Back in 2012 when Mike Smithson first asked to be guest editor during his holiday one thing he told was one of the perks of the job was choosing the picture to accompany the articles and he was right. Apologies for the lack of a proper thread, I am exceedingly busy at work today. TSE
One of my criticisms of this government is that there’s no overarching strategy as we can see with the observation made by James Crouch of Opinium. As Mrs Thatcher (the Poll Tax) and Mrs May (the dementia tax) would attest messing with the taxation on the homes of the voters leads to unpopularity, I will not be astonished to see Labour polling in the teens after this announcement, this could be potential kite flying but once the perception is out…
Britain has a problem. Well, obviously, Britain has loads of problems. But there’s one that really bugs me, and that is the question of how we look after granny when she can no longer look after herself. The facts are stark. In 2021, there were around 11 million people aged 65+ in the UK. By 2040, that’ll hit nearly 15 million. That’s an army of silver-haired citizens, and a growing share will need residential care. The trouble? Care homes are…
For decades laying the favourite has usually been a profitable strategy when it comes to betting on the next Tory leadership election and I think it might apply to Robert Jenrick too, who is currently the favourite at 2.56 on Betfair. The problem Jenrick has is a wider problem the Tory party has, those who oversaw the Boriswave have no credibility which is why Labour and Reform have shared Jenrick’s past comments about wanting to open more asylum hotels. What…
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Ladbrokes have a couple of majority related markets. When it comes to the first market on if any party will win a majority, this isn’t a market I am plan to play at the moment. It is possible for a party to win a majority on circa 25% of the vote. I think it might be better to play the Betfair markets on the individual parties and whether they will win a majority and trade in and out accordingly. If…
Ladbrokes have put up a market on who will win the most seats at next year’s Holyrood election and it is a stunning achievement for the the SNP to be the 1/6 favourites when by the time of next year’s election they will have been in power for 19 (nineteen) years. I cannot see Sir Keir Starmer repeating his Malleus Scotnatorum performance from last year’s general election which is down to the performance of his government, I do not expect…
Over the next couple of weeks we’re making some behind-the-scenes changes to [Politicalbetting’s plumbing. The short version: we’re moving the site behind Cloudflare, the world’s most widely used network for keeping websites fast, reliable, and resilient when people make outrageous claims about the benefits of pineapple on pizza. The process has three steps: first, we’ll move our DNS to Cloudflare. Then we’ll transfer the domain registration. Finally, we’ll switch on proxying, which is the bit that really boosts speed and…