Gambling Addiction

[Hymie]

I think I read somewhere recently that one person a week commits suicide in the UK over their gambling debts.

If the company I worked for was selling a product or service that resulted in such harm to their clients – I’m sure that they would be shut down pronto.
But what with our MPs receiving massive bungs from the gambling industry, that ain’t going to happen anytime soon.

Coroner’s have considerable power in relation to the cause of death (and to stop similar deaths) – if as a coroner, it was clear that gambling debts and the way the deceased was treated by the betting firm, were responsible for the death – I would mandate that the betting firm take corrective action to stop any future such deaths.

Despite the gambling firms giving MPs bungs to stop any further regulation – the writing is on the wall (much like mobile phone roaming charges for people within the EU). If I were a betting company, my TV adverts would be modified to say something like ‘someone wins every 20 seconds on Jackpot Joe, and 100 people lose every second.’

Such a change in advertising my go some way to placating gambling firm critics, but I doubt it would change the habits of gamblers.

Just in case you are starting to feel sorry for the gambling industry, read this:-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11177611/Britains-biggest-betting-bosses-earn-100m-seven-years-dwarfing-fines-slapped-companies.html