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Marf for Wednesday and a reminder for next week

Marf for Wednesday and a reminder for next week

Reminder: PB gathering March 17th at 7pm The next PB get-together will take place on Tuesday March 17th from 7pm at the Shooting Star in Middlesex Street. As the map below shows this is just round the corner from our normal venue, Dirty Dicks. We are hoping that this will be less crowded and noisy than the pre-Christmas bash. Thanks to Fat Steve for finding the new venue. There are also plans for overnight May 7/8 – details soon.

Marf on the murder of Boris Nemtsov and details of the pre-GE15 PB gathering

Marf on the murder of Boris Nemtsov and details of the pre-GE15 PB gathering

Date for your Diary March 17th at 7pm The next PB get-together will take place on Tuesday March 17th from 7pm at the Shooting Star in Middlesex Street. As the map below shows this is just round the corner from our normal venue, Dirty Dicks. We are hoping that this will be less crowded and noisy than the pre-Christmas bash. Thanks to Fat Steve for finding the new venue. There are also plans for overnight May 7/8 – details soon.

PB gathering – Ilkley, Yorkshire: Monday July 7th 2014 starting 6.30pm

PB gathering – Ilkley, Yorkshire: Monday July 7th 2014 starting 6.30pm

The Flying Duck Ilkley As has been mentioned several times on the site the next PB get-together will be at the Flying Duck pub in the heart of Ilkley in Yorkshire. It’s in the town centre not far from the station. At that time of the evening on a Monday night it should be reasonably quiet. At the moment I have no idea who many might be attending – it could be half a dozen or several times that. The…

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PB Euro election competition winner

PB Euro election competition winner

Congratulations to Wulfrun_Phil to winning the competition, thanks to everyone who took part, and a big thank you to Mark Hopkins to setting up the website for the entries. Just a note, on the above picture, I’ve hidden the individual differences for each party column (so not to make the above picture unreadable) the total diff column is the sum of these individual columns. A link to the spreadsheet with everyone’s entries and rankings is available here. TSE

Politicalbetting.com: Ten years old today and still going strong

Politicalbetting.com: Ten years old today and still going strong

Thank you for your continued support It was on March 23rd 2004 that PB began – ten years ago today and I thought that this should be something that we should mark and celebrate. It began simply because I like talking about and making forecasts on electoral outcomes and I wanted a platform where I can could engage with like minded people. My son, Robert, was the catalyst and he’s played a huge part over the past decade handling the…

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Labour’s Falkirk problems seem to be going over many voters` heads

Labour’s Falkirk problems seem to be going over many voters` heads

Update: Labour lead at 5 – Latest YouGov/Sunday Times results 8th Nov – Con 34%, Lab 39%, LD 10%, UKIP 11%; APP -30 http://t.co/rJa0Q63eSh — YouGov (@YouGov) November 10, 2013 Today’s YouGov poll sees no change for either the Dave or Ed in the weekly well/badly ratings which many wrongly describe as approval ratings. On the specific issue of Ed Miliband’s handling of Falkirk 19‰ say he is doing well while 36% say badly. The biggest grouping, are, however, the…

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Marf on what we are not allowed to talk about and news of 2 PB gatherings

Marf on what we are not allowed to talk about and news of 2 PB gatherings

A reminder: Next Dirty Dicks do, November 20th 6.30 pm Thanks once again to Fat Steve for making the arrangements. The next PB gathering will be at the Dirty Dicks pub just across the road from Liverpool Street Station in London from 1830 on Wednesday November 20th. These have become very much a tradition and a good time is generally had by all. There’s an area at the back of the pub on the first floor that is semi-reserved for…

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