Comments on: An Aside on Gambling

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Sat, 13 Nov 2004 15:44:55 +0000

Great post Richard, thanks. I hope you keep on top of this issue and give us all plenty of advance notice so we can have enough time to object to anything that starts moving on this subject — and I too hope it is true that the Government may soon be stepping back from their heavily pro-casino stance and that they send signals back to the US barracudas, thugs, loan sharks, money launderers, low-lkife punks and gangsters to bug off and make it clear the UK can’t be bought off. Tell them to go to France. We don’t want their dirty low life business on our shores. Tessa Jowell could be in for a rocky ride if this starts gaining any kind of momentum – I just saw a letter in my local paper that is generally about the number of seagulls around here and lack of parking spaces — someone wrote in on behalf of all Quakers – very eloquently but strongly opposing the Gambling Bill (in four years I’ve not seen a national issue thing – we are many hours away from Blackpool – in the local postbag of the weekly newspaper. If you want to see more objections – check out Clive Soley’s post on Gambling.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:23:11 +0000

Hi there Richard,
Is there any point in gambling that there will be any answers to “Software Patents”.
Only way of contacting you, especially as Tom-Watson seems to have gone to sleep !!.
Rgds Gordon.

By: slef-reflection

slef-reflection — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 13:08:05 +0000

Gambling in the UK
The UK government is currently proposing a new gambling bill…

By: Conor Caulfield

Conor Caulfield — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:03:55 +0000

Hi Richard , I was given your URI by Sarah Teather with specific relevance to the EU Sofware Patents Directive , which I oppose , but can’t resist a comment about the Gambling Bill .
It has been reported that US lobbyists are unhappy with the current restiction that bets above �700 must be accompanied by picture ID . The lobbyists apparently want this raised to �10,000 as is the current practice in the US . This sounds disasterous , apart from being damned cheeky ; these restictions are designed to protect UK citizens and should not be rescinded at the behest of industry lobbyists no matter wherefrom they hail . Any comments ? Thanks , Conor C.

By: Glyn

Glyn — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:08:05 +0000

Some thing I do find amusing and annoying at the same time, is that America does not allow uk gambling sites to target or offer services to Americans. You got to love their idea of free trade.