National Lottery Price Rise

[beejay1124]

The price of a national lottery ticket doubles to £2 this Saturday-will you still be doing it (if you currently do it) ?

[janbee]

Camelot say they need more money to be able to help more good causes. Yeah right, like Camelot give a rat's bahookie about good causes!!!.

[Gromit]

Yes.

Saturday, they have 1000 x £20,000 prizes to be won.

I'm not greedy, two or three of those would be nice.

[beejay1124]

will still do my 2 lines of the same numbers - wud hate for them to come up-

[ummmm]

My OH will still do it.

[Gromit]

Good causes?

Ah yes, George Osborne gets 12% Duty from every ticket sold, so he will rake in over £1billion a year from now on.

[beejay1124]

some 'good causes' that have been funded are farcical

[WELSHYORKIE]

I will do it this Saturday because of the 'extra special' stuff going on but after that it'll be just hotpicks

[paddywak]

We've decided to continue with the Saturday lotto but not the Wednesday one so they wont make any more cash from us.The syndicate I'm in are changing to the Health Lottery,in fact most people I know who run syndicates are doing the same.

[factor-fiction]

Buying them is optional, of course.
It won't affect the number of entries I make as I have never bought one. Many people may just buy half as many tickets as before so the effect may not be as great as Camelot hope.
Gromit is correct about the 12% duty but of course it goes to the Treasury not to George Osborne or whichever chancellor is going to be at number 11 after the next election.

[beejay1124]

some of the prizes are going up- eg £25 for 3 numbers - but other prizes are being lowered too
paddy- is the health lottery only in mainland UK ?

[lozzer50]

i used to do it online but ive cancelled my account now

[Dee Sa]

I agree with welshy extra prizes this Saturday so will do it but forego the Thunderball. Next time no thanks. Thinking of transferring my allegiance to the Health lottery instead.

[mrs_overall]

I am undecided.
My problem is that I have had the same numbers since day one and they are burned into my brain.
If I stopped doing the lottery and the numbers came up......

[murraymints]

Will probably do one on Sat one on Wed...but no more !

[Cloverjo]

I used to do 6 lines every Saturday, but stopped a few years ago. If I still did it, I'd probably reduce it to 3.

If you don't want to keep paying, but are scared your numbers will come up if you stop, just don't look at the results. It's highly unlikely anyway.

[weecalf]

Site is closed all morning .I could be 10 quid richer don't know .

[B00]

The site will be up and running later today weecalf. The System, especially our lotto machine at work are on overdrive gearing up for Saturday :-)

[Baldric]

It's gone the best part of 20 years without an increase, not many things have managed that. Having said that, we will be halving the number of Lotto entries we do, and keeping Thunderball the same atm.

[Baldric]

Weecalf, . . . Results here

http://www.lottery.co.uk/results/lotto-results.asp

[weecalf]

Do they ever say what those scratch cards bring in .They should not be allowed because they do encourage gambling .If its the lottery you have to wait to see results .The scratch card you know in seconds and try to recoup your losses .Could they not have like a scale of what you place like as in the bookies .If you buy £2 ticket you get full amount of winning .If you just bought one pound ticket you get half of prize .Would give employment as it would take a lot more working out so every one wins