Archive for Our Scotland - www.our-scotland.org Scottish Politics Discussion Forum / Messageboard - Dedicated to online discussion about Scottish Politics and an Independent Scotland, as well as Scottish Society today. We also have a section dedicated to Banter, Sport and Recommended Sites.
 



       Our Scotland - www.our-scotland.org Forum Index -> Scottish Politics and Independence
George

Bookmakers

I have noted that there are now no highstreet bookmakers offering odds on this election.
Betfair however have the SNP at 1/2 to emerge the biggets party with Labour at around 15/8. In other words SNP are strong favourites according to this one firm.
macnumpty

This is not necessarily the last poll. One of the blogs I read is reporting that the Telegraph will publish one more YouGov today. YouGov were the most accurate of the pollsters in 2003 and they forecast a 6% SNP lead on the Constituency vote, and a 5% SNP lead on the Regional.
George

macnumpty wrote:
This is not necessarily the last poll. One of the blogs I read is reporting that the Telegraph will publish one more YouGov today. YouGov were the most accurate of the pollsters in 2003 and they forecast a 6% SNP lead on the Constituency vote, and a 5% SNP lead on the Regional.


Sorry Macnumpty, I realised that I had produced a poll that had been posted earlier today and edited my post.

You are correct that there is indeed another poll. This has just been confirmed by Jackie Bird on the news.
SLG

Re: Bookmakers

George wrote:
I have noted that there are now no highstreet bookmakers offering odds on this election.
Betfair however have the SNP at 1/2 to emerge the biggets party with Labour at around 15/8. In other words SNP are strong favourites according to this one firm.

The high street bookies were showing odds online. I'll have a look. The Betfair odds have lenghtened for the SNP and shorted for Labour a fair bit in the last couple of days. SNP, as you say, still clear favourites though.
SLG

George wrote:
You are correct that there is indeed another poll. This has just been confirmed by Jackie Bird on the news.

Any hint at what it might show?
George

Stop press!!

Brian Taylor confirms on newsnight poll result revealed by macnumpty, yougov were polling up to 17:00 hrs this evening.

Snapshot of actual Telegraph front page suggesting six seat lead to SNP.

However, reading between the lines I think that the Libs are now manoeuvering themselves in order to forge an anti SNP alliance....only my take though.
SLG

William Hill were definitely offering odd a few days ago. I did hear that they'd stopped taking bets after a particularly good poll for the SNP, but I'm sure I saw them still giving odds after that. Not any more though. Bit odd as they're still offering odds on the Welsh assembly - and it's a sure thing.
George

Re: Bookmakers

SLG wrote:
George wrote:
I have noted that there are now no highstreet bookmakers offering odds on this election.
Betfair however have the SNP at 1/2 to emerge the biggets party with Labour at around 15/8. In other words SNP are strong favourites according to this one firm.

The high street bookies were showing odds online. I'll have a look. The Betfair odds have lenghtened for the SNP and shorted for Labour a fair bit in the last couple of days. SNP, as you say, still clear favourites though.


Apologies if I am wrong SLG, the website I look at lists all of the major bookmakers odds for this election. One by one the odds have disappeared.

This is the link: http://www.easyodds.com/compareod...cials/politics/m/66219-130-3.html ......Betfair odds are updated regularly.

       Our Scotland - www.our-scotland.org Forum Index -> Scottish Politics and Independence
Page 1 of 1
Create your own free forum | Buy a domain to use with your forum
Our Scotland Hit Counter 'Top Scottish Websites' - www.our-scotland.org Scottish Top Site - Topsites Top 100 Scottish Websites Our Scotland Forums Critical Acclaim ~ Politically Progressive Top Sites Tartan Army Topsites View Site Stats Our Scotland Blog Scottish Politics Scottish Lads