Dear Andy Burnham,
I have no doubt that many campaigners breathed a collective sigh of relief after you announced that the planned super-casino in Manchester is to be scrapped. Having said this, Labour is still more than happy to let gambling destroy the lives of millions of people just to get their hands on more corporation tax.
The fact that the super-casino will not be built is irrelevant, seeing as you are still happy for 16 large casinos to be built around the country. To say there are “important differences” between one super-casino and 16 large ones is a ridiculous argument, seeing as the total amount of gambling that will be encouraged is far greater with 16 separate casinos and will do more damage to British society over a larger area. I bet the casino owners will be quaking in their boots at the pathetic ’safeguards’ you have outlined. Forcing casinos to shut for six hours a day limits the public to a mere 18 hours of solid gambling a day, which is hardly going to protect anyone. Banning credit card use is also ridiculous as many people on low incomes don’t have credit cards or will just pop to the hole-in-the-wall beforehand or receive benefit payments in cash - all of which will sidestep the ban, and banning free drink promotions is such a token gesture that I don’t even know where to begin criticising it.
Gambling destroys careers, families and lives. You know that, I know that, everyone knows that. Labour’s obsession with trying to get more corporation tax through gambling just to fill the black holes in the public purse is preying on the weak and is completely wrong.
Yours angrily,
A.Tory
4 responses so far ↓
beachhutman // February 27, 2008 at 2:02 pm
The point is, Labour doesn’t give a flying folk about decency, poverty, right or wrong, and especially not about the views of the electorate. If the bastards survive the next election, they will try again for their super casino crime magnet - the bribes have almost certainly been paid.
Letters From A Tory // February 27, 2008 at 2:13 pm
It is certainly ironic that for a party who pride themselves on standing up for the working class that they are happy to screw as much money out of them as they possibly can, regardless of the human cost.
Andrew // February 27, 2008 at 3:08 pm
A new stealth tax? Lets call it a fun tax
Letters From A Tory // February 27, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I like that. Not content with spying on us, they now want to stop us having fun as well.
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