If You Walked Into A Betting Shop Wearing A Mac With The Collar Turned Up...

[sandyRoe]

...and a wide brimmed hat could you place a bet without having to give details of your identity?

[maggiebee]

Never heard of a betting shop asking for proof of identity. Think they just take your money and have a wee laugh at another mug.

[barry1010]

Bookies ask for id if you have a big win

[sandyRoe]

I'd guess those with inside information about the date of the election before it was announced don't have much knowledge of gambling ways.

[douglas9401]

It's a fair cop.

[sandyRoe]

A ton on the date of the election wouldn't break the bank.  Hardly worth risking your career for a few hundred quid 

[youngmafbog]

Never been in one and never will.  So no idea.

[naomi24]

What odds did he get?

[sandyRoe]

The pundits thought the election would be in the autumn.

So maybe 10-1 on an earlier one.

[naomi24]

He must have been potty!

[Ken4155]

5/1 was the price Sunak's aid received when he put his ton on.

[Ken4155]

Craig Williams is the chap i'm talking about. Don't know how much the cop or the minster's wife put on nor what odds they got.

Just wish Sunak had let me know - i have a half dozen online accounts😉

[naomi24]

It's not even a lot of money, Ken.  Why on earth would anyone do that?

[sandyRoe]

I believe there are three at least who had suddenly developed an interest in gambling.

The reformed punters motto, 'Gambling is a mug's game.', never seemed truer.

 

[Ken4155]

Greed, Naomi, pure greed.

[youngmafbog]

It's routing out the thicko's isnt it.

[naomi24]

It's just not enough to be greedy about though.  A potential life-changing amount I could perhaps understand - but a few hundred or a thousand pounds is peanuts.

[Ken4155]

Wonder if Sunak was in on it? You know, "How much are you banging on it." £50 guv." Here's my £50, double it."

[sandyRoe]

I hope nobody opened an on-line account to place their bets.

There used to be a thing called a paper trail.  Wonder what the correct term would be now?

[youngmafbog]

And with the amounts so small it rather seems that they were grassed up.  Cant imagine every Bookie investigating every punter that won.

[Peter Pedant]

sands - audit trail perhaps ( but not audit as we know it - coming up a lot in Post Office  Horizon, meaning we know who wrote what)

no I think they used to same software to identify insider trading - that is the number of bets laid around an unlikely event - july elections are v v rare

so I reckon they cd look at them all