{"id":18721,"date":"2017-06-07T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18721"},"modified":"2017-06-07T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T22:37:14","slug":"eve-of-election-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=18721","title":{"rendered":"Eve of Election Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17041804.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of Election Odds\" \/><br \/>\nOn the morning of April 18th, when the election was announced, I happened to be passing Abingdon Street and saw the odds on a party getting the most seats were:<br \/>\nCon 1\/10<br \/>\nLab 6\/1<br \/>\nLib Dem 25\/1<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag17\/17060701.jpg\" alt=\"Eve of Election Odds\" \/><br \/>\nOn the eve of the election, passing the local betting station, I see that the odds for getting most seats are now:<br \/>\nCon 1\/20<br \/>\nLab 8\/1<br \/>\nLib Dem 500\/1<\/p>\n<p>Here in Oxford and West and Abingdon, on Paddy Power, the odds on the 4 parties winning are<br \/>\nCon 1\/5<br \/>\nLib Dem 11\/4<br \/>\nLab 100\/1<br \/>\nUKIP 200\/1<\/p>\n<p>The Green Candidate decided to stand down at this election as some greens will be lending their vote to the Lib Dems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of April 18th, when the election was announced, I happened to be passing Abingdon Street and saw the odds on a party getting the most seats were: Con 1\/10 Lab 6\/1 Lib Dem 25\/1 On the eve of the election, passing the local betting station, I see that the odds for getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}