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I have some more questions about the gambling industry's "dodgy dossier", apparently aimed at influencing the govenrment's gambling review.
1. Why did @BetGameCouncil, @WilliamHillPLC and @EntainGroup refuse to show me the full report?
(1/?) https://twitter.com/ByRobDavies/status/1351076349373513736
1. Why did @BetGameCouncil, @WilliamHillPLC and @EntainGroup refuse to show me the full report?
(1/?) https://twitter.com/ByRobDavies/status/1351076349373513736
2. Why did @EntainGroup and @WilliamHillPLC take their names off the title page of the report in between the draft version and the final version? Why did Stars Group take its name off altogether?
3. The report is dated July 2019. If the gambling industry is SO concerned about the threat posed by the black market review, why wait until now to publish? Might it have anything to do with the upcoming gambling review?
4. The PwC report estimates 200,000 consumers using black market websites but the regulator reckons the report made no attempt to distinguish between real visits and those by bots/automated systems. Seems like a huge omission. Why?
5. The @BetGameCouncil managed to get the Sun on Sunday to do this write-up of the report. Where does the claim about "thousands of teens" come from? It's certainly not in the report. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13527723/teens-blowing-1-4billion-black-market-gambling/
6. Was commissioning a consultancy to write them a report just a deliberate repeat of the tactic deployed by betting lobbyists trying to avoid curbs on FOBTs? Admittedly that very nearly worked... https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/12/government-fobt-decision-discredited-report
Even though the FOBT report proved to be just the kind of exercise in exaggeration that @GamRegGB seems to think the black market one is. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/nov/30/jobs-impact-of-curbs-on-fixed-odds-betting-terminals-overstated
