Why is anyone surprised that bookmakers are “taking advantage” of the poor, the gullible, the luckless and the foolish? In a story I read today, a severely disabled man was helped by Paddy Power and Ladbroke Coral to squander the compensation money he had received after a botched hospital operation. Over three years he lost more than £500,000. Taking advantage of people isn’t some unfortunate by-product of the gambling industry; it’s precisely what they exist to do. And asking betting companies to regulate themselves is like putting foxes in charge of a hen-house…
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