For me this is the greatest 5 minutes ever given to the discussion on gambling regulation beautifully edited by Chris Fawcett
The man speaking is Dan Waugh - and he's an absolute expert in gambling and gambling harm matters
Please share. Especially if you work on racing dogs or horses
Betting shops are licensed, regulated, taxed, and employ tens of thousands of people.
Grouping them with “dodgy businesses” isn’t a serious description of a regulated sector.
It’s also aimed at the wrong target. Betting shops: 8,822 → 5,872 over the decade. Adult gaming: 1,610 → 1,502. Barbers: 2,953 → 18,078. Takeaways: 2,882 → 13,478.
Whatever has reshaped the high street, it isn’t gambling premises. And with each new announcement, more jobs are lost.
"Tone deaf. Childish in the extreme"
@MCYeeehaaa says racing has bigger issues to solve after news that The Jockey Club are to leave the RCA... #ChapmansCall
“ARMEGGEDON is close. And so few people in racing seem to really believe it.
A brilliant Royal Ascot, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Glorious Goodwood just paper over the cracks. Don’t be fooled.
Last week it was announced 132 Betfred betting shops will close with the loss of 600 jobs.
In 2016 there were around 9000 betting shops in Britain. At its peak there were in the region of 16,000.
My belief is that many in power in racing are blasé - in the extreme - about betting and betting shop closures.
The feeling most seem to have is racing will survive and the show will just go on.
Someone in power has to grasp and grasp quickly that we are close to armageddon.
You might think a few hundred betting shops here and there will make no difference.
But we are now at the point where every single closure brings the sport closer to destruction.”
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