well, another failed foray into the world of turf accountants for me, or moi, look you see. that's just about the whole story there, but since we are here you can read on if you like.
as some of you will be quite aware, recently we here in the UK have had some interesting times on the political landscape. for those reading a legend of future pass, well, 2022 turned out to be quite a sh!tshow for us, what with (at time of writing) three (3) different prime ministers.
the fall of the second of these, the much admired, respected and celebrated Liz Truss, saw some speculate or consider that our third leader of the year may well be a return to the first. yes, Boris. it was widely reported that, on hearing Boris had been removed, the main backers (ie those who donate money) of the party made it clear that they expected him to be back in office by the time of the next election, so the idea didn't seem that outlandish. obviously stupid, yes, but outlandish, sadly not.
going on just how ludicrous our political situation has become i decided to test the potential of this one with a wager. a bet, if you like. whereas i perhaps don't have vast sums of coins to squander on trivial, or silly, bets, i figured sticking a quid (£1) in this was vaguely amusing.
of course it failed, for Boris is not PM number 3 of this year. that's a third person, Rishi Sunak. but let me qualify that by stating he was in charge at the time of writing, and when i last looked. in the end it was a bet of a pointless nature, for within 24 hours (a day or so) of me placing it Boris announced that he was not making himself available for selection. certain speculation exists that says he declined to run purely because the newspapers he assumed would back him intended to run front pages saying that no, actually, he should not run again right now. with the emphasis on "right now".
did i stand to earn, or rather win, an excessive amount of cash if Boris had run and won? not really, not really, no. the return, or "winnings", would have been £2.75. in excess of double what i gambled, true, but then in actual (or real) terms, that money would have been worth less than the pound bet, for surely the value of our currency would have gone from bad to worse with the return of Boris.
just why did it turn out that Liz Truss lasted so short a time? a positive spin (and this is pushing it) is that they worked out (very) early on that she (putting it mildly) wasn't up to the job and so acted quite quickly to remove her. but then that leaves a question as to why oh why the appointed her in the first place. answers range from simple racism (the other choice was current incumbent Rishi), or that they so wanted Boris back that they elected the one most likely to f*** up (which they got right) and so enable a return for the unwavering popular one.
it is extremely unlikely that i shall enter the dirty, murky world of gambling on politics again. sure, yes, certainly every now and then i will make (wildly) inaccurate guesses on sports results and place a humble, simple wager on them. but let me rather leave political gambles to the grown ups.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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