Ban bookmakers FOBT Machines (fixed odds betting terminals)

Ban them blood sucking machines they horrible and are destroying peoples lives the government is an absolute joke they won't ban them coz they makes so much in tax from these machines it's so sad how devastating them machines are.

These are a parasite leeching money from people who cannot afford to loose it.

THESE FOBT'S DESTROY PEOPLES LIVES AND THOSE AROUND THEM

Its a question of social responsibility. Seven bookies on one high street is now ordinary. These machines attract the vulnerable and the desperate. Labour made an error by permitting these in the first place, they have ended up harming the majority of their own supporters, the working class. Time to put it right and clean up the filthy appearance of our high streets that are now dominated by bookmakers and pay day lenders. What a bright future we have in store for today's youth. Sad, sad situation.

These machines are evil

Whilst the government continues to tax these machines will continue to blight society. what next legal crack on every corner ? what a country !!!!!!!

Please ban these, my life is slowly being controlled by these machines!

PLEASE BAN THESE FOR GOOD THEY HAVE WRECKED MY LIFE AND WILL WRECK MANY MORE...

ban them they are the worst thing to ever hit the high streets i cant even go into a bookmakers to put on the lottery just incase i get the urge to waste more money on these dam things.

i cant even leave my house with my cash card let alone more than £10 in my pocket as i get to much of an erge to enter a book makers and play these need to be banned big time they are ruining lives.

Should be banned they are extremely addictive, I know of someone actually committing suicide after losing everything due to these !,

The Bookies with their Fobt machines end up with all your money .A big con ! Never heard of anyone winning £30000 lets say ,but their taking many more times what the lotto takes .Playing the fobt machines is as addictive as can be.Hide your debit card or credit card or the fobt machines will swallow everything you have , and more . That`s what they`re designed to do ! The government is meant to be working for us. No help there !! D`ont try, just do it `keep out of the Bookies` Atb Mike

These machines should be banned from the High Street and confined to casinos where you have to prove age by membership and money laundering can be monitored.Betfred are to base wages on fobt income thereby turning their staff into pushers for this drug.

Really, these things wrecked my well being. I used to gamble but never as compulsive as I have done on these. In all I've lost around £30,000. Please, if they are illegal, I'm sure no one will refund my money. Just ban them!

I used to enjoy a bet on horses, but I dare not enter a bookmakers anymore because the of dreaded fobt roulette which have ruined my life. Nothing would please me more than to see these machines wiped off the face of the earth. They are a disease.

Theses machines are like a legalised form of theft. There is no fairness. the bookies are the only winners. This government needs to act now.

I lost £1000 from a lodger who could not pay his rent due to this kind of betting. I presume betting shops have a duty to stop problem gambling but this obviously did not happen in the case of my lodger.

When a person drinks too much at a bar, the bar tender usually refuses to serve them more drink. When a punter gambles too much in a betting shop, the bookies are more than happy to serve you... Untill you run out of money. These rigged machines rely on shame to operate. Most people who play them including my self will only talk about how much they won, but they will never admit how much they lost because they feel embaressed and ashamed, meaning new punters get the wong information. They banned Heroin and Cocaine in the 1920's with no problems when the population were getting far too addicted, why won't they ban these addictive clearly rigged machines? Because the politicians get bribed by the corporate bookies to keep the laws relaxed.

This does destroy families, banning this can help more than some people know!!

These machines are in no way a fair bet to the punter.