The decline in pre-race liquidity

sharks eat the fish...bookmaker takes over exchange..

a fine cistern.

Every 5 minutes.
Inrunning some big gaps

average race a tenner fred...make more 3am in toon sat nite 3am waiting for the pi$$ heads to drop some money.

Rico that's Prince Monolulesque very well put about the sharks.

thank you

Not at all surprised by those figures, GB. Making the game pay pre race is already getting much more difficult. I can't see how it can be done once the affordablity checks become law.

What is the actual point of the Conservative party? What exactly do they Conserve with regards to a British way of life? The party is full of Labour goons who are just helping to lay down the foundations for the actual Labour party to finish the job and completely destroy British Horse Racing.

Instead of trying to blame labour pointlessly, people should have focused on getting the Tories to actually do anything useful in the gambling arena.

My point is I'd fully expect this under a Labour Party. You can expect them to be fully on board with Affordability Checks once they're in power after the next GE. But how has it even got to this stage under a Conservative Government?

Is it really pointless to blame Labour? Have they not pressurised the current government into acting?

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/labours-next-manifesto-must-ta...

I agree with your point and surprise that the Tories have given gambling this treatment over their many many many years in power.

A few people here asleep at the time or maybe just forgot all this.

And I don't support the affordabilty checks and the present attitudes to gambling but get the facts right please.



Analysis
Tony Blair’s bet on gambling Britain has spiralled out of control
Rob Davies
Nearly two decades after New Labour revolutionised the gambling industry, millions of lives are being harmed for industry profits

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Thu 15 Jun 2023 09.00 BST
The phenomenal rise of the UK gambling industry owes much to reforms, introduced by Tony Blair, that flipped the state’s attitude to sports betting and casino gaming on its head.

At the turn of the century, the government recognised that betting and gaming, in particular online, could not be prohibited and ought, instead, to be properly regulated.

But the 2005 Gambling Act went much further than that, in line with New Labour’s light-touch approach to business.

The new regulatory landscape meant that gambling could be aggressively advertised, rather than simply tolerated. Britain’s bookmakers and online casinos were now to be celebrated as the vanguard of a truly world-leading industry, creating jobs and paying taxes.

Vote Reform, theu'll let people get on with there lives, and take the consequences.
This Govt and Labour think we are all 5 years old.
Sir Kier wants to employ people in schools to teach children how to brush there teeth FFS.

Good idea to vote for that reform lot should cost the Tories a few more seats.

whichever way we look at it, by the time Labour get in it won't make much difference to gambling, as the Tories will already have done their worst.

I agree Stu. My point being I thought the "bloody Tories" were heartless bas-tards. So why are they making Labour like moves on this? Why do they feel compelled to? Why have they allowed Horse Racing & muggy Casino games be allowed to lumped together. It's  like the Conservatives aren't really Conservative at all.

If you believe some people's views (posted in some earlier threads on the politics of all this) it's because there are hidden forces such as quangoes and pressure groups hidden behind or within the tories - but it doesn't change the fact that it is the Tories that created many of these forces themselves, or at least allowed them to become forces. Why? I don't know. But maybe because they thought it would make them popular in votes? Blew that one too.