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The twins were certainly over-priced. 1.15 was ridculously short. I thought that even at the time. Once they went below 1.5 (which I thought was about right) I put it down to gamblers' fever, punters creating their own bandwagon. But 1.5 is still low enough to signify a clear win. What is certain is that the sudden swing of money in the last half hour was the result of inside information. And the bookies sussed that quickly, and brought down the shutters. By 10.15 pm there were only two still trading, No doubt there'll be post-mortems, and accusations flying around. Questions might be asked not only about Endemol's security but also about the way votes are collected and counted.

If you're looking for more innocent explanations, it would have to be complacency on the part of Twins supporters who didn't vote. I can't think of anything else. Only two days ago there was a rough poll taken of the BBLB audience which showed 1/2 supporting twins, 1/3 supporting Brian. Obviously you can't take that as being an accurate sample of the population, but I wouldn't expect it to be as unrepresentative as it apparently was. To reflect the final result, what it would mean is that half of that audience would have had to switch their votes from Twins to Brian. I can think of no reason at all why that would have happened in only two days. The poll on this forum was just as emphatically in favour of the Twins. For what it's worth, I think there would have been a small swing towards Brian, based on nothing more than a good performance in the "Story of the House" sketches. But nothing like what we got. I don't believe there was a big swing towards Brian. I still think even now that there are more Twins supporters. Explanations lie elsewhere.