General Election Betting : HID Politics

General Election Odds: Betfair Markets unmoved by Sun news

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:46:56 +0000

No seismic shifts in the Betfair election markets as Britain's biggest-selling tabloid abandons government...

General Election Betting: Not even King of Pop's death can disguise extent of Labour's gamble

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:04:19 +0000

Labour have decided to make their last stand in a desperate bid to win the next General Election... and it's going to cost us all a lot of money.

Politics Betting: Brown at evens to go this month

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:34:19 +0000

Initial election results deliver damning verdict on the government as PM launches emergency cabinet reshuffle after Purnell becomes third minister to resign in a week...

General Election Odds: Miserable week for Labour gets backbenchers thinking

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:55:37 +0000

The tidal wave of bad news continues to crash over Gordon Brown and the waters show no sign of abating...

Betfair Politics Update: Beleaguered Brown awaits unforeseen economic saviour

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:51:07 +0000

The world's political elite in town but even that brings more pain to under-fire Prime Minister.

Brown delights Washington but fails to move the needle at home

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:44:06 +0000

Stateside plaudits will have cheered the PM, yet Britain remained unimpressed and he'll need a huge turnaround to even make the next general election as leader let alone win it.

UK General Election Odds: Punters paint a bleak picture for Labour as Conservatives climb further over weekend

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:10:08 +0000

The Labour Party now has just an 11 percent chance (odds [9.0]) of securing an overall majority at the next election, according to Betfair customers...

General Election Betting: Prepare to go to the polls in 2009

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:39:47 +0000

The Betfair Contrarian took one look at the odds-on quote for a 2010 election and blew a big, fat raspberry. Ladies and gents of the British Isles, 2009 is vote time and here's why...

UK General Election Odds: Electoral geography makes a hung parliament a superb value bet

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:19:59 +0000

Election betting expert Paul Krishnamurty tells us why betting on no party having an overall majority at the next election is the best political punt he's seen for years...

UK Election Odds: Mr Brown's game is up

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:19:18 +0000

The Pre-Budget Report signals yet another nail in the New Labour coffin. Jonathan Sanders from BePolitics tells us why...

The Contrarian - Labour will get back off the ropes and buck the odds to win the next general election

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:37:08 +0000

The Contrarian rarely troubles the infinite serenity of his mind with politics, not because of the interminable gasbaggery, but because the British biggies come round less frequently than World Cups. But even the dopiest of punters ought to do a massive double take when one of the runners in a two-horse race is priced as long as [6.4], as Labour are to win an outright majority at the next general election (the Tories are [1.71]).

2007 Election continues to lengthen on Betfair

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:10:14 +0000

Election this year now a 2.2 chance

General Election Betting

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:56:53 +0000

Election fever is a debilitating condition. It can turn the most eloquent of political journalists into trembling hacks, hallucinating about hustings, returning officers and swingometers.

And the most infectious place to be at the moment is the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, where every word of every speech is pored over minutely for any trace of a clue as to the likelihood of a 2007 election.