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Bad tailoring, bad planning, bad decisions - democracy (and Donny) lurches on

Day 2 of The Leger meeting

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Nick Boyd
Sep 12, 2025
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A small lithium-ion fire at a solar farm

Thursday was one of those days when we were peppering the target at Donny, but not bringing it down. In the field, you’d have needed a brace of dogs to fetch so many pricked birds and a priest to finish them off. As you can see at the end of the last missive, we did marginally better than break even. However, I actually backed them with Bet365 in small-stake doubles and trebles, so the long prices doubled my stake, but a couple of winners would have made all the difference!

With a similar absence of planning, an unexpected outcome is unravelling in political terms over at Downing Street.

KBO (Kemi Badenoch Opposing) thought she might be able to have a second go at Starmer and finish off the skewering initiated at PMQs on Wednesday. (As an aside, and I’m no fan, but that was far and away her

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