Bookmaker News – Aliens Proving Popular Against the BB Dinosaur

Well, what’s been going on while I’ve been away? I think the most significant piece of news has been that Britain was apparently under scrutiny from aliens during the Second World War! In a collection of documents, recently declassified under the Freedom of Information Act, wartime premier Winston Churchill is said to have ordered a cover up of a report that British aircraft were being shadowed by UFOs in the 1940s as they flew reconnaissance missions. Those aliens must have been some pilots to navigate their way safely through all the ordnance that was whizzing around Britain’s skies during WWII and, of course, serachlights, barrage balloons and tracer fire from anti-aircraft guns couldn’t have been mistaken for something even more sinister – could it? The whole flying saucer debate has provided a steady trickle of revenue down the years for bookmakers and William Hill have been encouraged to cut their odds from 100/1 to 80/1 that the presence of extra-terrestrials will be acknowledged by a leading government figure within the next 12 months. I won’t be having a punt, it would be just my luck to be sat in my armchair grasping a winning betting slip when some mutated distant relative of Paul The Octopus slithered through the front door and decided I looked more appetising than a plate of mussels draped in a Spanish flag!
If that was the case, I’d certainly ask him to point his ray gun in the direction of the Big Brother house first. Our early tip Josie is still in there pitching (now a general 3/1) but Davina’s screamathon is now proving wearing even to the most ardent BB fans and the sooner they make this media dinosaur extinct, the better it will be for all those tabloids who think even a flicker of interest remains in the public psyche.

Finally, it’s good to see a relatively new kid on the bookmaking block expanding, despite the country still struggling to throw off the shackles of recession. Platinum Leisure, who trade as Just A Bet, now has five sites in the North East having taken over three shops from the stricken Pagebet. There are plans to operate three times as many by 2013 – let’s hope their enterprise is rewarded in the months ahead.

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