It’s looking like ajockalypse now for the SNP in the early results
Meanwhile Grant Shapps has lost whilst the Tories gain Leicester East. TSE
Records are tumbling during the Sunakpocalypse
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Tories banjaxed in crucial bellwether seat of Nuneaton and good news for the LDs in Harrogate
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The first key result sees a 16.5% Con to Lab swing. Labour’s vote is becoming rather efficient
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As we await the first result
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The exit poll brings bad news for the MRPs and the SNP
I am quite surprised by the Reform seats but I did advise buying them on the spreads when they were 4 due the small downside. The Tories are pummelled but not wiped out to an extinction level event. Did the supermajority talk work? TSE
What’s new pussy cat?
As we wait for the exit poll here’s some fun polling which is cat-astrophe for dogsatpollingstations. Here’s the latest betting from Betfair, what will it look like at 10.01pm? TSE
History suggests lawyer Starmer was always going to win this election
Writing a piece about why lawyers are awesome is a piece of epic tautology but it does have important betting related implications both today and in the future. Ever since Germany surrendered in World War II every time at a UK general election when Labour or the Tories have been led by a lawyer facing a non lawyer as their opponent the lawyer has always won except when both parties were led by lawyers, further proof that Shakespeare was wrong…