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Tonight is your final evening to finally get round to making a submission to the Gambling Commission consultation. This unelected QUANGO will be making changes to license holders which will probably mean deposit limits will come in and customers will face intrusive checks...
It would be hard to argue that the industry have done a great job over the years with safeguarding customers but many may think asking for a P60, bank statements and company accounts to deposit £150 a months a step too far and a blow to civil liberties...
Those who argue that these measures will help avoid the problem gambling which nobody wants to see might want to remember that this government spend very little on mental health services and unless there is a plan to deal with sufferers it's all a bit pointless...
If you are like me and enjoy horse racing, a sport that employs many people and gives many more a lot of enjoyment, then you need to realise that this is happening and that a massive drop in betting turnover will potentially totally kill the sport...
You might think that all these companies have had it too good for too long, that they should have thought about all this when they became casinos and tried to cross sell harmful products to small punters, but feeling this and not telling the Gambling Commission won't help much...
You might be sitting at home thinking that you're someone who doesn't gamble often but loves to play at Cheltenham, or Royal Ascot, or at the start of the football season and you deposit a large amount infrequently and you don't want any unelected bureaucrats stopping that...
You might be someone who bets odds-on chances and stakes a lot more than average but returns most of the money back and you don't want to switch to betting smaller amounts on long odds to try and avoid the intrusive checks...
You might believe that it would be easy for companies to separate out casino gambling and addictive games from the sports betting and horse racing that you think of as a hobby and not an addiction or a vice. You need to tell them...
Whatever you think about the whole thing you have a chance to tell someone and you can be sure that the betting firms and the people campaigning to stop gambling have made their case. What is really needed is "normal punters". Here is the website... https://consult.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/author/remote-customer-interaction-consultation-and-call/consult_view/
