Blackswanwood
Still Learning
You’ve lost me Jacob. Pay rises for who?
Keir Starmer
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I don't suppose they'll let that surface .. .
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
I’ll probably get over the disappointment 🤷
Jacob
New Luddism. Awake and resist!
Your workers?
Presumably the directors and shareholders you refer to, do actually employ people to do the work, whatever it is?
Blackswanwood
Still Learning
No pay rise specifically but all employees participated in a profit share arrangement. The CEO and Board understood the value of employees feeling engaged and invested in the business which increases the chances of having a successful business imo.
Yorkieguy
Established Member
Time and again, rather too many people including Starmer and the MPs who receive this corporate hospitality have said: 'it's within the rules, and have refuted any suggestion that there is a quid pro quo, but that simply isn't the case, and here's why:
There are calls from many quarters to increase the levy on gambling companies. The Institute for Public Policy Research wants the duty on High St Bookmakers doubled from its present 15 % to 30%, and the duty on online gaming to increase from 15% to 50%. This would raise £2.9 bill next year alone, and would bring the UK in line with Europe: France - online sports betting, 55%. Austria 40%. Netherlands are to raise theirs from 30% to 37.5%.
The UK online gambling market vies with America as the largest in the world. The Social Market Foundation has also called for remote casino gaming duties to be doubled from 21% to 42%, which it estimated would being in close to an extra £1 billion a year.
Betting and gaming companies are among the biggest providers of corporate hospitality, doling out tickets to sporting entertainment and cultural events so beloved by politicians, left right and centre. They are among the most generous donors, pouring £1.08 million into Labour's coffers in the last few years, giving £20,000 to fund Rachel Reeves office when in opposition.
Maybe that's why gambling companies don't seem unduly concerned about rumours that Reeves might increase their taxes in the impending budget to help fill the so called £22Bn 'black hole'? They know that both Tory and Labour governments have shied away from taking on the industry. By comparison, pensioners on £13k a year no longer entitled to WFA, and impecunious working class families who make sacrifices to send their children with special needs to private schools, are easy meat.
Labour have encourage gambling since Blair liberalised gaming laws in 2005. High Streets - particularly in poor areas, are full of betting shops with fixed odds betting terminals. Jonathan Reynolds accepted football tickets to the Euro Championship from 'Entain' - the company behind Ladbrokes and Sportingbet. Louse Haigh, transport secretary enjoyed tickets from betting companies, and Starmer accepted £25,00 from Peter Coates, head of the £25 billion company Bet365. Coates daughter Denise - now the richest woman in Britain, who lives in a £90 million home (although in fairness, she does pay all her taxes, which she can well afford to).
Influential Labour Peer Lord Mendelson, chairs Evoke - the company behind William Hill and '888', Lord Watson - the party's former deputy leader, is a paid advisor to the largest listed betting company in the world - 'Flutter'. These companies use technological advances to hook vulnerable punters who have addictive personalities or are desperate for cash.
The NHS has seen a rise of 42% in demand for it's gambling clinics, and Public Health England estimates that there are around 400 suicides per year in England alone. According to the Gambling Commission, a million adults and 55,000 children have an out of control gambling addiction, heavily skewed to economically deprived areas.
So before anyone tries to trivialise the acceptance by the PM and his top team of corporate hospitality from such sources and claim that these firms get nothing back from their largesse, if taxes on Betting and Gaming companies aren't increased in the budget, you'll know why. 'He who pays the piper calls the tune'.
sploo
Somewhat extinguished member
I've had offers of (software) work in the gambling industry. Good money. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I may be a miserable misanthrope at the best of times, but preying on the vulnerable just doesn't do it for me.
Jacob
New Luddism. Awake and resist!
So Starmer will be selling out to the powers that be? No surprises there - he made it absolutely clear from the start by purging all those lefties, breaking all his pledges, promising no tax rises.
He's working for the other side, just like Bliar.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/16/how-britain-got-the-gambling-bug
And who is next in the payrise queue, it may not surprise anyone but it is the London underground next who will be going on strike to secure a nice deal like the other train drivers, 22% is great if you can get it but who will be paying apart from the pensioners.
John Brown
Freeloading Social media influenza
I used to do some software work in the amusement industry. I confess to writing code for fruit machines of the pub variety, which were low stake, high percentage payout devices, but I pulled out when my client moved into the betting shop end of the market. I wouldn't touch any of it these days.
