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Threat to bingo halls
• I WOULD like to applaud Dolores Murray (Why pick on bingo? July 3). Thousands of Islington residents go to bingo every week.
Several years ago our beloved Mecca bingo hall in Essex Road closed (I remember going there as a girl to Saturday morning pictures). But Mecca kept to its word and laid on coaches to take us to Wood Green or Camden halls. If the tax was to be raised to 22 per cent then these bingo halls would probably have to close too.
There is such a wide range of people who go to bingo. You are able to forget about “the woes of life” for a couple of hours and have a laugh with your friends and neighbours.
Gordon Brown thought he was going to raise this tax for bingo from 15 per cent to 22 per cent through the back door and no one would notice
Well, we did, and we are going to march with our feet if we have to. So please support people like Dolores Murray, who is passionate about the government keeping the tax at 15 per cent.
The bookies, football pools and online bingo are all 15 per cent so why raise bingo halls to 22 per cent?
Is it because the government thought they were an easy touch? Think again, Gordon.
BARBARA COVENTRY
Popham estate, N1
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