captain_spalding said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

captain_spalding said:

Why would MPs bother with people from the gambling industry?

We regularly have news reports of how the management of Star Casinos just cannot seem to make money out of an enterprise where at least 90% of the people who enter their establishments end up going home with barely a dollar to their name. And quite a lot of those customers are only too keen to repeat the experience as often as they can.

If they can’t turn a profit out of a business mode like that, then they’re obviously useless and inept morons. Surely MPs and Ministers could find better consorts?

Casinos are a pretty small percentage of total gambling turnover.

Possibly, but my point is that, if casino operators are as described in the media, they may well be emblematic of people in the gambling industry.

Politicians shouldn’t associate with klutzes like them.

<t.i.c., if you hadn’t guessed>

You’re not much into sports IIRC. The major market of these gambling organisations is sports gambling. They have for years been trying to get their sports betting embedded into the major sporting events. Not just during ad breaks, but during the match commentary. These efforts have been given the kybosh by the Federal government in bits and pieces over the years. The industry still want the regulations repealed and deregulated, so they have open slather.

It’s a bit like tobacco sponsorship of every major sport up until the 90s when people started to question if this was a good thing. Governments have tried to nip it in the bud, but the industry won’t let up. Horse racing is dying a slow death, the greyhounds are one foot in the grave already, they want to branch out into mainstream human sports.