{"id":5509,"date":"2017-06-11T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5509"},"modified":"2017-06-11T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T12:27:49","slug":"blog-triggers-a-political-betting-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5509","title":{"rendered":"Blog triggers a political betting storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Horsington Blog\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5506\">picture of Boris Johnson parachuting in<\/a> after the election seems to have triggered a betting landslide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paddypower.com\/bet\/politics\/other-politics\/uk-politics?ev_oc_grp_ids=2600612\">Paddy Power<\/a> now has him favourite to be the next prime Minister after Theresa May at odds of 5\/2. Get it while you can, is our advice.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Corbyn is second favourite at 10\/3, followed by David Davis at 9\/2.<\/p>\n<p>In brexit betting, \u00a0you can get 4\/1 on the UK having a second referendum on the terms of an eventual brexit. Grab it.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, no UK bookie (or none that we could find) is offering odds on brexit not happening at all (i.e.the UK remains in the EU)<\/p>\n<p>Will anyone take the editor\u2019s fiver at 20\/1?<\/p>\n<p>The most sensible solution to the current political chaos would appear to be a\u00a0 National Government of all the parties, followed by a general election once Brexit is sorted. \u00a0Not available on Paddy Power or elsewhere, so will anyone take the editor\u2019s fiver at 10\/1?<\/p>\n<p><em>(Where are you, Winterborne Longjohns? -Ed)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Best quote of the day \u2013 From novelist Robert Harris writing in the \u201cSunday Times\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow did a stable, prosperous parliamentary democracy, granted a unique set of favourable opt-outs with the largest trading bloc in the world, including on the single currency and travel, throw it all up in the air on the basis of a 52-48 yes\/no vote in a referendum \u2013 a margin not normally wide enough to change the constitution of the average golf club?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Horsington Blog\u2019s picture of Boris Johnson parachuting in after the election seems to have triggered a betting landslide. Paddy Power now has him favourite to be the next prime Minister after Theresa May at odds of 5\/2. Get it while you can, is our advice. Jeremy Corbyn is second favourite at 10\/3, followed by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5509\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blog triggers a political betting storm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1qR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5509\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}