Islington Tribune
Publications by New Journal Enterprises
spacer
  Home Archive Competition Jobs Tickets Accommodation Dating Contact us
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
spacer
Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 10 July 2009
 
Why pick on bingo?

• ON the hottest day of the year, we Zimmers spent hours standing in the blazing sun at Westminster. Why? To tell the government to leave our bingo alone.
It is putting up the tax on bingo to 22 per cent when all other gambling is taxed at 15 per cent. I don’t understand what they’ve got against bingo. The bookies and football pools are taxed at 15 per cent, so why should bingo pay more?
Two years ago Mecca bingo in Essex Road closed. We have lost a lot of elderly people since that hall closed. A lot of people who loved their game of bingo have not been out to do hardly anything since. It was the government’s fault then, what with the taxation and the smoking ban, and now they’re doing it again.
Now a lot of us go to bingo in Camden. It’s one of the last remaining pleasures for a lot of people. We can meet up and have a laugh in a safe place. For many of us it’s a reason to get out of the house. If the club closes we’ll have nowhere else to go.
This government has done so many terrible things but if I could meet Gordon Brown now I’d tell him exactly what I think about the way he’s hurting elderly people who love a little game of bingo. It’s about time this government stopped taking from the public and started giving.
DOLORES MURRAY
Basire Street, N1

Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Islington Tribune, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@islingtontribune.co.uk. Deadline for letters is midday Wednesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld . Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

Comment on this article.
(You must supply your full name and email address for your comment to be published)

Name:

Email:

Comment:


 

 
 
 
spacer














spacer


Theatre Music
Arts & Events Attractions
spacer
 
 


  up