To: MPs
Tighter Control over Gambling Establishments in High Streets
Introduce greater control on gambling establishments.
Make it harder to borrow money from these places just to lose it gambling.
Make it harder to borrow money from these places just to lose it gambling.
Why is this important?
It's been bubbling in the background for years and having just watched a Panorama episode on iPlayer, I'm feeling quite angry/disappointed in the "establishment" which puts big business / profits ahead of the people.
We won against salt, we'll win against sugar, I switched suppliers thanks to 38 degrees ... the list goes on !!
I'm now talking about how highly addictive and family-destroying machines allow vulnerable people to spend hundreds or thousands of points in a few minutes ... money that haven't got!
Surely this should be better controlled?? Eg far lowed maximum caps, make it harder to borrow money from these places just to lose at gambling, etc etc.
"Lots has been done" and "We are doing a lot" - just pointless words while peoples live are ruined.
I was almost hooked when I was younger, because my friends were gamblers in their teens.
That was then and I now have teenage children of my own and it is SO EASY to get trapped.
I'm hope I'm not alone in this - it just seems so selfish of these businesses.
We won against salt, we'll win against sugar, I switched suppliers thanks to 38 degrees ... the list goes on !!
I'm now talking about how highly addictive and family-destroying machines allow vulnerable people to spend hundreds or thousands of points in a few minutes ... money that haven't got!
Surely this should be better controlled?? Eg far lowed maximum caps, make it harder to borrow money from these places just to lose at gambling, etc etc.
"Lots has been done" and "We are doing a lot" - just pointless words while peoples live are ruined.
I was almost hooked when I was younger, because my friends were gamblers in their teens.
That was then and I now have teenage children of my own and it is SO EASY to get trapped.
I'm hope I'm not alone in this - it just seems so selfish of these businesses.
