If we believe what we read then Gordon Brown is going the call a general election next Tuesday.
Despite polls in a number of daily newspapers today showing increasing support for David Cameron’s Conservative Party Brown and Labour are still expected to win with ease.
However politics is often unpredictable and many a safe bet has suffered as a result of leaked information or a careless throw away comment.
If that does happen and the Tory’s level of national support continues to increase then David Cameron could be tucking into Christmas dinner in number 10 downing street this year and not Gordon Brown.
But if the Eaton boy is to become the nation’s leader what can we expect from him in relation to the Super Casino issue and other policies relating to gambling?
Worryingly for you average punter – the signs aren’t great for Cameron.
Initially the Tory Leader supported the decision to award the Super Casino licence to Manchester saying in the House of Commons “It was the right decision that it went to the north of England and actually it's going to have a regeneration impact. I've nothing against Greenwich at all, but, after all, London did get the Olympics and so I think that either Manchester or Blackpool... probably made more sense."
However when it became clear that the city of Blackpool rejected the decision taken by the Government’s special advisory panel Cameron changed direction.
The Tory leader, against the advice of his shadow chancellor George Osborne, ordered his MPs to oppose Labour's proposals for a super-casino when the bill went before the House of Lords and Commons in March.
Ultimately plans for the 16 regional casinos and the Super Casino were halted when the House of Lords voted against pushing through the proposals.
The vote had salvaged some political points for Cameron but already it seemed his priorities were the headlines and not the issue itself.
In July when Gordon Brown all but killed off plans for the Super Casino urging the process of alternative regeneration instead of Casino building he was again attacked by the leader of the Opposition.
Cameron said “ The move was rather unfair as some local authorities had put a huge amount of money into bidding for the casinos. I think that was an extraordinary thing yesterday, because he told us ... everything is going to be carefully discussed, and suddenly the Government's policy is torn up on the sort of whim of an answer at Prime Minister's questions.”
If the Democratic candidate John Kerry was described as being a flip flop politician at the last US elections then Cameron is guilty of somersaulting on the issue of Super Casinos in the UK.
Gambling, Casinos and online gaming are not popular with the Conservatives as they push green issues and moral causes for the benefit of middle England.
Judging by his track record the only reason David Cameron would even mention the industry is if he gain some political head way from it.
Conservative leader David Cameron today called for a Government statement on super-casinos, saying Mr. Brown's move was "rather unfair" as some local authorities had put a huge amount of money into bidding for the casinos.
Mr. Cameron told GMTV today: "I think that was an extraordinary thing yesterday, because he told us ... everything is going to be carefully discussed, and suddenly the Government's policy is torn up on the sort of whim of an answer at Prime Minister's questions."
