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Anti-Gambling Campaigners Insist on 1% Mandatory Levy on All Gambling Operators to Fund Problem Gambling Treatment Wed 7 Aug 2019 7.48 Olivia Cole The largest gambling operators in the UK have recently pledged that they will increase their voluntary contribution to the country’s Government to help the latter tackle rising problem gambling rates. MPs back campaign against betting machines dubbed 'the crack cocaine of gambling' A cross-party group has written to the Culture Secretary calling for a reduction in betting amounts to protect. In 2016, the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (VRGF) anti-gambling campaign focused on sport betting and the rise in problem teenage gamblers. Their campaign was to alert parents, teachers and society of the alarming statistics related to sport betting and children. Watson was always a vocal anti-gambling campaigner in his time as an MP, and he spoke a number of times in the Houses of Parliament about problem gambling and its associated societal impacts. He also campaigned for more stringent legislation for the betting industry. Anti-gambling campaigners have condemned the machines, saying they let players lose money too quickly, leading to addiction and social, mental and financial problems. Terry White lost up to £15,000.
A series of adverts by The Campaign for Fairer Gambling will be allowed to continue after the ASA failed to uphold a complaint against the company. The Campaign for Fairer Gambling has been running a series of ad campaigns, in protest to Fixed Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs), that is the roulette and gaming machines popping up at bookmakers around the country, and now the ads can continue to run.
It was Phillip Davies, MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Betting and Gaming who lodged the complaint with the ASA, although he did so in a personal capacity, taking umbrage to the wording of the campaign, calling FOBTs a ‘scourge on the high street’, ‘addictive roulette content’, ‘the crack cocaine of gambling’, ‘exploitative to poorer communities’ and ‘highly addictive’. These are strong words, and the MP felt that the claims were misleading.
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In response, Prime Table Games (Who run online poker rooms and gaming portals themselves), responded by saying that the claims are based within the opinions of The Campaign for Fairer Gambling and that was clear from the wording. They then went on to say that the terms and opinions used in the campaign were the general feeling across ‘social media commentary’ and articles in several newspapers and media campaigns. Answering the suggestion that the games are highly addictive, they responded that this was a no brainer, it’s a known fact that gambling can be addictive and that the FOBTs offered roulette. As for the scathing ‘crack cocaine of gambling’ the company responded that the term was coined by the media back in 2003.
In what will surely be seen as a win for free speech, if not a win for the high street FOBTs, the ASA did not uphold any part of the complaint, and that means the adverts will be able to run in their current form, describing the FOTBs in terms heard in the media, and now in this magazine campaign.
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While we understand the Campaign for Fairer Gambling’s cause, the fact that the company behind the campaign is a producer of table games themselves, we are left pondering a little on what their motives actually are.