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[Psamathe]

Gambling does not cause any ‘social ills’, lobbyist tells incredulous MPs
The boss of the UK’s main betting and gaming lobby group has told MPs that there is no “social ill with gambling” as she warned against imposing higher taxes on the sector in the November budget.

Grainne Hurst, the chief executive of the Betting and Gaming Council, repeatedly made the statement to parliament’s Treasury select committee on Tuesday

Are things like this the result of society and politician changes over the last few years where truth has become irrelevant and they spout any twaddle that suits their purpose. And the lies seem to come so fast and so often that fact checking has become swamped and thus ineffective.

Claiming Black is White seems to have become the norm and is readily accepted and readily believed.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oops. Could happen to anyone. Just happens to be a Murdoch paper.

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Haha. Journalism at its finest.

 

[Beebo]

It's where idealism and the real world collide. It's a pity that the world as it is has to take precedence, but it's hard to take people seriously who need to deny the reality in order to argue their position, without any recognition of the consequences.

I heard an interview with Steve Coogan where he called this sort of thing out as being the “intellectual soft left”.

They are so sanctimonious that their political position is made to look extreme foolish in the face of real world politics.