Bookmakers sign up to voluntary watchdog

[betlarge]

And of course voluntary watchdogs have such a proud history in this country (look at the sterling work of the Press Complaints Commission for example)! This is a bona fide case of jumping before you’re pushed if ever there was one.

I still can’t believe that bookmakers are allowed to advertise to the UK’s children via pre-watershed adverts surrounding sporting events.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/15/bookmakers-voluntary-watchdog-senet-group

Mike

[steveh31]

And of course voluntary watchdogs have such a proud history in this country (look at the sterling work of the Press Complaints Commission for example)! This is a

bona fide

case of jumping before you’re pushed if ever there was one.

I still can’t believe that bookmakers are allowed to advertise to the UK’s children via pre-watershed adverts surrounding sporting events.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/15/bookmakers-voluntary-watchdog-senet-group

Mike

Sigh, they are not advertising to children they are advertising to adults in the same way Bodyform is not advertising to you Betlarge and every other man watching.

The adverts are for adults if children are watching that is not their problem.

[eddie case]

It’s purely a smokescreen to try and protect their FOBT’s, why they were allowed to have them in the first place beggars belief.

[betlarge]

Sigh, they are not advertising to children they are advertising to adults…if children are watching that is not their problem.

No, it’s not the bookmakers’ problem. But then it never is.

However, it’s certainly ours. Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, director of the NHS gambling clinic, says there are an estimated 60,000-plus children in Britain with gambling problems already.

I truly question the morality of a society that is happy to see endless gambling advertisements around sporting events that are obviously watched by millions of children.

If bookmakers are allowed to advertise at all, I believe it should be strictly post-watershed or even later.

Or preferably not at all.

Mike

[Cav]

Does all of this "voluntary" stuff, have to do with the new "continuation licence" required by the Gambling Commission.

The application has to be in by midnight tonight.

http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/gh … apply.aspx

[tony321]

I don’t think it is the shops that cause the gambling problem it is all the online gambling sites with no regulation and a market free for all with no protection for the vulnerable.

That is something that needs looking at and sorting out.

[yeats]

"We will commit to everything, just please don’t take away our FOBT’s or make us lay a bet".

SCUM

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