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Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:05 pm**

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news ... icle/85896

Sounds ominous...

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:25 pm**

worry ye not ,the government's days are numbered and the conservatives have already pledged to help this struggling industry and this move would be very detrimental to that.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:36 pm**

I suppose it's now a trade-off between no tax and then being limited to 'pure' skill games. Or, being taxed and seeing the likes of poker, 6-shooter etc. making a ressurgence.

Oh, and what are 'mach-ines'?

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:03 pm**

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:03 pm**

I remember the last time this happened in 1993/4. Wiped me out for a while until Monopoly came along and saved the day. Ironic that Monopoly is in the frame now.

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:49 pm**

Really bad news if true.

One non sequitur though surely - why would getting rid of quiz machines automatically turn those who play them onto gambling on fruit machines instead? In virtually every pub with a quiz machine there are up to 5 fruit machines already there if you want to play them. It seems to me more likely that those people who enjoy the quizzers would find this one more reason to stop going to pubs as much (or at all), in the same way that removing the pool table or dart board would.

P.S. Matt V - is your avatar a picture of Gillian Anderson looking extremely foxy (pun intended on at least two levels

)?

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:15 pm**

Agreed on the bad news front. Oh well, wait and ye shall see!

Re: Gillian, it is indeed! The one female who my partner 'allows' me to wallow in, purely because I told her that they look a bit similar (which they do).

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:56 pm**

Matt Vinyl wrote:The one female who my partner 'allows' me to wallow in ...

We'll keep quiet about the other 267 then

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:35 pm**

Never mind them, I was just wondering what 'wallowing' actually entails?

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:00 pm**

ops:

Posted: **Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:07 pm**

JG wrote:Never mind them, I was just wondering what 'wallowing' actually entails?

LOL, so was I,
but what ever it means I think I would!

On the OP subject,
In light of the HMRC & GC 'statement' it seems like that publication 'might' have got the wrong end of the stick and don't know there arse from there elbow.

BUT after all it was only a few years ago when a government de-licensed them wasn't it? - regardless of there status of real 'skill'

Now with all this 'depiction of a game of chance' crap it looks like another back door tax to me, and there will only be one winner - the tax man

the writings on the wall if you ask me.

Posted: **Thu Feb 11, 2010 7:36 am**

Democracy is 10 men in a boat and 9 of them tell you to row!

Posted: **Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:36 am**

'another back door tax to me'

Brighton is going to suffer I a lot of pain,I fear with its enforcement.

Posted: **Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:58 am**

mr lugsy wrote:worry ye not ,the government's days are numbered and the conservatives have already pledged to help this struggling industry and this move would be very detrimental to that.

Think you are living in a Cameron wonderland mate.
Anyway the HMRC will do there own thing regardless to which government is in power.

Posted: **Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:49 am**

yes ,all hail cameron.

i've been a fan ever since the first terminator film.

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