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Betting Oggs-On Brown’s June General Election Gamble
Leading online casino reviews and gambling blog website Oggs.com bets on UK Prime Minister springing a June 09 election on a subdued electorate in the face of the polished Barack Obama visit and G20 success in London this month.
London, UK (PRWEB UK) 6 April, 2009 — Leading online casino reviews and gambling blog website Oggs.com bets on UK Prime Minister springing a June 09 election on a subdued electorate in the face of the polished Barack Obama visit and G20 success in London this month.
With major UK bookmakers such as Ladbrokes offering the second most favoured month for a general election as June 2009, the OggBlog puts the case for why this might just tempt Gordon Brown to call a surprise election and intercedes that whilst the world economic crisis is still very much affecting us all, the opportunity to get a further mandate to govern now is probably better than in the future than when any ‘green shoots of recovery’ are mired in the tax burdens no doubt heaped on the same electorate in the coming months, in order to pay off the massive borrowing incurred so far, in order to get the economy back on its feet and growing again.
A university study showed that political betting was a far more accurate assessor of the chance of candidates and political parties than public polls and surveys leading up to elections. So bookmakers are very much the polls to rely on. Even though the Prime Minister was most eloquently put down by Daniel Hannan MEP recently in the European Parliament, Gordon Brown could well feel that now is good a time as any to risk the gamble whilst oppostion parties are themselves still not ready to govern and could well wrong foot them.
With the UK and Ireland the only countries where political betting on the outcomes of elections is legal, nowhere else in Europe is it allowed, it is estimated £30 million pounds was staked on the US presidential elections in October 2008, which itself dwarfs the £10 million placed on Britain’s 2005 election and shows the greater interest in political betting especially via the more accessible online opportunities available.
For the US to enjoy the same freedoms first its Government will need to repeal its own UIGEA 2006 Bill and allow US citizens to place online bets on online casinos and bookmakers outside their own country, or legalise online gaming across the US outright. Both that and Gordon Brown victories look long shots for now, but as they say ‘A week is a long time in politics’. You wouldn’t bet on it!
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