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What country allows gambling firms to earn billions, but ignores suffering caused by gambling addiction


What kind of country provides a pay packet of £217 million to its highest paid woman - for running a gambling firm? What kind of country produces five billionaires and 15 multimillionaires from the proceeds of gambling - and increased their wealth last year by nearly 20% to £19 billion? - and then turns a blind eye to the two million people in the UK who are either problem gamblers or at risk of gambling addiction - including young people driven to suicide?

Lord Alton reports from today's debate on Online Gambling in the House of Lords.

To read on see: https://davidalton.net/2017/11/24/what-kind-of-country-provides-a-pay-packet-of-217-million-to-its-hghest-paid-woman-for-running-a-gambling-firm-what-kind-of-country-produces-five-billionaires-and-15-multimillionaires-from-the-proc/

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