Regular users will notice that we’ve changed the design of the site. Thanks to my son Robert and his partner, Lucille, for the work they’ve done. The new masthead features pictures of the US President, the possible challengers for next time, the three main UK party leaders and politicians we think might play a future leadership role. For Labour Gordon Brown is obvious but, a bit with a tongue in our cheeks we’ve chosen Boris Johnson for the Tories and…
Punters should hold their nerve on John Kerry After the euphoria of the Boston Convention John Kerry has been moving in and out of favourite position in the UK as the polls have reported differing messages on the impact of his formal nomination last week. We stick by our CALL on Kerry, first made nearly three months ago and repeated nearly twenty times since but we think that it’s going to be a tough August for the Democrat contender. Betting…
PoliticalBetting.Com was established by Mike Smithson to provide a discussion platform and an information service for political gamblers and others keenly interested in the electoral processes and forecasting outcomes. For 13 years Mike was a journalist with BBC News and was part of the team in the mid-1970s that handled the first Broadcasting of Parliament experiment. This was followed by regular stints at Westminster. In 1977 he ousted Denis McShane, the current Foreign Office Minister, as the National Executive member…