Cassetteboy - Regulate (The Gambling Industry)

This is a personal one for us, online gambling does enormous harm in the UK and reform to the gambling laws is very very overdue

[odysyr]

Mad editing skills, you made Sunak sound like a human being with feelings!

[peterbrailey]

Spot on. They banned alcohol and tobacco advertising and replaced them with gambling and life ruining loans. Great stuff Cassette

[LillyP-xsqe]

Let's remember that the UK decided that loot boxes in FIFA is fine for kids, even when all the experts said lootboxes in video games is gambling

[OllyRoberton]

As a recovering addict I am glad you are putting this message out there, and as an amateur film-maker myself I respect the time and work it takes to isolate and chop up all these words…🙂👍👏

[StuartWooster]

I hate being targeted by gambling ads. There should be at the very least options on all major platforms to opt-out of ads for gambling, alcohol, etc.

[Merlincat]

Yes! Also we should address video game lootboxes (basically gambling) and their similar tiny percentage of players who make up the majority of their profits by spending thousands each.

[curiositykillingcat]

Thank you. Every poor area's got a betting shop, even if they've got bugger all else. They prey on people who are already in a bad way.

[AndrewKay]

If you see a gambling ad on social media, report it as a scam. It only takes three clicks on Facebook.

[Google_Does_Evil_Now]

"86% of profits can be traced, to just 5% of their customer base"

Omg.
Harrowing.
Cruel.

[martineyles]

The introduction of the National Lottery made it very hard for the government to be against gambling - replacing government funding with money extracted from the vulnerable. Official lotto scratch cards have only made matters worse.

[deanbrown]

Had a uncle lose his family home to gambling, pretty horrific really always chasing loses to the point his wife and two kids had one day to pack up and leave home when he finally confessed to his addiction.

[larrysellers]

Ive bet a handful of times in my life. I opened up an account once and put a £250 bet on the boxing (I was so sure!😫) For the next four months I had personalised calls from the same very polite staff member offering me free bets and all sorts of incentives. I refused to majority of them and explained that I wasn’t really a gambler. If I was however, they would have milked me dry. All the while chatting to me like we were the dearest of friends.

[mknoyle]

Thank you for this. Gambling is among the scummiest industries in the world, and it's managed to worm its way into almost all other forms of entertainment out there, and legislators seem happy to let this happen. It's disgusting. Can't believe 2005 was the last serious review of regulation. Smartphone have put slot machines in everyone's pockets, and there's never been a review. It's shameful.

[pastorofmuppets]

Same issue in Australia.
The World needs to act on this.

[jansmith]

Thank you so much, Cassette Boy, for highlighting these issues. They are not much in the news, but should not be overlooked. The failure of the Government and Opposition parties to tackle gambling is a mark of national shame.

[clemfandango]

Maximum respect for this one CassetteBoy, as always…..

[seraaron]

As a former gambling auditor, it is still absolutely disgusting to me how lax the gambling laws in the UK are. I left the industry pretty quick after finding out how bad it was. I just didn't feel clean taking money that was ultimately derived from such greed and dishonesty.

[mikeharrison]

Breaks my heart. I often see gambling ads. Grrrr.

[balaurizburatori]

Brilliant choice of a beat xD Can't think of anything that would suit this better.

[liammurty]

Having Kier say the bit about hospitality to the Tories is genius