mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 9:28 am
I really feel that Potter is taking his followers for granted - no manifesto, no policy details and not even any election communications. It all smacks of complacency...
So he's really a labour candidate!
That's fighting talk! I'm sure a strenuous denial will be issued in due course.
Which normally means the accusation is completely true...
mangocrazy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2024 9:28 am
I really feel that Potter is taking his followers for granted - no manifesto, no policy details and not even any election communications. It all smacks of complacency...
It's certainly a bit queer. We need an in depth probe to get to the bottom of it.
Posted my expat vote today. I watched an online debate (thank you BBC) with all my constituency candidates (quite refreshing difference from a leadership debate where it's all about Party nitpicking and character assassination) before I made my decision....
Labour candidate suspended after betting against himself
The Gambling Commission launches an investigation into Kevin Craig, who was seeking to become the party's MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Meanwhile, Labour is understood to be returning £100,000 that the candidate donated to the party.
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people." - Giordano Bruno
Labour candidate suspended after betting against himself
The Gambling Commission launches an investigation into Kevin Craig, who was seeking to become the party's MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Meanwhile, Labour is understood to be returning £100,000 that the candidate donated to the party.
He could call it insurance against loss of his investment.
Unless this bet was enough to pay out more than the 100k he donated to Labour it doesn't sound like anything other than a bit of fun. Embarassing for Starmer that his candidate has little faith in winning but it's starting to smell like a witch hunt now.
Labour candidate suspended after betting against himself
The Gambling Commission launches an investigation into Kevin Craig, who was seeking to become the party's MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich. Meanwhile, Labour is understood to be returning £100,000 that the candidate donated to the party.
Betting is only an issue if an individual is privy to information that other betters and the bookies don't have access to. 'Insider information' if you like. Or if you're in a position to manipulate the odds. Remember the fuss when Farage said, just before the results/exit polls came out, 'It looks like Remain have narrowly won' and was accused of having access to a poll that suggested the opposite and of shorting the pound? That sort of thing. (Which he denied and it was never proven).
Simplest solution is to restrict the bets available on election or referendum matters. eg only bets on the result and the margin. No bets taken in the 2 week period before the vote. Ditto all bets placed on the date of a general election cancelled if placed within, say, a 6 week period before the announced date. It's not a divine right of the gambling industry to offer odds on anything and everything anyway.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire
Count Steer wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:12 am
Simplest solution is to restrict the bets available on election or referendum matters. eg only bets on the result and the margin. No bets taken in the 2 week period before the vote. Ditto all bets placed on the date of a general election cancelled if placed within, say, a 6 week period before the announced date. It's not a divine right of the gambling industry to offer odds on anything and everything anyway.
