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Labour Gambling Prohibitionists Try to Tax Working Men’s Clubs
Nanny state Labour-linked think tank the Social Market Foundation and puritanical Labour MPs are back on the warpath against gambling. This time they’re going for – working men’s clubs SMF is announcing today that it wants Machine Games Duty doubled from 20 to 40 on so-called Category B machines. These machines are found in casinos,
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