Is this bad news for Ken? After reading Stehert’s comment on the previous thread I’ve just watched the GMTV morning news when it looked as though the Labour Deputy Leader, Harriet Harman, was conceding defeat in London. When pressed on the Mayoral race she said that she “did not expect the London result to be any different to the rest of the country.” Certainly there’s been a lot of Tory celebrations and I was amazed that ConservativeHome was ready to…
The ramper/impersonator exposes a vulnerability Those who were on the site at about 6.30pm last night would have followed the attempt of a ramper to influence the Ken and Boris betting prices by creating exchanges as though they were by regular posters here. The “dialogue” started with him creating what purported to be a comment by me saying I had information about an exit poll saying things could be quite close. It then went to cover quite a few regular…
BBC Projected National Shares are Con 44, Lib Dem 25, Lab 24 PB – the place to be on election night Double Carpet
Please help ease server pressure by using this thread to post comments as results come in. Double Carpet
Please help ease server pressure by using this new thread to post comments as results come in for the local elections. Double Carpet
The Dunfermline by election: final price Labour 0.2/1 favourite It’s very easy, especially on election days, to believe that there is some mystical quality about betting prices. If changes are taking place you assume someone knows something and that you should be following yourself. Quite often price changes are based on very little and in the absence of a real reason for a move it’s usually wise to hold your nerve. There was no better example of the markets being…
Mike Smithson
There has been an attempt to impersonate me and others on the previous thread. The person responsible has now been identified and has been banned. I am not aware of any exit polls tonight. Automated content moderation is now on – if you have not had a comment approved here before or if your details have changed then it will get held up in the spam trap. This was all the work of one person who was trying to influence…