{"id":22912,"date":"2013-01-23T14:08:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T13:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2013\/01\/23\/eu-referendum-what-chances_n_2533853.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-politics?ncid=GEP"},"modified":"2013-01-23T14:08:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T13:08:02","slug":"the-odds-on-an-eu-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/the-odds-on-an-eu-referendum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odds On An EU Referendum&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>On Wednesday morning David Cameron promised an in\/out referendum on the EU and set the date for 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Only thing is, there is a rather large obstacle in the way and we&#8217;re not talking about Nigel Farage&#8217;s unusually wide grin.<\/p>\n<p>An election.<\/p>\n<p>A very important election which the Conservatives must win otherwise all of this referendum talk is as relevant as Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com\/?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.paddypower.com%2Fbet\" >online bookmakers, Paddy Power,<\/a> are offering odds of 11\/4 for a Conservative majority in 2015 and 5\/2 on an EU referendum taking place in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Lets put these into context with a look at the odds offered on some other things on the political (and not so political) horizon&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday morning David Cameron promised an in\/out referendum on the EU and set the date for 2017.<br \/>\nOnly thing is, there is a rather large obstacle in the way and we&#8217;re not talking about Nigel Farage&#8217;s unusually wide grin.<br \/>\nAn election.<br \/>\nA very import&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}