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A Change of Heart

Those UK gamblers with their hearts set on more land-based gambling in the country
(to counter the huge spread of online casinos gambling) may be in store for disappointment – then again maybe not. It’s rather interesting how rapidly the UK’s entire attitude and legislation shifted after the country’s elections earlier this year. Not only did the online casino and land-based gambling industry lose a strong advocate in former Prime Minister Tony Blair, but Gordon Brown appears to have a markedly different approach to addressing gambling in the country.

One of Brown’s first actions once in office was to immediately stop any further development on the Manchester supercasino. When Brown nixed the supercasino, plans for smaller land-based casinos were also put on hold. And now the Culture Secretary, James Purnell, announced that authorities in the previously 16 planned locations for the land-based casinos have a chance to speak their peace if they still want to proceed with a land-based casino.

For the most part though, it looks as though the online casino industry is the only part of the gambling community that authorities are willing to accept. Many of the local authorities in these planned locations also changed over in the May elections – and consensus seems to be that most areas do not want to deal with the land-based gambling industry in their town. For some authorities, though, the responses against online casino and land-based gambling come from a purely ideological stand-point rather than based off of possible local economic benefits.