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A rare visit to a bookies (Hills) today to place a cash wager at 12/1 Labour to win 500 or more seats. Reasonable value I reckon with Reform now likely to split the Conservative vote more severely with Farage back in charge; though to counter that Labour's chances of regaining the 'Red Wall'...

Oh 'hopper do stay, I was looking forward to you replying - with a liberal sprinkling of anglo-saxon oaths - to my request for the Jock contingent here to offer views on the SNP and the fat man I know you hold in such high esteem;) Oldtimer ain't a newbie, he was in Wolf's clothing here, and in...

What do the Scottish correspondents on here make of the SNP's chances at the GE? It would appear to this sassenach that they're in for a damned good thrashing (deserved?) mainly by Labour Is the unpleasant little fat man standing anywhere for his Alba outfit?

10.5 No Overall Majority (11.0 now) makes a semblance of appeal as does the near-related contingency of 7.0 Labour to win 300-349 seats which covers the 'magic' overall majority figure of 326 I've an inkling the Liberal Democrats will do very well and win 50+ seats, mainly across the south...

Bread and Circuses - Juvenal, Roman Poet circa 100AD Soma and Feelies - Huxley, Brave New World 1931AD They knew nowt's new

Ah, the Stiff Tours of blessed memory. I went to one in Leeds in sometime during the '78-'79 Winter of Discontent featuring Elvis Costello and John Cooper-Clarke amongst others As for that day the universe changed on Friday 4th May 1979 I spent a large part of it crawling the pubs on West...

Suggesting National Service for 18 year olds shortly after the opposing team has suggested voting for 16-17 year olds is today's daily gaff, and probably the best one so far 'Who do you think you are kidding Mr Sunak' However, while the idea of re-introducing National Service in its original...

A Lockinge that remains vivid was Lester Piggott's win on Polar Falcon in 1991, beating the 1/2 fav In The Groove Just four runners and Piggott deliberately dwelt in the stalls ensuring he'd get a good lead; that being mine and the consensus opinion anyway In last all the way he pulled Polar...

Just light showers overnight here in York, which ceased an hour ago to leave an overcast sky There seems to be some uncertainty about how far north the heavier rain currently sweeping the south will get, but my pinecone and seaweed is forecasting a dry, cloudy afternoon Going largely the same...

Is that Clay Cross's finest John Lowe, the 'gentleman of darts' ? Saw him in Marks and Spencer, Sheffield circa 1985

Why thankyou Orthopterid, hope you're still snatching pebbles Jack o' the Green Let's float Upstream

This thread was also posted to TRF and Alan Potts, being a member there, has replied to say he's returned to betting on-course with king cash Proper punting that: '1000/120 the 3 horse please' Shame that these ersatz plastic notes inflicted on us are distinctly unfoldable and unthumbable :)

Marb, off topic, but why are you still a 'Journeyman' after 7,438 posts? Have you not written a winner yet? :)

Form Study or Maths? Form Study and Maths surely: those two disciplines are hardly mutually exclusive The form student ploughing through 'data' viz the analysis of races is - knowingly or not - employing some maths: the interpretation of third-party ratings and fluid handicap marks, the 'true'...

By the way, hope you're in good form Marb and that life's treating you kindly

I really couldn't give a toss about the fate of the Tories post-election, and have not given any thought to what the phoenix will look like should one rise from what will hopefully be a furnaced pyre of fused ashes. Depends to an extent on how well Reform do at the GE I guess Labour will...

Yep, still a resident of the wapentake The Selby and Ainsty parliamentary constituency was famously taken by Labour in a recent by-election: the MP Keir Mather is just 26 and a fine young fella. Unfortunately the constituency is being abolished for the next general election and the name Ainsty...

It's close to Racing Green RGB 0,66,37 https://www.color-hex.com/color/004225 Perhaps with a little more Green, say RGB 0,75,37

Sagittarius and my name is Drone Sometime poster and longtime lurker Does a guy called Warbler still post here? Something of a politics guru with many interesting posts on Chit-Chat

Good to see you too littlefeat; your posts thus far on this shiny new board have been pleasingly polite...which is nice In big fields of convivial talking horses garrulous amateur riders bruised from being thrown can cause much trouble in running. Aged taciturn apprentices are wise enough to...