swing from No to Yes.

rottenborough · August 2018

Benpointer said:

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
I fear for her Maj too.

Oh dear.

However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
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williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.

No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.

Big_G_NorthWales · August 2018

rottenborough said:

Benpointer said:

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
I fear for her Maj too.
Oh dear.

However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.

Why - is Charles intent on abolishing Parliament

Benpointer · August 2018

rottenborough said:

Benpointer said:

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.
I fear for her Maj too.
Oh dear.

However, to be pedantic, her Maj going will mean a postponed GE.

Not if the (snap) GE came first.

TOPPING · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.

Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.

rottenborough · August 2018

Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

A source of great joy to both of us

There's more to life than betting...

Benpointer · August 2018

rottenborough said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

A source of great joy to both of us

There's more to life than betting...

And politics!

DecrepitJohnL · August 2018

Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

kle4 · August 2018

Yep, that makes sense. Regrettable, but it tracks. Hunt would get slaughtered up against Boris. Javid is a former remainer donchaknow, so he's untrustworthy.

Benpointer said:

rottenborough said:

Big_G_NorthWales said:
Time to bid everyone a peaceful nights rest

Grandchildren coming for sleep overs tomorrow and saturday night

And the house will resound to the wonderful - Grandma, Grandma I need you.

A source of great joy to both of us

There's more to life than betting...
And politics!

Now I know you are crazy.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

RobD · August 2018

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

"Bannon & Banks backed Boris now bookie's best bet to beat May"...

Benpointer · August 2018

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?

Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?

Edit: RobD beat me to it!

RobD · August 2018

Benpointer said:

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?
Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?

ooo, becomes. Nice!

RobD · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256

Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Told ya.

Foxy · August 2018

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!

4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19

Benpointer · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...

RobD · August 2018

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19

Infinitely more than last time

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...

I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.
Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.

What I said is correct what you said is moot.

Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.

Benpointer · August 2018

RobD said:

Benpointer said:

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?
Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?
ooo, becomes. Nice!

Yeah but I missed Bookies!

Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet.

Teamwork!

rottenborough · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.

I have only heard of Leeson.

Does that make me sad?

Foxy · August 2018

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030217993953964033?s=19

Cableism sweeping the nation. Well, Yorkshire anyway.

TOPPING · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.
Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
What I said is correct what you said is moot.

Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.

Anti-foreigner.

Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

That said, I'd be embarrassed also.

kle4 · August 2018

Benpointer said:

RobD said:

Benpointer said:

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?
Bannon & Banks backed Boris becomes best bet?
ooo, becomes. Nice!
Yeah but I missed Bookies!

Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet.

Teamwork!

Well, if you want to keep it going, if there's a time component to this it could be

Bannon/Banks backed Boris becomes bookies best bet before Brexit begins

Benpointer · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.

Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.

Danny565 · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....

kle4 · August 2018

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19

Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Liberal Democrat GAIN Knaresborough (North Yorkshire) from Conservative

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.
Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
What I said is correct what you said is moot.

Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
Anti-foreigner.

Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

That said, I'd be embarrassed also.

I'm not embarrassed. Every driver who's ever been tailgated, cut up, stuck behind someone going slow in the outside lane or whatever has dealt with jackass fellow travellers. I'm not responsible for fellow travellers. The motorway has two directions and from my experience there are absolute arsehole fellow travellers on both carriageways. Ditto a binary vote.

TheScreamingEagles · August 2018

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.

Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.

williamglenn · August 2018

Danny565 said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....

Perhaps she was simultaneously negotiating her fee to appear and her fee not to appear.

John_M · August 2018

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.
Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
What I said is correct what you said is moot.

Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
Anti-foreigner.

Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

That said, I'd be embarrassed also.

You voted the same way as Adonis and Grayling. For shame.

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

kle4 said:

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.

19 can make an Aussie senator.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6

RobD · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

kle4 said:

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
19 can make an Aussie senator.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6

PR voting systems... not even once!

YBarddCwsc · August 2018

Foxy said:
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030217993953964033?s=19

Cableism sweeping the nation. Well, Yorkshire anyway.

Well, the posh bit of Yorkshire, anyway.

No_Offence_Alan · August 2018

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19

22% swing from Lab to Con.

Philip_Thompson · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.

Cheers.

Benpointer · August 2018

williamglenn said:

Danny565 said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

I thought Stormy Daniels was meant to be in it....
Perhaps she was simultaneously negotiating her fee to appear and her fee not to appear.

What's with the headline if she's not in it?

Benpointer · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.

OK thanks - not sure I'm going to bother filing that nugget in my diminishing mental memory cache though.

Sunil_Prasannan · August 2018

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.

[after allowing the simulated Tory majority to be destroyed]

TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
TSE: Granted.
THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
TSE: And why not?
THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
THERESA: No sir. It has not.
TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.

kle4 · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

kle4 said:

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
19 can make an Aussie senator.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6

Ha, what a calamitous turn of events.

But in fairness it's 19 more votes than anyone in our Upper Chamber has received!

(Technically untrue - new Hereditary peers have to be elected in by their fellows. I'll never forget the one with 7 candidates but only 3 eligible voters. I believe that was the one where Viscount Thurso got back in.)

Sunil_Prasannan · August 2018

williamglenn said:

rottenborough said:

TOPPING said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
It'll be a quiet September.

I'll be editing PB for most of September whilst Mike is on holiday.
Excellent I'm on Jezza out in September at 10s.
What about May?

Odds on a double defenestration?

That's like an accumulator at the races isn't it?
The full "Mike holiday special" has to be three new party leaders, a second referendum and a GE.

Hopefully the "Mike Holiday Special" is nothing like the "Star Wars Holiday Special".

Benpointer · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:
FPT
williamglenn said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Philip_Thompson said:

TOPPING said:

Mortimer said:

Scott_P said:
The headbangers are planning another bus tour to sell Brexit. Again.
Have Remainers forgotten that they lost to a bus last time?
They didn't lose to a bus. They lost to the anti-immigration rhetoric of the leave campaign.
No they didn't.
Ask HYUFD about the polling.
The polling shows that anti immigration rhetoric didn't win 52% of the vote.
You might as well say that people who care about the curvature of bananas were the key swing voters.
All 17.4 million votes counted. There were no key swing voters there were simply more voters than for Remain.
I perfectly understand that you feel embarrassed that it was the anti-foreigner vote wot won it but that's what you hitched your wagon to.
No I hitched my wagon to leaving the EU. The rest is secondary. 17 4 million voters went for Leave unless they were all anti immigration alone then that isn't what won it.
No anti-foreigner vote = no Leave. Those are your bedfellows.
No 17.4m votes = No leave.

All the voters matter. All of them.
Mathematically wrong.

Pro-sovereignty + Pro-free trade + Pro-no EU regulations - anti-foreigner = no Leave.
What I said is correct what you said is moot.

Anti foreigner - pro sovereignty - pro free trade - pro-no EU regulations = no Leave.

Leave didn't win because of anti-foreignors alone. If all Leave had was that it would have lost. Leave won because it got a coalition of voters that exceeded Remains coalition. It won because of every single one of the 17.4 million people who put their X in the Leave box. All of them.
Anti-foreigner.

Your fellow travellers. Suck it up.

That said, I'd be embarrassed also.
I'm not embarrassed. Every driver who's ever been tailgated, cut up, stuck behind someone going slow in the outside lane or whatever has dealt with jackass fellow travellers. I'm not responsible for fellow travellers. The motorway has two directions and from my experience there are absolute arsehole fellow travellers on both carriageways. Ditto a binary vote.

@Topping He is embarrassed.

Sunil_Prasannan · August 2018

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.

Hardeep Singh Kohli is the Scottish Sikh bloke.

Sunil_Prasannan · August 2018

And Chloe Ayling was allegedly kidnapped in Italy last year.

edmundintokyo · August 2018

RobD said:

Philip_Thompson said:

kle4 said:

Foxy said:

RobD said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Gwynfi (Neath Port Talbot) result:

IND (Jones): 57.8% (+13.8)
PC: 15.7% (+15.7)
LAB: 12.9% (-43.1)
IND (Joshua): 9.7% (+9.7)
IND (Paul): 3.0% (+3.0)
CON: 0.9% (+0.9)

Independent GAIN from Labour.

Turnout: 51.3%

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030215702735712256
Look at that CON surge. Up by infinite percent!
4 votes!

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1030216517051449344?s=19
Don't you need 10 names on your nomination papers? Yeesh.
19 can make an Aussie senator.

https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/19-people-got-this-bloke-a-200k-job/news-story/f8d8aaa83f0c2bcab53626455a3698d6
PR voting systems... not even once!

Kind of buries the lede that the party he represented got a quarter of a milllion votes, and that's why they got two candidates in.

I wonder how many votes British MPs would get if you had the option to vote for their party at the top instead of picking an individual.

rottenborough · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
Cheers.

I went to the Cheers bar once.

Norm wasn't there, but I had a beer anyway.

Benpointer · August 2018

Sunil_Prasannan said:
And Chloe Ayling was allegedly kidnapped in Italy last year.

I like the self-fulfilling fact that one of them is a 'Reality Star'

viewcode · August 2018

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.

Oh dear God, your education is lacking. It's Kirstie Alley. She had a large role in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan. She played a Vulcan called Saavik.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tWmSckE40

williamglenn · August 2018

“Voice of Europe”, a major promoter of pro-Brexit stories, is shutting down.
https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1030173243142021121?s=21

RobD · August 2018

williamglenn said:
“Voice of Europe”, a major promoter of pro-Brexit stories, is shutting down.
https://twitter.com/letsgomathias/status/1030173243142021121?s=21

Major promoter? Haven't heard of them before today...

viewcode · August 2018

Philip_Thompson said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:

Benpointer said:

TheScreamingEagles said:
Told ya.

My money's on Nick Leeson! Oh...
I've only heard of three of them, but one of them is a Star Trek legend.
Ok I've bitten... Which one is the Star Trek legend?

PS I've only heard of two - Nick and Jermaine.
Kirstie Alley.

She played Saavik in The Wrath of Khan.
Cheers.

She was also in "Cheers"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDjTpJKoRc

viewcode · August 2018

Quick check: is this news article plausible?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/a-new-leak-reveals-84-areas-of-british-life-the-uk?utm_term=.egGYpoQGw#.jxDyjb4J8

williamglenn · August 2018

“It’s time to relaunch the Brexit campaign”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/16/time-stop-betrayal-people-relaunch-brexit-campaign/

ExiledInScotland · August 2018

Sunil_Prasannan said:

[after allowing the simulated Tory majority to be destroyed]

TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
TSE: Granted.
THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
TSE: And why not?
THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
THERESA: No sir. It has not.
TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.

In the Tory Party reboot, we see the scenario from the viewpoint of the one man who beat it:

TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
TSE: That's Okay?
JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
JOHNSON: Alert the press.
JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
JOHNSON: I understand.
JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
JAVID: Of course not.
(the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
JRM: Yes, sir.
JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
JOHNSON: Are they?
JAVID: No. They're not.
JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
(the FTAS are easily signed)
JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
[Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
TSE: I do not know.

viewcode · August 2018

ExiledInScotland said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
TSE: Granted.
THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
TSE: And why not?
THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has that never occurred to you?
THERESA: No sir. It has not.
TSE: How we deal with Brexit is at least as important as how we deal with life, wouldn't you say?
THERESA: As I indicated, Admiral, that thought had not occurred to me.
TSE: Well, now you have something new to think about. Carry on.
TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
TSE: That's Okay?
JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
JOHNSON: Alert the press.
JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
JOHNSON: I understand.
JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
JAVID: Of course not.
(the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
JRM: Yes, sir.
JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
JOHNSON: Are they?
JAVID: No. They're not.
JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
(the FTAS are easily signed)
JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
[Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
TSE: I do not know.

So you two are arguing using Star Trek Prime and Kelvin Timeline pastiches against each other.

Which would make it the [pause, deep breath] Star Trek Wars!

Pause.

Ah, my coat...

Sunil_Prasannan · August 2018

viewcode said:

ExiledInScotland said:

Sunil_Prasannan said:

TSE: Well, Mrs May, are you going to stay with the sinking ship?
THERESA: Permission to speak candidly, sir?
TSE: Granted.
THERESA: I don't believe this was a fair test of my Prime Ministerial abilities.
TSE: And why not?
THERESA: Because ...there was no way to win the 2017 election.
TSE: A no-win situation is a possibility every PM may face. Has t.
TSE: Well Prime Minister, Barnier and Juncker have entered the room and are locking their arguments on us.
JOHNSON (for it is he): That's Okay.
TSE: That's Okay?
JOHNSON: Yes, don't worry about it.
PB MEMBERS: Did he just say don't worry about it? Is he not taking this negotiation seriously?
JAVID: Merkel, Macron and Varadker have arrived and they are targeting our strategy. I don't suppose that’s a problem either?
JRM: They’re making proposals to turn us into a vassal state, Prime Minister.
JOHNSON: Alert the press to prepare to announce successful Brexit.
SOUBRY: And how do you expect us to do that while we’re not part of EFTA?
JOHNSON: Alert the press.
JAVID: Our credibility is being hit. Border integrity at 60%.
JOHNSON: I understand.
JAVID: Well should we, I don't know, make proposals back?
JOHNSON: No. (he drinks a cup of tea)
JAVID: Of course not.
(the power of project fear seems to go out for a second)
PB MEMBERS: What is this? What's going on?
JOHNSON: Hmm... notify the WTO that we endorse and accept all the FTAs which the EU has already ratified, and prepare to send ambassadors to the EU countries.
JRM: Yes, sir.
JAVID: Prime Minister, their tariffs are still up.
JOHNSON: Are they?
JAVID: No. They're not.
JOHNSON: Send the ambassadors. One FTA each should do it, so don't waste civil servants.
JRM: Sessions agreed with all countries. Meetings held.
(the FTAS are easily signed)
JRM: All tariffs destroyed, Captain.
JOHNSON: Begin rescue of the Tory Party credibility. So, we've managed to eliminate all EU interference in our national life, no one important was injured, and the successful rescue of the British economy is underway.
[Under the WTO Most Favoured Nations, (MFN), regulations, the EU cannot refuse the UK the same, best terms afforded to any other nation with which it has a Free Trade Agreement]
PB MEMBERS: How the hell did that ******* beat your test?
TSE: I do not know.
So you two are arguing using Star Trek Prime and Kelvin Timeline pastiches against each other.

Which would make it the [pause, deep breath] Star Trek Wars!

Pause.

Ah, my coat...

"TSE isn't from my Universe. He's from yours!"

IanB2 · August 2018

RobD said:

DecrepitJohnL said:
Anyone else sense OGH struggling to avoid alliteration in his tweet?
"Bannon & Banks backed Boris now bookie's best bet to beat May"...

A clever way to make you think about the adjective that isn't there.

IanB2 · August 2018

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