Labour Is The Poker Party
SAYS Roy Hattersley: “We’re the slot machine party
To make casinos profitable, new gamblers have to be attracted to their tables. It will be gullible local citizens from Wolverhampton and Hull, not Hong Kong millionaires and the Las Vegas super-rich, whose money the casino owners take home. The Government knows it. That is why it attempts to obscure its shame by introducing “safeguards” that objective observers agree will be largely ineffective. At a time when the Home Office proposes another “crackdown on serious crime”, the casinos would undoubtedly attract an international army of undesirables.
Casinos are regulated, not illegal. Unlike Labour, their funding is not so murky. What is an undesirable – a liar, politician, a lawyer? And what of entertainment – casino have theatres, eateries and resorts?
Posted: 19th, February 2008 | In: Sports Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
