Chris Snowdon
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1,117 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Aug
Chris Snowdon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And this is what's happened.
We had this with the fixed odds betting terminals.
These campaigners who are exactly the same people that have been campaigning for the last 10 years and are campaigning for gaming duty said, no, no, it's industry scaremongering to say all these bookies are going to close.
We lost a third of the bookies.
within a few years of that one change coming in this is going to have exactly the same effect because it's just going to make it unprofitable it's as simple as that and we had last week there was some house of lords gambling committee and they heard from various people to go oh we should put machine gaming duty up and then the social market foundation which is behind all this stuff funded by derrick webb he's a multi-millionaire who's got his finger in every pie created all these different
front groups clean up gambling campaign to end gambling advertising stop the fobties it's all it's all him and the social market foundation said oh we've done a poll it turns out 43 percent are in favor of increasing machine gaming duty which isn't even that good a result is it considering like this is gambling and you consider how miserable misanthropic and ban happy the british public are they must have been pretty disappointed when they found that only 43 percent
want to want to put a tax on on fruit machines but yeah they acted like this was some great mandate yeah and then um and then this week the social market foundation produced a report saying oh this is going to be great we're going to free money lying on the floor without any negative consequences the betting industry all say it's going to be bad for business but they're lying it's just pathetic we keep falling into this trap again and again and again and burnham apparently doesn't like these um
slot sheds, as some people call them.
So, yeah, I mean, Burnham thinks, just like Rachel Rees thought two years ago, he thinks there's money lying around on the floor and just waiting to be picked up and the Tories just didn't see it.
And it never works out like that, does it?
It's always terrible.
Paul McCartney, windfall tax.
Well, the politicians, they haven't grasped that this is about wiping out the industry.
Obviously, if you wipe out the industry, you don't get any tax.
At the moment, they're already getting 600 million from these machines.
Yeah.
It's not a small amount of money.
Parker, I'm listening to Radio 4, watching Arsenal.
Yes.
Raiding the Guardian.
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