He bet on the date of the election. It's not that he could impact the date (probably) but that he knew the announcement would happen a couple of days later. So less akin to throwing a fight and more having insider information about who was going to win. To me it seems similar (tho less financially rewarding) to buying stock in a company when your role in government means you know the value is going to increase soon when a new policy is introduced.
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I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.
I mean for one, people don't always have a choice about having children if they can't access birth control.
And there are cultural pressures that mean that having children is less of a choice and more a pre-ordained stage of life.
Amen to that. If I feel hungry and I'm on my period I chomp down everything in sight because I need all I can get to sustain me
Yeah, to be fair the article's not very clear.
To be even clearer, he didn't bet on the outcome of the election, just that it would take place in July. Legally Sunak has to call an election before January 2025 but there has been a lot of speculation for the last six months about when it's going to happen. A lot of people assumed we wouldn't have an election until the autumn so Sunak's announcement a few weeks ago came as a big surprise.