It’s quite amazing just how many UK citizens bet on last week’s general elections, considered one of the closest in this generation. I found it highly amusing to find the huge range of betting choices offered to punters who were trying to make a quick buck out of this event. These include the bet on whether Gordon Brown would fire the assistant whom he accused of causing the biggest election gaffe in history when he called a voter a bigot. Never mind that Brown did the name-slinging – the guy is after the head of Susan Nye who introduced the PM to the voter… All in all, Britons bet over $60 million on these elections!!
OK, so here’s a joke doing the rounds: Gordon Brown goes on a state visit to Israel . While he is on a tour of Jerusalem he suffers a heart attack and passes away. The undertaker tells the British Diplomats accompanying him, ‘You can have him shipped home for £5,000,000, or you can bury him here, in the Holy Land , for just £100.’
The British Diplomats go into a corner and discuss for a minute. They come back to the undertaker and tell him they want Gordon shipped home.
The undertaker is puzzled and asks, ‘Why would you spend £5,000,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only £100? With the money you save you could help pay back some of the deficit, help pay for the Olympic Games or help the elderly’.
The British Diplomats replied, ‘Two thousand years ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. We just can’t take the risk.’
