A Nasty Case of Starmerroids

It's when rather than if, isn't it, Neil?

Well, you know, I mean, uh, uh, I actually, uh, hated him before it was fashionable, so I, I am finding this week quite strange.

I think I shared with you guys, um, I feel like I discovered a, a niche band, and now they, they've had their second album, they're, they're headlining Glastonbury, and everybody likes them, and I, I, I, I definitely, I definitely hated him before everyone else did.

But, um, yeah, no, the Starmer out market, I think two episodes ago I said to you that, um, I couldn't really understand why it had drifted from a, a price of around about two to five to eight to 15, um, on the basis that I didn't really get this idea that you, um, you can't change your prime minister during a war.

Um, you know, that's why we're having the argument about whether Neville Chamberlain should be replaced by badgers on the £5 note.

Um, I, I think it's fine to do that, and, and the idea that Starmer's doing such a brilliant job of keeping us out of this war, uh, which we're clearly not out of, um, I, I, I don't, I don't get any of that.

So I, I thought that the market, which had, when we recorded the last episode, had moved to Starmer being 10 to 11 to go this year, was a huge overreaction to very little happening.

Um, and, uh, I was just having a little bit more on at 10 to 11.

I haven't...

I, I, I have to confess, most of the money I got on was at eight to 15.

I didn't, I'm not gonna claim that I topped and tailed the market, but I did have a little bit at 10 to 11, and I was quickly checking it one day to think, "Shall I have some more at 10 to 11?" And suddenly the, the Mandelson extra revelations came out and, um, he, he was into eight to 15.

There was a stage on Monday where he was, uh, facing up to some pretty fast bowling from, uh, from all sides, from his own side, as well as from the opposition, um, where he, he got to about one to three to be gone this year.