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Emitt Evan Baker 06-09-2017 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by John Whitworth (Post 393788)
Should we not have a thread on this? I will be in Trumpland of course but be assured I shall vote postally. The forms are on the way. Present polls give the divine Theresa a majority of 100 seats over everyone else i.e. more power than any Tory since I don't know when.

Ahhhhh, the wonder of the science of polling. And the eventual rising of our children. Salut!

John Isbell 06-09-2017 12:33 PM

Apparently Theresa May is vowing to stay on. So, there's that.

Cheers,
John

In other news, DT's White House staff don't know whether he has tapes or not.

Emitt Evan Baker 06-09-2017 12:37 PM

They are in the process of editing...I mean finding them.

Brian Allgar 06-09-2017 12:55 PM

John, forgive me if I quote a few of your remarks and predictions over the last few weeks:

Mrs May will win even more easily because her opponents are all political idiots.

A whole sheaf of opinion polls are predicting 400 Tory seats and an overall majority of 150.

Theresa seems on course for a majority so huge even I wonder whether it is altogether a good thing.

The big day will probably end with a Tory majority of over 200.

I just have to add today that the latest opinion polls in the UK give the Tories 49% and Labour 27%. This would give Theresa an overall majority over all parties of around 170 seats.

Forgive me, too, if I snigger slightly, but ever so politely.

I must admit that even I feel a certain pity for Theresa May having to grovel before a bunch of riff-raff in order to make a shabby deal that will enable her to cling desperately to power.

Brian Allgar 06-09-2017 01:07 PM

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Originally Posted by John Isbell (Post 397228)
In other news, DT's White House staff don't know whether he has tapes or not.

John, Trump's doctors confirm that he does indeed have tapeworms, but it's not sure that they were able to record anything useful.

Roger Slater 06-09-2017 01:08 PM

Brian, you're not being fair to John. His predictions turned out to be wrong, but he expressed them with humility and deference to the possibility that other intelligent people whom he respects could well see things differently.

Michael Cantor 06-09-2017 01:26 PM

You can brag all you want, Brian, but I think that it's still obvious that (a) our President is dumber, less informed, more corrupt, and more self-involved than any Prime Minister or member of royalty (including the Duke of Windsor, who at least had the good graces to leave) England has ever known, going all the way back to Ethelred the Iambic; and (b) he's very proud of it.

Mary McLean 06-09-2017 01:30 PM

Ah John, I thought of you when I heard Canterbury has gone Labour. This is all a bit of a car crash, but I can't help giggling. If she couldn't win big, I'm sure Mrs May would have preferred to have lost so that Brexit would be Jeremy's problem. What next for us all?

Brian Allgar 06-09-2017 01:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Roger Slater (Post 397232)
Brian, you're not being fair to John. His predictions turned out to be wrong, but he expressed them with humility and deference to the possibility that other intelligent people whom he respects could well see things differently.

Of course he did, Bob. How could I have overlooked that? I am justly rebuked.

Brian Allgar 06-09-2017 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Cantor (Post 397234)
You can brag all you want, Brian, but I think that it's still obvious that (a) our President is dumber, less informed, more corrupt, and more self-involved than any Prime Minister or member of royalty (including the Duke of Windsor, who at least had the good graces to leave) England has ever known, going all the way back to Ethelred the Iambic; and (b) he's very proud of it.

Michael, I wouldn't dream of denying it. At the time of the Brexit vote, the UK took the lead in the Cretins' Olympics, but in the end, America took the gold medal.


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