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And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. Agree that the electoral college system is daft, but our system can also throw up equally odd results. Most recent case being General Election 1951 - Labour won more votes than the Conservatives, yet the Conservatives won 26 more seats and a...

India go for the other extreme... 1.3billion people, 790 MPs - so about 1.6million each. Extrapolated, that'd give the UK about 38 MPs. Sorted.

Real reason Cameron has quit is fairly obvious. Didn't want to become Ted Heath Part II (and no, I don't mean THOSE allegations)... Heath was defeated for the leadership in 1975 and clung on to a seat until 2001, having a 26-year-long sulk. Then again, historically it wasn't that unusual for...

Be interesting to see the buy rate. Bar the special attraction of Punk, outside of the main event it was pretty mediocre.

Props to Punk for getting in the cage, but can't imagine he made anywhere near the millions he was pulling in previously.

Oddly, I got to see the first "web server" when I visited CERN. It's hard to relate a simple box to the impact it has had. Then again, Sir Tim himself would probably admit he was only attempting to find a way for scientists to quickly share visual data. The internet itself had been around for...

Yes, it's now getting ludicrous. Sure, he can get lots of people to rallies but if they are the only ones who will ever back him, it's not enough. Nowhere near. I'm half convinced the Labour Party is basically dead with him as leader. And that isn't good for anyone. In many ways I should be...

It's all hard to work out. If farmers produced the actual amount needed for consumption, the cost would shoot up, leaving those on the breadline worse off! Lots of it is education. Take a bag of onions, which can be used in however many meals, stick them in the bottom thr fridge and they will...

Went to an interesting meeting about food production and waste last year (it was interesting, honest!) as for my sins I'm a member of a county-wide waste group. Quite amazing how many basic foods farmers are forced to grow aren't the ones that they can get the biggest crop from, but the ones...

So how low can Corbyn take them? @ICMResearch: @Conservatives 43% @UKLabour 27% @LibDems 8% @UKIP 13% @theSNP 4% @TheGreenParty 4% @Plaid_Cymru

Absolutely, Labour lost under a fairly centrist leader because people felt he was too left wing and they reacted by handing the leadership to Wolfie. Politics is shifting hugely. The Labour membership is dominated by London-dwelling middle class types who are so far removed the the origin of...

And his in competition sample also returned positive...

Off topic but amusing (admittedly probably not true) story I once heard. Patrick Stewart apparently wanted a role on Emmerdale but the cast threatened to walk out as he'd ahow their acting ability up!

List of MMA drug test failures, pretty much covers all but very small promotions: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15j2jFlHHcc9Wz4Os47WHHTwy_G4KalHc7N-otkhdEB4/htmlview?pli=1

Which is my point, I know that and you know that but many people assume Road Tax exists. Obviously it hasn't for almost a century. And BB, I'm no righty Republican, more a socially liberal libertarian who prefers less state control and more personal freedom with the caveat those in real need...

Tax is just odd when you think about it. Many people think "Road Tax" is ring fenced for road repairs and building. Hasn't been since the 30s! And what logic is there in having more than one rate of income tax? Making it flat surely makes sense so people just pay a proportion of earnings...

I've downloaded it purely so I can help my daughters if they want to play it. Honest.

Think most sensible folk would prefer a divided island at relative peace than risk the alternative. Romantically myself, I hope if things remain "good" for a generation or two, the divide will become history rather than something with keeps younger people fighting for something they don't...

That's a good question. I was a leave voter who has no problem with the free movement of people. I hope we end up as part of the single market, allowing free movement of people but without the extra layer of bureaucracy of MEPs etc. Having trade agreements and free movement is great. Having...

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