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the election was announced on the 22nd
whats the betting Sunak told a select few on the 17th, then a few more found out on the 20th, then the day before…
Side angle: What's the err betting that the Palace got a tip-off on 20th when Rishi enquired as to whether HRH was well enough for him to pop over in the next couple of days?
Do we have CCTV from Betfred in Windsor High Street? My money's on Camilla slapping a grand in cash on the counter with a half-smoked Rothmans drooping out of the corner of her mouth.
Friend of mine was asked by Lil' Rishis campaign team if they could host him on their farm for photo shoot and chat about how wonderful their policies are and will be for farmers.
They politely declined!
Rogue muck-spreader opportunity missed!
more info here:
There were 2 large bets by the standards of political betting -- one for £830 at odds that should deliver a £5,800 profit, and one for £850 that should deliver an expected £2,562 profit, which came in during the afternoon of 21 May, the day before Sunak announced
Quite curiously, there's a little surge of betting on May 17th, with someone betting £475.84 on a July poll. What happened on May 17? @LOS_Fisher
reported on rumours of a summer poll
https://twitter.com/xtophercook/status/1803800177699868989
will the police have to ask Sunak when he decided on the date? because
'PM interviewed By Police in Betting Scandal' is going to be a fun headline
See George Osborne is suggesting the BOE are sitting on their hands due to the election... eh? either way has a perceived bias you knobber 😕
Our postal votes have arrived. It seems that we're voting in a new electoral area and that changes voting strategy. It's Shirley and Solihul West. I was going to vote Lib -Dem in the old electoral area but in this constituency Labour looks like the best bet. Opinions?
Before Kelvin gets in I'd like to remind him of the Magna Carta and the idea of no taxation without representation. I pay NI in the UK which is a form of taxation.
Whoa! It’s usually Kippers who bring up Magna Carta.
… the idea of no taxation without representation.
Which was an idea Britain was completely against and fought a war over? 😉
The civil service were told a week or so before the announcement that our pay deal was being pushed back to the summer at the earliest
Our postal vote arrived yesterday and it is great to be able to vote for the likely winning team for the first time in ages. We have been in the Penrith and Borders region for the past 19 years but have been moved into Tim Farron's Westmorland constituency. Happy days 🙂
I pay NI in the UK which is a form of taxation.
Hey, my point was that people living and paying taxes here don’t get a vote. We have a few on this forum.
Edukator, it's def a Labour tactical vote for you - FT has it just blue at the moment, the more Lab votes the better the chance to GTTO
Before Kelvin gets in I’d like to remind him of the Magna Carta and the idea of no taxation without representation. I pay NI in the UK which is a form of taxation.
Pull the other one. Your NI contributions from overseas are not a tax! They're completely voluntary and (unless you're doing it out of patriotism) you're gonna get back multiples of what those contributions are worth. nothing wrong with that but you're hardly an overtaxed member of a voiceless serf class.
Do we have CCTV from Betfred in Windsor High Street?
Don’t be silly, one has to go to Slough for that sort of thing. Like any event of financial consequences, it’s relatively easy to look for patterns post event. I’m sure the bookmakers did just this.
In my day job I deal with plenty of market sensitive information. The correct response is NEVER deal/wager. It’s a conflict of interest. Typically one person a year is convicted of attempting to make life-changing gains. Is a £100 bet going to be life-changing? Well it is now, but not for the reasons they’d hoped for!
The two candidates should withdraw. Forget “grave error of judgement” nonsense.
What a mess
I can see more names emerging whilst tonights debate is happening
https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1803828868677013720?t=YwGhg43qlLcG9aHErHw3fg&s=19
The two things of note when I went through tebay at the weekend. Only Tim Farron posters and an STW T-shirt out washing the car.
In my day job I deal with plenty of market sensitive information. The correct response is NEVER deal/wager. It’s a conflict of interest.
Is the right answer.
I can't believe they actually chose to die on William Hill
Is the right answer.
For the little people
voiceless surf class
Residents of Cornwall have FTFY
Just seen Starmer's Twitter comment on Stop Oil. Authoritarian, right-wing, petrolhead, anti-rejoin EU, 10 u-turns.
Came close to tearing up my postal vote on the spot. Hopefully I'll have calmed down before I get to the post box.
I'm beginning to hate the Tory **** and he hasn't even been elected yet. This is Blair all over again.
^ that was my fault, apologies to the Labour crew
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Yeah that betting scandal
There's even more to come and it's 💥 https://twitter.com/Eyeswideopen69/status/1803860950908572170?t=MYxj6MOSBFf1pd21WtPW3w&s=19
I politely suggest you wife apply for British nationality, Winston. Congratulate her on my behalf for reaching that income tax bracket, I assume that's her margianl tax rate rather than what she pays as a proportional of her total income. I hope her passport is powerful enough to be able to live somewhere nice to enjoy the fruits of her labour in future years. And I hope it's somewhere that spouses are more welcome than the UK so you can enjoy the benefits too, Winston. Check my posting history you will find I'm very supportive of people in your wife's situation, and Kelvin is misleading you about how his criticism of expats being able to vote was phrased if you can be bothered to read back.
I see my references to the Magna carta and American war of independance were understood and appreciated by some at least- though I hadn't realised Reform referenced the Magna Carta. And you're right politecameraaction so long as I live long enough, fingers crossed.
I've been a tiny bit provocative on this with the Magan Carta and American Independance references because I'll admit you pissed me off Kelvin, years of being in favour of freedom of movement, anti Brexit, pro human rights and yet you are critical of nationals being able to vote in their national elections just because they're out of the country. Dual national is just that. If forced I'll drop one, till then I'm both, and some days pround of it.
Why do the SNP get a platform on this national debate on the BBC, given they're irrelevance to the vast majority of the population?
We have the BBC in Wales too....but i can't vote for the SNP and you can't vote for Plaid...
In my day job I deal with plenty of market sensitive information. The correct response is NEVER deal/wager. It’s a conflict of interest.
You'll be telling us next that it is a government's job to run the country in such a way as to benefit the majority of the people - not a few hedge funds and business owners who want to hire and fire employees at will.
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Why do the SNP get a platform on this national debate on the BBC, given they’re irrelevance to the vast majority of the population?
Because they're the third largest party in the UK, an integral part of the UK political system, and their track record in Scotland poses interesting comparisons about how social, education, health etc policy is applied in other parts of the UK...?
I quite enjoy watching Sunak getting tetchy and shooting himself in the foot.
I don’t think they can withdraw after the ballot papers are printed;
Its when the candidate window closes which was 4pm on the 7th. After that regardless of whether the candidate starts praising Putin, nuts the party leader when they come to visit or for that matter dies they are still going to appear as a candidate for whichever party they were selected for.
The party can withdraw support and I guess in theory the candidate can announce they would resign immediately. Which in itself would be interesting to see. How many people blindly vote for the person belonging to a specific party even if not only the party had disowned them but the candidates had disowned themselves.
I quite enjoy watching Sunak getting tetchy and shooting himself in the foot.
No wonder he avoids the public like the plague. He really is terrible at all this with his little tantrums when the little people dare to question him
How do you think that went then Rishi?
Well lil rishi is looking like a massive prick here
Because they’re the third largest party in the UK
Really? As a percentage of UK voters?
Anyway, Sunak was awful in that debate and the vast majority of the audience clearly couldn't stand him.
Was enjoying the Spain v Italy game so only caught it when Fiona Bruce was explaining to Rishi why the ECHR isn't really a foreign court and the shouty Scottish gentleman pointed out that quitting it would put us alongside Russia and Belarus.
Rishi looked a right prat.
I only watched 10 minutes (of sunak, most of the program) and I felt he and starmer were pushed less by Bruce than Swinney and Davey