Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Who'd have thought it, Bookies really do target deprived areas.
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Permalink Reply by Protheroe O'Shea on
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It's all OK everybody. The new bookmakers gambling code allows gamblers to set their own limits. Phew......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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You never know, gambling companies might knock themselves out :)
Ladbrokes said it expected to close between 40 and 50 shops this year because of rising operating costs and higher rents as the economy recovers.
The trend is towards 'online', like everything else. Soon we'll only have coffee shops & chicken shacks on our high streets.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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The trend is towards 'online',
This is why the bricks'n mortar betting shops are seeking further slackening of gambling laws, beyond the Gambling Act 2005. A further slackening would enable them better able to compete with web companies like bet365, that made a huge donation before that Act, to the political party that was in power at the time.
As for TW's link about gamblers to set their own limits – this is a token gesture towards a token gesture.
Conceptually, it's a minor extension of the ability of gamblers to "self-exclude". Not only are problem gamblers unlikely to avail themselves of that "service", there has been some evidence that it anyway doesn't always work.
Apparently, The code was welcomed by the government, but it said "more could be done". Ain't that the truth. More also needs to be done by the current government, to undo the social damage wrought by the previous government's dreadful Act.
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Highgate Ward | Liberal Democrat Party
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Meanwhile in Covent Garden not even the bookies can afford the rent;
Rents rise in Covent Garden as it achieves luxury status
Used to enjoy a cake & coffee at the coffee shop that was there for years on the corner, until that god awful soulless Apple Store pushed them out. Globalisation suxs!
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