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    Laura Saunders: Second Conservative candidate facing betting probe is married to party’s head of campaigns


    Laura Saunders: Second Conservative candidate facing betting probe is married to party’s head of campaigns

    https://news.sky.com/story/laura-saunders-second-conservative-candidate-facing-betting-probe-is-married-to-partys-head-of-campaigns-13155879

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    1. spackysteve on

      Are these guys fucking idiots. Surely if you want to make a fraudulent bet you would get a person who you have no public relationship with to make the bet then split the winnings.

    2. DismalAd2452 on

      Is so obvious this is something you just can’t do as an MP. It’s not the morality of it that’s the main issue it’s the fact we either have MPs who are completely stupid or so monumentally arrogant they didn’t think the rules applied. I worry it’s both.

    3. AnonyMouseAndJerry on

      Book has to be absolutely volleyed at them for this. How dumb do they think the general population has to be to try this? As if most people don’t know what insider betting is?

      God, out of *everything* they’ve done recently this one has vexed me a lot for some reason, because I just cannot believe the audacity of it lmao.

    5. PhoneDownGoOutside on

      It’s hilarious how they can’t even put rogue bets on ‘properly’.

    6. Jensablefur on

      I’m still wondering if we will ever find out how much Kwarteng and his mates made from shorting the pound before tanking it.

      These lot are grifters to the point of literal criminality. A “hold my beer” of insider trading and dirty handshakes.

    8. Extension_Algae_7069 on

      I don’t know why you’d do something so silly for a few hundred quid when you’re hoping to get a job that’ll probably see you set for life. 

      FYI I don’t know how much she bet, but the first one caught did it for £400.

    9. Marcuse0 on

      Not only that, but the Conservative campaign director she’s married to has now taken a leave of absence, two weeks before the election that he’s supposed to be directing the campaign for.

      This is literally a disaster of unprecedented proportions, I genuinely can’t think of a moment where such a stupid and banal scandal has brought down the head of a campaign in such a manner. The Conservatives have nobody to blame but themselves when it comes to this stupidity.

    10. Agreeable_Falcon1044 on

      It’s laughable as it just shows how leaky the Tory hq is. Makes you wonder what else has been leaked to press, foreign powers etc.

      Secondly you can’t get more than 100 quid on anything. I just tried to get a bet on hayes to retain (the latest Mrp poll suggests he will lose but even at 1/4 that’s free money!). I was told I could have it…but 100 max and singles only…

      They are cheating for pennies

    11. lastaccountgotlocked on

      What’s the legal issue here? Obviously it’s unethical but is there a specific illegal thing that this is? Fraud? Insider trading? Would they have actually rigged an event if they knew the outcome of the bet but hadn’t rigged it themselves? I’ve seen lots of “gambling commission are investigating” but not what they’re investigating.