S.P.Read Esq: The General Election
Our daily columnist and pundit S.P. Read Esq. looks ahead to the UK GENERAL ELECTION and finds the best opportunities available on Star Spreads, the home of sports spread betting.
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Thank goodness – no more election leaflets through the door after today and my post can get back to the normal consignment of pizza leaflets and bills.
Six weeks of campaigning are over and the big question is still to be answered…..
Will Sunderland Central return their results first for the SIXTH election in a row ?
When it comes to fast counting, Sunderland are in a league of their own and leave no stone unturned. In 2008 they reportedly manipulated traffic lights so vans carrying ballot boxes had an unhindered journey to the count.
Other time-saving changes have included changing the weight of the paper making the slips easier to count.
Every precaution will be taken this year to ensure Sunderland keep their record. There are even spare tellers waiting in the wings, and a backup generator on standby in case of power cuts. Every second counts in Sunderland Central.
Sunderland Central will be first to return their vote but that’s about the only certainty of this General Election, oh perhaps the other being that LABOUR will hold Sunderland Central.
But the reality is there has never been an Election so close. The next Prime Minister market is a coin-flip on Star Sports fixed odds between Miliband and Cameron and the reality is that by this time tomorrow we may be no where closer to finding out.
There are a whole host of General Election markets and specials available on Star Spreads including constituency markets.
Trevor Harris from the Star Sports fixed odds trading desk reported several late swings in early trading this morning: “Thursday has seen support for Labour (most number of seats) from 4/1 into 7/2 with other notable pointers showing a big move to oppose UKIP and a suspicion that the Lib Dems might do better than originally thought.”
Voting started at 7am and closes at 10pm tonight in the UK’s 650 constituencies and it’s interesting to see Star Spreads quote the voter turnout percentage at 68.1 – 68.6. In 2010 it was 65.1 and the very recent trend has been upwards. The weather, of course, is often a key factor in that particular market and even the weather today can’t make up it’s mind. Sunny spells, showers, wind, dry, warmer, cooler….. depending on which forecast you pin your rosette to.
It might be higher if we got with the times. I wonder how long it will be before church halls, polling booths made of balsa wood and the thickest HB pencils tied up with string become a thing of the past? It is 2015 for goodness sake – votes could be cast by text, online, facebook (sorry Ben Keith!) and the result announced seconds after 10pm. But I guess, like the Eurovision Song Contest that spoils the whole damn sense of occasion.
With no overall majority considered a 1/16 chance we’re into the world of secretive deals and coalitions and the dreaded possibility of a second General Election before Christmas if it really does remain in deadlock and two-thirds of the new MP’s want to go to the country again.
Trying to find a bet is like trying to predict the 6th next move in a Boris Spassky v Robert James Fischer chess match but I am a seller on Seat Supremacy Conservative/Labour at 21 on Star Spreads.
But tread carefully – an hour is a long time in politics. Especially in Sunderland Central.
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RECOMMENDED BETS (scale 1-100 points)
SELL SEAT SUP: CONSERVATIVE / LABOUR for 30 points at 21 with Star Spreads
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- Any spread prices quoted are indicative and as always prices are subject to fluctuation.
- Please note the opinion, views and forecasts above are of the author and not of Star Spreads.
