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PB gathering – Ilkley, Yorkshire: Monday July 7th 2014 starting 6.30pm
The Flying Duck Ilkley As has been mentioned several times on the site the next PB get-together will be at the Flying Duck pub in the heart of Ilkley in Yorkshire. It’s in the town centre not far from...
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Marf on the murder of Boris Nemtsov and details of the pre-GE15 PB gathering
Date for your Diary March 17th at 7pm The next PB get-together will take place on Tuesday March 17th from 7pm at the Shooting Star in Middlesex Street. As the map below shows this is just round the...
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Marf for Wednesday and a reminder for next week
Reminder: PB gathering March 17th at 7pm The next PB get-together will take place on Tuesday March 17th from 7pm at the Shooting Star in Middlesex Street. As the map below shows this is just round the...
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Some pics from last night’s gathering
Fat Steve & MikeK Sunil & Stodge Richard Nabavi & Antifrank Maybe because it was mid-week in a new venue but last night’s PB London Gathering didn’t attract the numbers that we have got...
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Announcing PB’s General Election night event + today’s Populus poll
2200-0600 May 7th 2015 – Finborough Arms Kensington This is from Jeff Bell who used to post as Stonch. “Kensington and Chelsea have now granted me and all night licence for the Finborough on May 7th...
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The new one member one vote rules will transform Labour’s leadership election
Liz Kendall tells @afneil that she's a leadership runner http://t.co/OKnfA55VAe — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) May 11, 2015 Dan Jarvis rules himself out while Liz Kendall tells Andrew Neil that she is...
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PB competitions results
The results are in and the winner is David. Many congratulations on your victory. Mike Smithson will contact you on how to claim your prize. Many thanks are due to Mark Hopkins of Nojam for creating...
View ArticleDate for your diary: Next PB gathering October 29th 2015 – Shooting Star pub...
We’ve got a lot to catch up on The last PB gathering in London took place in March while EdM was odds on favourite to be the next PM, UKIP appeared to be heading for at least half a dozen seats, the...
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StJohn returns with his annual Christmas Day Crossword
A welcome return to what was a PB Christmas Day tradition There was a time when Christmas Day on PB wasn’t Christmas Day without the annual crossword by St John. We’ll this year he’s back and here it...
View ArticleDate for your diary: Next PB Gathering Friday April 8th + the local...
We’ve got a lot to catch up on Just to confirm – the next PB gathering takes place at the Shooting Star on Friday April 8th from about 1830. We’ve returned to a Friday evening slot following requests...
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Updated EURef polling tale and a reminder about tomorrow night
Next PB gathering – tomorrow from 1830 Venue – The Shooting Star close to Liverpool St Station – London Best politics podcast at the moment? @keiranpedley and @MSmithsonPB on the PB/Political Betting...
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A big thank you to those who’ve contributed to the post-referendum appeal to...
It has become something of a PB tradition after big elections for an appeal to be made for funds to help keep the site going. This year we’ve been fortunate to have had a robust enough technical...
View ArticleIntroducing the PB/YouGov Favourability Ratings – a new development by the site
First survey has Corbyn ahead of Trump, Putin AND Cameron As many will know I am a great fan of leader ratings which I believe are a better pointer to political outcomes than voting intention numbers....
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Who should we include in the next PB/YouGov Favourability ratings?
In August PB was able to have its own YouGov favourability ratings. I am pleased to say that we are now in a position to go forward with a similar survey. Last time we had:- Barack Obama Hillary...
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The St John PB Christmas Day Crossword
Happy Christmas to everybody For several years there has been a Christmas Day cross-word on PB pioneered by long-standing PBer StJohn. Here’s the 2016 version – enjoy. Across 1. Fly in two bloggers (6)...
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With 2016 drawing to a close the PB/Polling Matters poll of the year
As we approach 2017, Keiran Pedley reviews the winners and losers of the past year and breaks down the 2016 PB/Polling Matters survey results. Earlier this month we conducted the first annual survey...
View ArticleCONFIRMED: The pre-GE2017 PB gathering: Friday May 26th: from 6.30pm: Close...
The pre-GE2017 PB gathering will take place at the Lord Raglan pub, 61 St Martins le Grand, St Pauls EC1A 4ER. An area downstairs called the Fireplace has been booked. Thanks once again to Fat Steve...
View ArticleJust to confirm: Friday’s Pre-GE2017 gathering WILL be taking place
Several people have been asking if Friday’s PB gathering is still going to take place. The answer is yes. It will start at the Lord Raglan pub, 61 St Martins le Grand, St Pauls EC1A 4ER from 6.30pm....
View ArticleThis might be a bit late but PBers are invited to a post GE17 event tomorrow...
We welcome @IpsosMORI @ComRes @Survation @GfK & @MSmithsonPB to our free #GE2017 event tomorrow https://t.co/c9wNy14tPn #polling #NewMR #Mrx pic.twitter.com/5I8leh53sk — Loughborough CRCC...
View ArticleFrom Core TV – focus on PB, Brexit, the “Democrats”, the Tory leadership and...
No David Herdson with his usual Saturday morning post this morning but instead this TV feature on PB and many of the issues we’ve been discussing on the site over the past few weeks. This interview,...
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Remembering Mark Senior – poster on PB 2004-2017
Last week, a couple of days before the end of my holiday, we had the sad news that one of PB’s leading posters almost since the site started, Mark Senior, has died. Over nearly a decade and a half he...
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The Sky Bet decision that points to problems for sites like PB
If others shut down affiliate programme then main revenue streams could be hit Affiliates are third-party companies who work on commission for gambling retailers by directing traffic (customers) to...
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Off to Westminster to give evidence before the House of Lords Committee...
This morning alongside Matthew Shaddick (Shadsy) of Ladbrokes I’ll be giving evidence before the Lords Committee that’s investigating political polling particularly in view of what happened at GE17....
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Christmas Day on PB wouldn’t be Christmas without the StJohn Christmas...
Renewing a great tradition One of the great traditions on PB has been the StJohn Christmas Crossword. The has been published on most Christmas days on the site since 2007. Its creator, StJohn, is one...
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For Politicalbetting’s 15th anniversary today – a special cartoon from Marf
Exactly 15 years ago today PB was launched Today PB celebrates it’s 15th birthday, making it, I’d suggest, just about the longest surviving major political blog in the UK. We were up and operational...
View ArticleThe Saturday evening open thread
Video – The highlights of the greatest comeback since Lazarus Tonight’s Champions League final and Mike’s holiday means PB isn’t going to edited in the usual way this weekend, so it’ll feature open...
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Biden drops to second place in California while his lead’s down to just 4 in...
Another American White House race is starting to dominate political betting which is a reminder of just how how long PB has been going. WH2020 contest will be the fifth such race that PB has covered...
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The Conservative Party is pursuing profoundly un-conservative policies. So...
Ideology with no concern for consequences or convention is the business of revolutionaries I have today resigned my membership of the Conservative Party after 24 years. While that’s a moment of some...
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What sort of fool would have predicted the politics of 2020 in 2010? Me.
Andy Welsh Flickr Time for the reckoning on my long-term calls At the start of the decade, I asked what politics in the UK would look like ten years hence. That time has now arrived, so let’s look at...
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The Tuesday PB Nighthawks
Last night PB made an appeal for help funding the site during the lockdown which has had a dramatic impact on the site’s two main revenue sources – display advertising and affiliate income. The...
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The annual StJohn PB Christmas Crossword (est 2007)
Across 1 Scandal of former Labour minister caught eating a roll (10) 6 Cut government without delay (4) 9 An election is awfully near. Stick around (7) 10 Ban traffic light signals after relocating...
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Let’s start to think about a post-pandemic PB gathering
I have been reminded that it is now more than four years since we had a PB gathering. In recent years these had taken place in pubs in central London where Fat Steve had arranged for a specific area...
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Sending best wishes to PBer JohnO
I’m sure PBers will join me in sending our best wishes to JohnO who suffered a cardiac arrest earlier on this month, Esher and Walton Conservatives said last week. Local Conservatives are thankful for...
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