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Gambling Advertisements on Television Are Morally Wrong
Here is one word to describe the Government's decision to allow casinos, betting shops and websites to advertise on television and radio - WRONG. It is morally wrong.
Ministers describes the decision as'liberalising the law', but the truth is that it is simply news-speak for selling out to the dubious tycoons of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
They are barely more corrupting that the football pools. And they do not reach out to ensnare vulnerable men and women who would never think of gambling were it not represented to them as an essential part of a successful life.
But encouraging the invasion of international syndicate was worse than reckless. It was an acceptance that big-time gambling - with all the suffering we know it causes - would be imported into Britain.
Allowing such people into Britain was bad enough. But this week's announcement about allowing TV advertising amounted to an invitation to the casino bosses to spread their pernicious tentacles over parts of the country which have been happily insulted from their avarice and greed.
Advertising will encourage an increase in gambling. Allowing the promotion of gambling by TV advertisements is morally wrong. Some people desperately hang on waiting for the day when Labour regains it ethnical balance.
So much for the Government's claim that it wishes only to meet an already established demand.
Sunday, August 27 , 2006
Edward O'Connor