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WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

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(You can see that I'm on to a winner)

 

I’ll tell you a true story and I think you’ll find it funny.

I’d gone into the bookies where I often part with money.

I fancied a quick flutter as occasionally I do

On the Referendum we’ll soon have on the EU.

Although I’ll vote for “STAY” myself, cos that’s what I believe

I rather think the stupid British will decide to leave.

And having faith in Old John Bull and all those silly sods

I thought it worth me finding out the bookies with best odds.

I’d seen the odds were 5/2 the Saturday before

But thought since Boris had his say they might close in some more.

The woman at the counter in BetFred’s den of vice

Looked up at me and so I said, “I’d like to know a price”.

“What on?” she asked, suspecting I was being sly and cunning;

“The EU Referendum”.  She said, “What time is it running?”

◄ BORIS THE BIDER

YGGDRASIL ►

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John Coopey

Sun 28th Feb 2016 21:04

As ever, MC, I respect your viewpoint. The real strength of our society is that we will decide this matter in the ballot box.

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M.C. Newberry

Sun 28th Feb 2016 17:52

JC - I always appreciate the restraint and even-handed
nature of your responses - especially on an emotive vital topic like the EU Referendum - IN or OUT.
I caught (on TV) the recent lecture in favour of "OUT"
given by former Tory minister and Grandee Lord Lawson
- who now lives in France! It was quietly and cogently
delivered - and, to me, most convincing in its considerations of past and present...and why we should
say goodbye.
There is no real reason why the future of the UK
should be guided by an EU which thinks itself the centre
of the world (very far from it) and limits our national self-determination and wider trading potential within its
own framework. It has no defence position unlike NATO
even while it makes no bones about its own army and
a police force that will not accommodate complaints.
Who would invest in a supra-national business that allowed no access of inspection to its accounts and
ran a security set-up that did not tolerate any
come back about its behaviour?
OK - off my soap box.
Cheers.

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John Coopey

Sun 28th Feb 2016 08:43

A defensible interpretation of our past, MC, but not in my view a viable blueprint for our future.

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M.C. Newberry

Sat 27th Feb 2016 21:13

Information and misinformation...or black ops. in action.
JC - I've followed the creation of the current EU closely -
with increasing resentment at its transformation from
the trading enterprise we originally thought we were
joining via the cunningly crafted change to political
entity. Government of a single nation demands the
most rigorous attention from its electorate and the idea
that this sea-faring powerhouse with a matchless
history of setting out and achieving wealth and influence
through its buccaneers, explorers, merchant venturers, evangelists and armed forces that remains unequalled -
should hand its sovereignty and trading decisions to
those stay-at-homes, failed dictatorships and the rest
who now strut the EU stage with our billions to fund
their inadequacies, is. frankly, grossly insulting in its
betrayal of everything that UK Ltd. achieved against
all the odds in the past.
Scaremongering would like us to believe we couldn't
succeed again - so yah-boo-sucks to those nay-
sayers in their tax-relief banks and business offices and
the troops of yes-men at their financial beck and call.
As for the SNP and their pro-EU position...let us
remember their historical affinity with "abroad" from
centuries ago - AND their attempts to forge alliances
with Nazi Germany during WW2 (Public Record at Kew)
- and think on that when they trot out their
self-serving spiel now. The Nazis, it has to be said,
didn't exactly take their wartime overtures (made
to their man across the sea in Dublin!) - too seriously!
Sovereignty rules - and let the devil take the rest!!

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John Coopey

Fri 26th Feb 2016 18:21

What I find difficult, MC, is that for every persuasive argument for staying there is an equally persuasive counter argument for leaving; and vice versa.
The only given for me is that we know what STAY looks like. (We may like it or not). We don't know what LEAVE looks like.

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M.C. Newberry

Fri 26th Feb 2016 17:58

As the saying goes: this will run and run...well, to June
at least!
As for us stupid British (English as in Nelson's day!), we
are content to remember the words of Thomas
Jefferson who was on the winning side in a certain war
for independence around 200 hundred years ago.
""Any nation that gives up its freedom in pursuit of
economic advantage deserves to lose both."
NATO preserves our military alliances, and thus our defence. The EU is merely a planned presumption
seeking steroid-like proportions of influence where it has
no mandate - and never did. Grocer Heath and his
succcessors maintained the deceit, dissembling and
lack of truth to ensure that the fabrication continued.
Churchill's Labour successor Clement Attlee (later
Earl Attlee) was a vigorous opponent of what he saw as a betrayal of our Commonwealth wartime allies when
the original Common Market was proposed. How innocent those words sound in the light of what was
being set up for the "softly softly catchee monkey"
transformation into a political entity with its own planned
army and unaccountable police force.
Not an attractive picture for this of all nations.

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John Coopey

Fri 26th Feb 2016 15:34

Harry, this is really only half the tale. After I'd repeated, "No, the referendum" a few times, she then said, "Ah, the football".
I sometimes think that those Victorians were right to oppose emancipation to the unwashed!

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Harry O'Neill

Fri 26th Feb 2016 14:56


I like the way you`ve `immortalised` that one John (all grist to your Yorkshire mill )

At least there will be long enough to let some unpalatable home truths sink into psyche`s of some of the `Land of hope and glory` opportunists.

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