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The Guardian - UK
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Mike Smithson

Mike Smithson's bet of the day: Choose your words carefully

Today's tip is not a specific choice but a suggested way of finding likely winners among the markets that the bookmakers will be putting up today and tomorrow on whether selected words or phrases will be used in Thursday's final leaders' TV debate.

One punter I know works out the best bets by checking whether any of the options have been used in earlier debates. By Googling "UK debate transcript" you can download the transcripts from the BBC site and they can then be searched for some of the phrases and words on offer.

Thus he has found that Nick Clegg has said "crazy" in one debate and "rubbish" in another, both of which are available at 5-2 at Ladbrokes.

This final debate focuses on the economy and "Lehman Brothers" at 7-2 also looks good.

Mike Smithson is the founder and editor of politicalbetting.com

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