Hungary is the holding pen of Europe. Sat on the Great Hungarian Plain, which is effectively the most westward of the steppes, it is no coincidence that successive invasions over many eras have come through Hungary and stopped at Vienna, from the Mongols to the Turks to the waves of migrants in 2015 – it is the line of least resistance. The last hundred years have not been good for Hungary. It lost two thirds of its territory at the…
Betdata.io The chart shows the movement on the Betfair brexit betting market since March 29th last year when article 50 was invoked. As can be seen there has been quite a change particularly in the past few weeks and now the money is going on the UK leaving the EU on March 29th 2019. This is all based on the Betfair betting exchange where different punters set the odds and not the bookmaker. For an exchange brings together those who…
A year to go and the latest chart based on the YouGov Brexit tracker pic.twitter.com/cqW6hhQL4z — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 29, 2018 Latest YouGov Brexit tracker finds "wrong to leave" once again with a lead.In hindsight, do you think Britain was right or wrong to vote to leave the EU? Right 42% -1Wrong 45% =DK 14% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 29, 2018 Chart with LAB voter split on Brexit tracker in latest YouGov poll pic.twitter.com/gyLXN4NQuo — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB)…
As a new YouGov poll shows the Tories 4 points ahead, Keiran Pedley and Leo Barasi discuss the untold story of the recent Conservative resurgence in the polls and ask what is behind it and does it matter? Catching up on recent events, Keiran and Leo also discuss the Salisbury attack and delve into recent polling around its aftermath and Russia. Keiran explains why he thinks this story might be cutting through politically beyond the usual Westminster bubble chatter. Keiran…
Will TMay force him out or not? The big political betting development this afternoon have been a rush of money going on Lord Chancellor, David Gauke for next cabinet exit following a decision earlier by the High Court to block the release of the black cab rapist, John Worboys. The court ruled in favour of two of his victims to overturn a decision to release the black cab rapist. It decided that the Parole Board should make a “fresh determination”…
Has the GE17 effect finally petered out? The above chart based on the Wikipedia table of published voting intention polls is a different way of looking at trends in political opinion. What is shown here is the percentage of polls that had a Labour leads each month and the percentage of published polls that had the Conservatives ahead. The surveys included are the GB ones and do not include the regional polls such as the Scotland/Wales/London specific ones. The chart…
There’s a Betfair market that hasn’t attracted much attention or liquidity on which of May/Corbyn/Cable/Sturgeon will be the first leader out. I think it would have been better to confine it to the PM and LOTO. What’s been striking is how over the past fortnight Mrs. May, who looked a basket case earlier in the month rated as an 80% chance of being first out, is now at 50%. Meanwhile Corbyn, who was at 2% has now edged up to…
Election anoraks can spend hours with this On PB we always like to hear about innovative means of getting election and other data. Well let me alert you to Lawrence Ware’s grandly titled Universal Ballot Database which enables the user to zoom in, see the mapping of every individual ward n England and Wales and the results. What it does is link the comprehensive Rallings and Thrasher election data base with Google maps. It does use an enormous amount of…