Fixed-odds betting terminals are very recent innovation, so it is rubbish that the betting shops would go bust without them. Just ban them outright.
We also need the empowerment of local authorities to limit the number of gambling venues, the use of that power, an end to gambling on television, an end to the advertising of gambling other than at venues such as casinos and betting shops, and the writing into the Statute Law of the rules introduced last month by the Competitions and Markets Authority against the sharp practices of the gambling industry.
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They've already climbed down, as good as, on banning combustible cladding, so it shouldn't be too hard to make them climb down on banning FOBTs too.
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