Yeah his £500k spend on this campaign has certainly got his message across. It is a shame that our media Dispatches, Panorama, Inside Out, Mail, Express, Independent, Guardian, Sunday People and more are all agreed....why do we have no media diversity at all?
The research shows Problem Gambling in Scotland in 1999 before these machines were introduced was 0.7% in 2012 after they sucked the soul it was 0.7%
The number of bookies has been stable over the decade. It is a myth that we have many more, they have just moved to busier locations.
As for that video and the games, the B2 games are random. They are tested as such and would be illegal if they were not random. I have seen the video, it does not show a lack of randomness and showed 36 coming once not three times. I have also seen a video of a maxed bet on one number winning. The machines are random, the video edit is not.
In 2010 4% of adults used FOBTs. It is a shame that this minority is targeted for a ban, if they get their way on this watch out, you could be next. The addiction rate for online slots was in 2010 significantly higher than for FOBTs. Online is next on the list.
First they came for the FOBT players,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a FOBT player.