Should the Government Relax Gambling Laws?

I live in Northern Ireland and me and all my friends gamble and even my girlfriend. We are just a small number of the majority of Northern Ireland. Matchdays would not be the same and also it makes sport more intresting. Anyway there is so many bookmaker shops all over Northern Ireland. In some roads in Belfast there are like five or six bookmakers on the same road. Belfast is always been a busy place for gamblers. The only bad thing is that all the bookmakers close on a sunday. This is not of their own choice it is to do with religion. As sunday is meant to be the day of rest and it is the sabath. The religion is that no gambling on Sunday keep Sunday ...  Read the complete review

For once I have chosen to write on a serious note, as the subject is inherently an extremely serious problem. I am writing about the increase in gambling as a past time and as a serious method of making money. Gambling is fast becoming one of this countries biggest industries, millions are made each year by the collective companies who offer gamblers the attractive lure of free money. In the past gambling was restricted to bookmakers, small casinos, pub games and in house events. But in this, the age of technology it has taken off, and has surged into the public psyche as an inescapable entity, dominating advertising space in all kinds of unlikely forums. Dependency ...  Read the complete review

Firstly I will declare an interest in as much as  I have been connected to the Gaming Industry for some thirty years. To understand the current situation within the United Kingdom and the proposals for the future it is useful to first briefly look at the history of gaming and betting legislation in this country. This goes back to the nineteenth century, the law students amongst you will probably be able to dig out some earlier case law but I am looking at political oversight of gambling. 1845 Gaming Act made wagering contracts unenforceable at law, thus starting the long train of unforeseen consequences connected to gaming legislation, initiating  the ...  Read the complete review

Jesus: Thou shalt not gamble. It is a sin, and besides, anyone with half a brain can see that the mathematical odds are so highly stacked against the gambler that he is certain to lose eventually. Gamblers are losers. Thank you Jesus. But I think you are being a little unfair. If we cast our gambling fishing rod into the murky depths of greater spiritual significance, we may be surprised at what we find. Take my hand Jesus, here we go: [a choir of angels sings 'Evergreen'] I will give you an example of a religious gamble where nobody loses; an example composed by one (modesty forces me to admit) greater than myself. ...  Read the complete review

New Labors directive to allow Vegas style casinos to spring up is just another way to tax the costly underclass. They passed similar laws in Australia, which gobbled up 20%of unemployment cheque revenue from this particular sector in the first month of the operation. The government kept half of that in betting tax and rentals from the massive hotel gambling complexes. With the equally blatant national lottery tax and loss of giggy tax through smuggling here in the UK no longer forefilling its remit to fleece the lower classes, they have had to pep up the lucrative revenue sector by revolutionizing this countries by laws. Ok most teen and young mums round ...  Read the complete review