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Online Casino Advertising Still Banned in UK

The new Prime Minister in the UK, Gordon Brown has a distinctly different approach to online casino and land-based gambling than previous Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet. Some in the online casinos industry though are disappointed because previously approved legislation is now being overturned by the new PM and government cabinet. The new attitude will directly affect online casinos that had plans to begin advertising on radio and television in the country, as well as possible changes to the planned supercasino in Manchester.

Former Prime Minister Blair had passed legislation that would lift the current advertising ban and would subsequently bring in even more revenue for the online casinos, and for the government. But the previous justification for the gambling advertisement restrictions are still valid – advertisements that target problem gamblers and underage UK citizens can cause huge problems and cost the government even more down the road in addiction treatment programs.

And the online casino gambling industry is not the only are in store for some changes. Prime Minister Brown announced during “PM Question Time” that he is reconsidering the previous plans for the Manchester supercasino that would bring a more Las Vegas style approach to gambling in the UK.

The new Culture Secretary, James Purnell, on the Cabinet and the Prime Minister will be looking into both issues regarding the online casinos advertising issue and the supercasinos. Purnell notes that an increase in problem gambling “was one of the concerns people have mentioned and one of the things that, as a new minister in this area, I will be going through methodically to see if the concerns are legitimate.”