Punters who have been playing the Tony Blair and Party Leader markets will be intrigued by the comments from broadcaster, Melvyn Bragg, about how close the Prime Minster came to stepping down in the late Spring. At one stage in mid-May the price on Gordon Brown being PM at the General Election touched evens and the timing of this seems to coincide with the period that Bragg and others were talking about. What’s said to have changed Tony Blair’s mind…
Break the piggy bank to bet on Labour at 4/7 Following tonight’s poll on the Hartlepool by-election on Channel 4 it almost worth breaking the piggy bank to get money on. The latest Hartlepool prices are here. Given the scale of the poll we cannot see the Labour odds staying at 4/7 for very long. We notice that William Hill’s market is not appearing on the odds search engine -they’ve probably withdrawn it until a review tomorrow morning. You can…
Turning conventional thinking on its head The conventional thinking that Tony Blair is certain to be returned with a workable majority even if Labour ’s vote is level with the Tories in the low 30s could be turned on its head by two “tactical voting unwinders” that Politicalbetting users are developing to help forecast the coming election. It is the belief in Blair’s total invulnerability that dominates the betting, the attitude of the media and mostly the way the Prime…
bbc Labour Chair Ian McCartney warns against Labour complacency Yesterday’s lead story in the Independent on Sunday on Ian McCartney’s warnings on the dangers of complacency and Labour MPs saying that the party faces “catastrophe at the General Election” has made no impression on political gamblers. The Commons seat markets on Bet365 remain unchanged. It’s still evens that Labour will get 335 seats or less – a total that would give it a majority of 22. The spread markets, are…
What’s happened to the Labour campaign? A couple of weeks before the July contests we advised punters wanting to place a bet to subject the competing parties to the Google Test. For Google’s success as the world’s number one search engine has been based on providing the most relevant results in an order based, in broad terms, on the popularity of the site. At Brent East and Leicester South the Lib Dems dominated the first search pages. At Hodge Hill,…
“A bully & a big-mouth” – Matthew Parris, The Times With a Times commentator calling him this morning a “bully and a big-mouth” Alan Milburn has been installed as 3/1 second favourite to succeed Tony Blair as permanent Leader of the Labour Party by William Hill who make Gordon Brown 4/6 favourite and also offer 16/1 Charles Clarke, Jack Straw; 20/1 Patricia Hewitt; John Reid; 25/1 David Blunkett. This market is not yet available online. The move follows the ructions…
Tories win their first ever council seat in Tower Hamlets An impressive performance by the Tories and a big surge for George Galloway’s RESPECT’s party saw Labour forced into third place in what at first sight looks a bizarre local council election yesterday in Tower Hamlets. In the Millwall ward on the Isle of Dogs the Tories took a seat because RESPECT split the Labour vote and there was a huge surge in the Tory vote. The result is even…
bbc Punters re-assess the Chancellor’s chances The price on Gordon Brown being Labour leader at the General Election has moved out and that on Alan Milburn tightened following Tony Blair’s Cabiner re-shuffle that sees a return to office of the former Health Secretary. In just four months the odds on the Chancellor making it to Number 10 before the election have slumped from touching evens at one point in May to about 7/2 today. Milburn had been at 250/1 and…