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davidjay wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:37 pm By running them. The ball is never dead so you could run at any time but you could be caught out off the nets - from memory the courts (for want of a better word) were bigger than an ordinary practice net so placing ground shots was possible. I think you got two points for every run and five deducted for a wicket. Actually I think it was eight a side, everyone bowled two overs and each pair of batmen batted for four overs regardess of how many times you were out.

I still can't visualise that. Wouldn't the ball have got stuck in the net a lot? It's hard enough to place the ball in a gap in the game on the video. Wouldn't the batsmen keep getting hit by fielders throwing the ball in?

It's probably easier just to agree that Botham's a cunt.

A perfectly normal comment from a member of a perfectly normal government.

He actually put down a written qyestion in February, This is the sort of out of the box thinking he's capable of.

To ask His Majesty's Government how many people aged (1) 20–30, (2) 31–40, (3) 41–50, (4) 51–60, (5) 61–75, and (6) 76 and over, were prosecuted in (a) 2021, (b) 2022, and (c) 2023, for non-payment of their TV licences.

His first for nearly 3 years. No speeches since Nov 2020.

davidjay wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:01 pm A perfectly normal comment from a member of a perfectly normal government.

Why would we be proud? It’s not like anyone had any hand in continental drift.

I assume it’s some garbled take on us being proud of our island nation, only filtered through someone thicker than the ground-up version of his nickname.

That's a worrying statement from a man who completed several sponsored walks form John O'groats to Land's End.

One wonders whether the whacky baccy, batting without a helmet and more recently electrocuting his feet are upsetting the remaining grey cells.

It reminds me of Del Boy waxing lyrical about Britain. . . . “This septic isle”.

His voting record is interesting.

https://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id ... howall=yes

Look at all those "rebellions". They aren't really that because there's no whip, it just means that he's voting differently to the Crossbenchers who are generally sane people (even if they're wary of defeating the government too often). I reckon Botham's "rebellion" is unlikely to be coming from the liberal left. And a quick glance suggests he's voting with the Tories on these.

Funny how he was a very frequent attender at first then stopped bothering.