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Gambling regulation should be not be designed to protect the gambling sector operators, the politicians that approved it, or the regulators that should enforce it. It should be designed and interpreted to protect the consumers – the gamblers. The UK 2005 Gambling Act has many flaws but the most significant flaws relate to FOBTs.
“FOBTs” (fixed odds betting terminals), also known as B2 machines – the gaming machines you find offering roulette in high street betting shops – were introduced when the betting shop sector was unregulated and have since multiplied to now be dubbed the “crack cocaine of gambling”. We want them stopped.
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Watch Derek Webb on Sunday Politics South show.
Derek joined presenter Peter Henley to express the Campaign's recommendations around FOBTs and how local people can take action in their area. Explaining that the current Minister for Sport at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Hugh Robertson has the power to make the changes needed to the FOBT regulation now, but is lacking the evidence he needs.