- This topic has 27 replies, 16 voices, and was last updated 19 years, 3 months ago by
.
- Posts
If the gambling law in the next 12 months gets changed, bookies will be open 24 hrs….my Mums best friend is a Manager for Ladbrokes
Quote: from racinggirluk on 1:20 am on Mar. 22, 2007[br]If the gambling law in the next 12 months gets changed, bookies will be open 24 hrs….my Mums best friend is a Manager for Ladbrokes
That’s a rumour at best. There are several scare stories of this nature floating about bookies shops across the land. It would simply not be implementable. Theoretically, the law may allow it one day, but it will never be exercised to it’s fullest.
And @ betlarge: ‘inclined’ is such a strong word… ;)
Quote: from racinggirluk on 1:20 am on Mar. 22, 2007[br]If the gambling law in the next 12 months gets changed, bookies will be open 24 hrs….my Mums best friend is a Manager for Ladbrokes<br>
First I’ve heard of it.
Give it 5-10 years and there won’t be any big screens in the shops showing horse racing – just one machine in the corner.
- Total Posts 17716
Quote: from Mounty on 9:28 am on Mar. 22, 2007[br]Give it 5-10 years and there won’t be any big screens in the shops showing horse racing – just one machine in the corner.
Now, wouldn’t that be ironic?<br>The bookmakers convince racing to prostitute itself, use the ill gotten gains to open a mini- casino on every high street, then kick out its mistress when her attractions start to fade.<br>Frightening isn’t it, but whose to say it’s not already happening?:o <br>
(Edited by reet hard at 9:47 am on Mar. 22, 2007)
There will always be a place for horse racing in the bookies. But you’re right, they’ll stick in as many FOBTs as the law allows. Currently it’s 4, between FOBTs and slot machines. It will never go too high because of social responsibilities; the government won’t pass laws like that, there isn’t too much in it for them to encourage gambling addicts.
It doesn’t seem that many years ago, in the depths of winter that 10 minutes after the last race, the 3:15 at Sedgefield, my local Ladbrokes would be shut.
This winter back in December/January they were still open at 6:45pm. There were only two people in there and neither were customers.
Quote: from Friggo on 10:36 am on Mar. 22, 2007[br]There will always be a place for horse racing in the bookies. But you’re right, they’ll stick in as many FOBTs as the law allows. Currently it’s 4, between FOBTs and slot machines. It will never go too high because of social responsibilities; the government won’t pass laws like that, there isn’t too much in it for them to encourage gambling addicts.<br>
Might not be for the net good of the nation, even taking account of the 15%GPT and other business taxes, but I dare say that the individual ministers green lighting all these gambling reforms ain’t gonna be starving any time soon…
Quote: from Glenn on 2:17 pm on Mar. 22, 2007[br]
Might not be for the net good of the nation, even taking account of the 15%GPT and other business taxes, but I dare say that the individual ministers green lighting all these gambling reforms ain’t gonna be starving any time soon…
Cynical, but most probably true unfortunately.
As I was travelling to work one morning a few years back, I glanced to out of the cattle truck window to witness a full blown party going down in the morning sunshine.
There they were, on some urban memorial benches near the town. About fifteen partygoers, happy as larry, guzzling White Lightning, smoking the good stuff and talking animatedly in shell suits and old trainers.
This Hogarthian garden party was staged right across from Europe’s largest sanctuary for the Homeless, in Nottingham; where the rooms have portable televisions, self-regulated central heating, fresh linen and the travelling guests can borrow an X-Box 360 from the leisure library whenever they fancy a quiet night in.
It must have been giro day. Reading this thread reminded me of that morning.
There they’ll be in April, lucky souls; high as kites by eight, drunk as Lords by nine and now they can complete Gordon Brown’s Holy Trinity of Deregulated Leisure by being able to have an early doors Trap Challenge – all before most of us have finished our Americanos and doffed our caps to the Boss.
I’m not ever so sure whether all this freedom is a good thing or a bad one. Like Dolus, I remember restricted off-licence hours, telly closedown, and bookies which shut at four. None of that was much fun, was it?
- You must be logged in to reply to this topic.