You can tell a government is finished when they are constantly open to ridicule and disdain. With the UK coalition it began with Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg getting royally shafted over tuition fees (he signed a pledge not to raise it and in fact to get rid of it and promptly did the complete […]
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Poker and Politics
The General Election in the UK has just taken place and it is going to be a hung parliament which means that no one party can govern outright. This is very unusual as it means that to have a government you need to have 50% of the seats. So now the horse trading begin and […]
The Art of Collusion
Collusion is an agreement, usually secretive, which occurs between two or more persons to limit open competition by deceiving, misleading, or defrauding others of their legal rights, or to obtain an objective forbidden by law typically by defrauding or gaining an unfair advantage[citation needed]. It is an agreement among firms to divide the market, set […]
The Election Poker Tournament
Today is quite a big day in UK history because we could see the beginning of the change with the voting system used in the country’s democratic process. The reason for ths is that there is a X Factor/Strictly Come Dancing/Britains Got Talent type program on TV featuring the 3 main party leaders. Yesterday, I […]
Poker and Politics
The 3 main political players Unless you have been in Iceland recently you will have probably heard that there is an election taking place in the UK which is both interesting and fun. Fun because there is always gaffs and slips being made such as David Cameron targeting China for the attention of Polaris […]
The Daily Digest #59
http://pokerknave.com – defends the political class over the expenses claim debacle. Why is a poker playing reprobate and degenerate doing this? We need to have a class of people in which we can chuck stuff at, and, it might as well be politicians.
The Daily Digest #46
The Political Special Edition – in which the UK MP’s take leave of their senses and decide to give themselves a massive pay rise on April Fools Day. Someone has decided to sell the MP’s expenses details for £300,000, and, Barack Obama flies into the UK to save the world. We at pokerknave.com cannot knock […]