Chair of Responsible Gambling Trust lobbied on behalf of gambling industry as his organisation began research into fixed-odds betting terminals The chair of the UK’s main charity that aims to minimise gambling addiction also lobbied on behalf of Britain’s bookmakers and warned his corporate peers of the threat posed by a vociferous ((adj.) loud, boisterous) anti-gambling lobby”,according to industry documents seen by the Guardian. In a paper drawn up in January 2013 for the gambling industry, Neil Goulden, or who chaired both the Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) and the Association of British Bookmakers (ABB),identified “a large degree of righteous paternalism” which would see the public mood “swinging absent from smoking, heavy drinking, or gambling,non-contributors and tax avoiders”. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com