Hearthly wrote:
A bold and brave government would face down the industry and cap them to £2 per play, £500 jackpot, minimum payout 94% on all random games.
They'd keep stakes and prizes the same on AWPs, and mandate a minimum payout of 86%. (Besides which AWPs already have a jackpot of £150, since all Betcoms + clones (which are most machines now) are capped to £150 on the red mega.)
They'd ban all 'kiddy gambling' (£5 jackpot machines) completely.
Hang on, who was it again who massively expanded and liberalised hard gambling in this Country?
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Gambling liberalisation introduced by the former Labour government was a "mistake" and has ruined people's lives, the party's deputy leader Harriet Harman has admitted.
Harman called for action to reverse measures in the Gambling Act, which allowed the proliferation of betting shops in poor areas, many of them operating high-stakes roulette terminals.
Research conducted for Channel 4's Dispatches suggested that British punters lost more than £1bn last year on the fixed-odds betting terminals (Fobt machines), which allow bets of up to £100 every 30 seconds on touch-screen roulette games.
Fobt machines first appeared in the UK in 2001 and the 2005 act introduced a limit of four for each betting shop in England and Wales.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/aug ... law-harmanSo then, another great move by Labour, and now it's up to the Tories to sweep up the social fall-out and the mess. Maybe a "bold government" wouldn't have introduced these ubiquitous, monstrous life-wreckers on every street corner in the first place... the hypocrisy of Corbyn/Watson now; it's breath-taking.
Besides which, you're seriously *still* advocating "traditional" (i.e. non-random, totally bent) fruit machines, which even by yours and my bitter experiences rip lives apart, precisely because they are bent and in reality often no chance of winning at all, let alone 86%? What good is 86% if it's mostly being paid out to pro players as 'accounted for' wins? How do you square this with those videos of machines being "done" you posted, just a few days ago?
I was listening to some twat from 'the industry' on R4 this morning, seriously arguing in favour of £100/spin using the old alcohol/'we don't ban vodka because of alcoholics' analogy. Seriously? I had to switch it off. Ban 'em all, and take your shit betting shops with you.
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