2007-01-30 04:17:44 · 6 answers · asked by croneruk 2 in Games & Recreation ➔ Gambling
Did anyone ask the British people if Jason Smith from Wolverhampton could open a corner shop selling lottery tickets, cigarettes and teeth-rotting candy? Of course not.
Britain is a free country. If a company wants to open a business and people are willing to go to it to spend their money, what is the problem?
Millions of people in the UK like to gamble. Notice how there is a bookie in every town, a slot machine in every pub, lottery sales in every store, casinos in most major cities, online gambling, amusement arcades in most towns, and 23 million people with at least one premium bond?
It is quite clear that there is a genuine interest in gambling in the UK. Why else would a company want to open a casino in the first place?
Quality casinos make great tax revenue, offer plenty of non-gambling entertainment, create employment, and offer fun for adults. The occasional person may become addicted to gambling and ruin their lives. But if you are going to use that as a yard stick to judge a business you'd ban smoking, drinking, driving over 30 MPH, prescription drugs (people get addicted to pain killers), fast food, motorbikes, knives and much more.
The government does not need to turn the UK into a total nanny state where everything that has the potential to be abused is banned. The fact is adult life is full of danger. There are all kinds of things that have the potential to harm people, it just isn't possible, or advisable to ban them all.
2007-01-30 09:43:52 · answer #1 · answered by ZCT 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will cause family misery and breakup, increase violent crime (robberies committed to try to get losses back) and is a retrograde step by a 'caring, socialist government.'
Add to this 24-hour drinking, jails too full to put criminals in and already gigantic debt problems and you have a country fast becoming a horrible, confused mess.
Could anyone sort this all out? I doubt it.
2007-01-30 04:31:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well no one has asked me yet,anyway life is a big enough gamble I would have thought the only people to benefit from these casinos are the owners and the govenment.
2007-01-30 04:39:54 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I certainly didn't here about the petitions demanding that we have huge, foreign-owned, casinos. But maybe I missed something.
2007-01-30 04:32:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been apparent for a while that the government is bought and paid for by international corporations. Now it looks as if they are in the pockets of American mobsters.
2007-01-30 04:38:17 · answer #5 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's called an election, there'll be one coming along soon.
If you don't want them then vote for the Party who says they'll stop them.
2007-01-30 07:37:28 · answer #6 · answered by stephen t 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋