Mixed feelings on this one. She doesn’t, as far as I know, dodge any of her dues.
At the same time, all betting companies literally make their money from losers, always in greater supply when magical thinking beats present realities.
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It’s pretty shocking how ubiquitous advertising for gambling companies has become. That’s thrown into even starker relief when you realise that just one of them can afford to pay it’s CEO £469 million a year out of it’s profits.
I know for a fact that at least one of those companies, probably all, will close your account if it is “unprofitable”.
The house always wins.
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No such thing as a poor bookie.
PS, does anyone know if she is married? Asking for a friend.
Mate, you’ve no chance. That woman has an entourage that follows her about. I think where her firm really did well is making it online only.
All you need to know about bookmaking can be found in one sentence.
They take bets on WWE!
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Betfair do this.
I’m guessing they all do it. I really enjoyed the day to day of being in a big gambling firm. I’ve never worked with a more capable team.
But yeah, that notion of a cheeky harmless little bet disappears real fast.
Seems like my Tom Cruise in Cocktail moment will have to wait …
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Keir lines 'em up. Twitter knocks 'em down.
Wrote this on Facebook. Still can’t quite believe the front of Sir Keir. Savile wasn’t the only ball he dropped. The Rochdale grooming gang wasn’t getting prosecuted until the decision not to prosecute was overridden at the regional level.
Boasting about putting terrorists away, the plum. That was part of his fucking job!
He also sought the extradition of an autistic teenager for hacking the US to look for evidence of UFO’s.
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I would suggest you be a little careful when poking a barrister.
I’m poking his record as DPP, and it’s a fair poke.
Keir saying he’s good on law and order is a bit like the Titanic captain saying he’s good at spotting icebergs, except for that one time.
Besides, he’ll have plenty of people to go through before he gets to me, not all of them as careful 
Just call him Keith then you can claim mistaken identity.
It’s too late and I’ve done far worse
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I am genuinely having trouble thinking of a worse Labour leader. I’ve mentioned this before but he doesn’t seem to know what to oppose and is getting out-flanked to the left by Rishi Sunak.
Wasn’t much made of this at the time, so I’m glad the article mentions it. What kind of Labour leader opposes a raise on Corporation Tax? Especially when ours is so low?
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Hes a politician. He only supports what his backers want, not what is needed, as they all do these days.
Allegedly
There’s a theory that he’s not really there to do anything else apart from say “Corbyn and his influence are gone from the Labour Party”.
The problem is, that’s a lot of Labour’s base. Whatever you want to say about Corbyn’s time, it was well funded by the grassroots. The surge in membership put the party’s finances in the black for the first time in decades, diminishing the power of both unions and private donors.
That’s all gone now. Keir has to manage two very different sets of funding sources. Unite have already cut the amount of cash they’re giving him due to the Corbyn debacle and he hasn’t managed to get many high paying donors either.
Everyone seems to know he’s not the real deal apart from him.
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