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Labour has a tax problem coming up to the next election and it's nothing to do with death taxes, it's to do with fun taxes. Everyone has something they do for a bit of fun. For some it's supporting their football team, for others it's…
Last week's announcement that local authorities will be given new powers to stop the spread of betting shops is a victory for Labour councillors up and down the country, who have been campaigning for this for years. Across the UK, from…
The Guardian reported this week that the Government is to announce a ‘crackdown’ on Fixed odds Betting Terminals. As with so many issues, the Government has been slow to act. At the time of Cameron’s knee-jerk call for an in-house DCMS…
Questions over the clients of Tory election-guru and lobbyist Lynton Crosby have been circulating for months now, with questions raised over his clients in - to name but a few - tobacco, fracking, healthcare. And now Cameron's other major…
Over the last two years the government has persistently refused to acknowledge that local councils in many areas are losing the battle against betting shops clustering in their high streets leading to a proliferation of high stakes Fixed…
When Philip Davies MP submitted a complaint against one of my campaign’s adverts, something didn’t seem quite right. I work for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, and we recently started the Stop the FOBTs campaign to argue the case for a…
Since the financial crisis, the perfect storm of recession and banks restricting access to credit has led to the rise of payday lenders. Our high streets are slowly deteriorating from the vibrant, diverse places they once were into an abyss…
Today one in seven of Britain’s shops lie empty. In some places it is as many as one in three. At the same time we are seeing a decline in the variety of businesses that make up our high streets; there are now more than twice as many…
By Carl Packman and Matt Zarb-Cousin Financial divisions in the UK are growing while the economy of Britain is in dire straits - and the Tory-led Coalition government seem increasingly unable to do anything about it. Nowhere is this…
This evening, dozens of Movement for Change activists will host a ‘Night of Action’ in Wembley to call for an end to legal loansharking. We’ll be joined by Arthur Breen, whose foster daughter (whom he refers to as “G” to protect her…
Within a matter of years, Gambling has infiltrated British mainstream culture. The blacked out windows of the 90’s bookmakers have been replaced by bright, air conditioned miniature casinos endorsed by sports pundits and celebrities, whose…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk Boris Johnson has been having a time to forget lately (cominging disappearing at crucial moments, and claiming that London transport is operating normally when it's anything but) and he's walked into…
