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As is the F*** the workers attitude with regards to people working in meeting shops by certain hard left Corbynista's on here.
I should have been clearer given the audience, I wanted to acknowledge the many contractors who faced issues when Carrillion went tits up. As a company they didn't employ that many people, perhaps the largest impact was felt by those who were self employed and they shouldn't be forgotten in all of this.
If the public think this measure solves a major societal problem then why should they protest? I am really struggling to understand your point. I personally don't think it solves a problem because it will just push it online. I would love a more ethical gambling industry.
State sponsored incompetence and most the people responsible won't suffer the consequences of it.
There are also 40k people employed in the gambling sector with around 9k betting shops on the high street. The trade body, the Association of British Bookmakers, estimates that 4k shops and 21k people will lose their jobs as a direct consequence of the reduction in stakes for fixed odds machines. Apparently the sector that has remained reasonably stable in the number of shops and employees for the best part of a decade is suddenly going to lose over half its workforce and 45% of its high street footprint due to apparent over-reliance on these machines as the key source of income. A more prudent industry perhaps would have worked out the odds and spread the risk to avoid this apparent overdependency. Perhaps Carillion isn't the only industry to suffer as a consequence of corporate incompetence
Conversely perhaps the trade estimates are a little, shall we say, frothy. Still we live in an age where people believed that £350m a week extra will be pumped into the NHS as a direct consequence of Brexit so having these as the basis of an argument are as good as any I suppose.
Have read a few accounts of staff at high street bookmakers and they all had the same tone. The companies saw it as a gravy train, they knew the machines at their current stakes had a limited shelf life and they just pushed it on 'customers' until it was over. Government have threatened this for a long while. In the thread on the main board I posted an idea that was also presented during these accounts that the reason the government are taking this action has more to do with the fact that the machines, to some extent, are being used to clean dirty cash. Not sure how prevalent that is but it is a feasible theory.