Earlier this year this blog exclusively drew attention to the wining and dining of the body that supposedly oversees Britain's gambling "industry" by the very people they are supposed to regulate.I asked for an updated version of the hospitality register and immediately met a wall of silence from this ever so secretive organisation (their meetings are still closed to the public).
Suddenly this morning, more than seven months late their hospitality register appears on their website. I must say that this year it look a little thinner with a few less provocative examples of "hospitality". But on another day I will do a more detailed analysis.
So what has provoked this sudden outburst of openness and accountability? Could it be because Philip Davies the MP for Shipley has put down a parliamentary question on this self same subject? An FOI request from a Methodist Preacher is treated with contempt. A parliamentary question suddenly creates action this very day!
Incidentally when I published the daily pay of the Commissioners, one expressed her concern to me that that she was listed as earning £666 per day and that one of the published comments lightheartedly referred to the significance of 666. Well actually by an amazing coincidence the listed telephone number for the Gambling Commission ends in 666!
The party goes on and on.......
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David,
You will be pleased to hear that your three Labour councillors will be voting again on Tuesday to renew the Council's Gambling Policy. I think we are still the only council in the country with a policy which specifically forbids the opening of any casinos in the borough - a policy initiated by the Abbey Ward Councillors and our Direcor of Public Health, John Middleton.
I think we should make more of this in the Sandwell Herald. It is a policy to be proud of and reflects well on our councillors.
Even its coincident or not, the significance of the number 666 seems like scary for me. First her daily pay, second the number of that gambling commissioner is also ends in 666. What else did that number connection to her with regards to gambling and casino, very interesting though its so scary.
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