The date-January 14th: The venue – a pub in Central London: The time – 6pm Thanks to the generosity of Tony Blair’s pollster, Philip Gould, we are able to announce the second Politicalbetting party. This will take place at a pub in Central London on Saturday January 14th from 6pm. The picture above shows Book Value (Philip Grant – the party organiser and the site’s stand-in editor) with Robert Smithson – my son who keeps the site going. This will…
Tory race helps push the site’s comments’ total into six figures At some point in the next 24 hours somebody is going to post a comment on the site which will be the 100,000th since PB.C came into being in March 2004. As of time of this article the total number stood at 99,679 so we are almost at the point where the total is in six figures. More than 92,000 of the postings have been made since the start…
…. …. ….but we love it really This is my last posting before my wife Jacky and I travel to our holiday cottage near Biarritz in South-West France and for the next two and a half weeks Philip Grant (Book Value) will be Politicalbetting’s guest editor. September looks like being an interesting month for political gamblers. There’s the German General Election which might not be as easy for Angela Merkel as seemed probable two or three months ago. Then there’ll…
Will Philip add to his 3,244? Book Value (Philip Grant) will be the site’s guest editor when I go on my holiday from next Friday for two and a bit weeks. Philip was one of the first ever people to write a comment on the site and I am sure that he will be shocked to hear that has made or been mentioned in the grand total of 3,244 separate contributions since then. He also took on the task of…
Is the site influencing the events it covers? The cover story of this week’s Spectator is unashamedly based on the story and discussion here on June 9th when we looked at the impact of David Cameron’s Etonian background on the Tory leadership race. Good on the magazine for giving Politicalbetting full credit unlike many other parts of the media who pick up our stories. In the article Vicki Woods describes how she has moved from her original pro-Davis position and…
The faces behind the names – all revealed tonight! With Politicalbetting users gathering in London this evening for their post-General Election party there can be little doubt that the focus of discussion will be the South Staffordshire result. Although nobody doubted that the Tories were going to win very few election-watchers stuck their necks out to forecast that Patrick Cormack would have been returned with an increased majority. Before Thursday the view of many, including me, was that this was…
An evening to see the faces behind the names Everything is now set for the Politicalbetting Post-General Election Party which takes place at a pub in Central London next Saturday night. Thanks to the generous sponsorship from IG Index and one or two other people who have made donations we have enough in the budget to pay for the room hire and the the food. Hopefully there will be enough left over for at least one free drink for every…
Just a reminder that everybody who uses the site is welcome at the Politcalbetting post-General Election party in London on Saturday June 25th. Bookvalue – also known as Philip – is handling the organisation. People of all political allegiances are welcome and it does not matter whether or not you join in the site’s discussion forums. We are being helped by a generous contribution from IG Index which should cover some of the core costs at a venue in Central…