National bookmaker Ladbrokes are offering odds on individual seats at the next General Election. They’ve priced up Worsley & Eccles South this week and are offering 3/1 on a Conservative gain whenever the election comes.
This is a remarkably short price given that no part of the constituency has elected a Conservative MP in the post-war period, and it just emphasises that the race to elect a new MP for Worsley & Eccles South is a genuinely competitive one. We can win. The local communities which make up the new constituency can get real change if they vote for it.
Of course when local voters last went out to vote in a real election, they overwhelmingly chose the Conservatives. At the 2008 local elections Conservative candidates had a poll lead of 12% over Labour across the Worsley & Eccles South constituency, with the other parties trailing far behind.
Ladbrokes are offering 100/1 against a Liberal Democrat victory here. When the election comes, residents will have a clear choice between a local Conservative candidate and Gordon Brown’s Labour representative – a vote for anyone else will just help Labour get back in.
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