Corbyn’s position is a bit lame in the age of catch-up TV The BBC is reporting that both Corbyn and TMay have accepted invites to take part in a Brexit debate. Only problem is that the former wants it to be on ITV while the latter prefers the BBC. The BBC debate would take place at 8pm a week on Sunday Saturday while ITV’s would stage it an hour later at 9pm. “Mr Corbyn claimed he preferred ITV’s bid out…
Young lawyers are given eclectic reading recommendations. I think the idea is to broaden their minds and to make them more commercially aware. Or perhaps their mentors just think they should read more. Some of the suggested reading, regrettably, includes business management books. The least scientific and most cynical books tend to be most useful in practice. I have often drawn on the early chapters of Parkinson’s Law in meetings. Who Moved My Blackberry is a how-to manual for all too…
Jacob Rees-Mogg is a second tier 18th century politician who failed to oust Theresa May and then snipes nonsense from the sidelines. He isn’t greatly respected. https://t.co/nvyoGbPHui — Ken Clarke (@MrKennethClarke) November 28, 2018 The Tory EU wars part 373
TMay is the betting favourite to overcome Labour leader Corbyn if the two clash in an TV debate on the proposed Brexit deal. The online bookmaker Betway, sides with the Prime Minster at 4/6 over Corbyn, 11/10, with the pair expected to exchange views ahead of Parliament’s vote on the Brexit deal on Tuesday 11th December. Outside of the big two, it’s the Scottish National Party that Betway believe could be involved in the debate, with leader Nicola Sturgeon just…
Now more support than oppose The big overnight Brexit news is a Survation poll for the Daily Mail conducted yesterday which is being splashed all over its front page as can be seen above. The big news is that on comparative questions there has been a significant increase in those supporting the deal compared with similar questions which were put by Survation in a poll on November 15th. Clearly this is good news for Theresa May who has started to…
This represents something of a recovery! Unlike one or two of her predecessors I am not aware that Theresa May follows political betting and the way the odds are changing. If she had have done she would have noticed about 6pm this evening the chances of her getting the brexit vote agreed before the end of the year was down to 3.3%. Since then has been something of a recovery and now on Betfair it’s trading about 14%. But we…
Her best bet now pic.twitter.com/s0QZJFCJaP — Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) November 27, 2018 Now a 28% chance on Betfair The incredible uncertainty about politics at the moment continues and now there is more speculation that Theresa May might be out this year. She could decide to go of her own accord or end up getting voted down by MPs. That of course means 48 letters on real paper to Graham Brady demanding a confidence vote. There’ve been developments on that during…
Is he the white Obama? The biggest UK political betting market continues to be the US presidential election in 2020 and overnight there have been big developments with Beto O’Rourke saying that he isn’t rulling out a bid. He had said on repeated occasions that he would not seek the Presidency at the next election but in a town hall meeting last night in his home city of El Paso he suggested that he is now open to a presidential…