Afforabilty checks - where it all began?

George.

Met Kenny only once in the Mayflower at Cheltenham the day Honeysuckle won the mares. one of the nicest guys i have ever met. 1 know he has had a few issues but i wish he was back .
Ronnie.

Ronnie, it's a very revealing clip, as even then he talked of single view, with bookmakers sharing information on any one punter so that they can't reach their limit with one bookmaker and then simply move on to the next, and he concluded by saying that with this approach the number of problem gamblers would be much reduced from 400,000 within 3 - 5 years.

So it would appear to be the Big Corp bookies themselves who have brought AC's about.

George.
The wife and i were sat on the next table a matter of 18 inches away i Said well done today Mr Alexander we got chatting and after about 5 mins he askes what i do i say i work for you Kenny and advice him to try the Peking Duck. When i go to pay the bill the owner says to me the bill has been paid.

The origin of it all was the gambling act "review", which started in early 2020. Bookies obviously played along with the idea. The GC issued a consultation in late 2020, got 12k responses, entirely ignored them and never published the results.

I suspect that the purpose of that "consultation" was to tell the bookies what was expected of them and they had no intention of wading through the responses.

They then revived the checks in the gambling white paper and once again we will see them ignore the responses to the consultation next month.

Incredible! Yet another clueless clown who's somehow blagged his way into top Jobs in the industry. On one of the first threads on here about the introduction of ACs. I posted jokingly that people should be allocated a quota on how many Alcoholic drinks you can buy during each 24 hour period. You'd have a personal electronic card which you'd have to use every time you buy a drink. This way you can't sneak in a few extra drinks by going to another pub. That's exactly what this clown is suggesting should happen for someone who enjoys a bet. And now it's actually going to happen.

I was laughing when I wrote out my post.....


community.betfair.com/horse_racing/go/thread/view/94102/31679763/gambling-act-review?origpost_id=560240317

Some really good posts on that thread.