🗣️ "These are ordinary, hard working people whose jobs will be lost" Ed Chamberlin catches up with Simon Clare from Entain UK to speak about potential gambling tax hikes and the impact on racing's future. #TheOpeningShow

@chamberlinsport Cry me a fucking river. Bookmakers have taken the piss for years with their FOBT machines, on top of other atrocious behaviour. Why should anyone have sympathy now? You are the reason people are losing their jobs, nobody else.

@chamberlinsport The pathetic Simon Clare bleating as usual. Perhaps you shouldn’t have closed your supposed valuable customer accounts for no good reason. Wrap what you sow.

@chamberlinsport @SiClare Very Diplomatic given the Labour government who despises working class activities and betting

@chamberlinsport High Street bookies should be left to die. They have been ripping off mainly seniors, who cant operate smart phones, for the past decade or so. The odds differential between online and bricks and mortar shops is nothing short of scandalous. They deserve to close.

@chamberlinsport You started shrink racing to a little side show in your shops many years before any of this, and you know it.

@chamberlinsport It's a shame you're old boss was so happy to bring in the FOBTs then isn't it Simon? The easy money of software generated betting events made him and others a fortune and has cost racing in the long run. Which is why shops are empty but for button pressing fools on FOBTs now.

@chamberlinsport Didnt ask him why loads of people are max bet. £1.77

@chamberlinsport Worried about where their next oysters and champagne are coming from

@chamberlinsport Amazing how this bloke is given air time. There historical practices are catching up with them. Very little sympathy when you can't even get a serious bet on with Entain and other bookies

@chamberlinsport Itv racing supporting bookies who would have thought it!🙄 The 4 or 5 betting shops in every town in the Uk have been largely empty for many many years now and it was only a matter of time before they got closed anyway,who wants to see 4 or 5 empty shops??!!

@chamberlinsport Despicable bloke

@chamberlinsport And yet the profits will still remain. Bookmakers have had it easy with FOBTs etc. Does this mean we won’t be subject to all the bookies adverts on ITV or YouTube? Of course not, they’ll still make their profits 🙄

@RebeccaEMenzies @chamberlinsport The reality is that this has been expected for many years and racing has done what it does best. Not plan for it, hope it goes away and then panic at the last minute when it happens. Ffs look at other racing authorities around the world and mimic. It ain’t difficult.

@chamberlinsport Hard to listen to Simon Clare horrible little rat

@chamberlinsport The bookies really cared when they told the older generation of workers to sign new contracts halving their pay or leave. Now you have workers who will find employment in other as unskilled areas as they are now.

@chamberlinsport Bookies dont want racing they make more from football, animation races, and machines. Racing needs its own tote, website,app and machine betting to be installed in either shops and pubs. Work with smaller Bookies. Racing gets 10% of Bookies profits time for 100% profits.

@chamberlinsport Nobody uses betting shops it’s not rocket science… FOBTs machines are what brings people in 🤷‍♂️.. racing needs to get on the front foot .

@chamberlinsport Ask him why Ladbrokes evicted Wolverhampton speedway from their stadium at Monmore Green which was giving them a decent regular income between March and October

@chamberlinsport Couple of multi millionaires making out they care! 😳

@chamberlinsport Move on nothing to see here people losing there jobs everywhere Moore intrested in local community not racing clueless

@chamberlinsport 300 jobs in customer care u need customers for that role

@chamberlinsport Won’t someone please think of the bookies 😢

@chamberlinsport The bookies do not care about ordinary hard working people.

@chamberlinsport Customer care job losses? Does customer care actually exist in that company? 🤡🤡 You either talk to a bot or someone offshore who doesn’t understand betting/what you’re explaining

@chamberlinsport Because you don't want to lose your cherry off your cake....twat !

@chamberlinsport Blinkered There are more deserving policies

@chamberlinsport Needs to be 100% of revenue!! And they should be stopped from closing your accounts just because u backed a greyhound at 10/3 that returned 2/1! Was a losing account too to the tune of £1500 in this calendar year!

@chamberlinsport Betting shops are largely automated. There are too many on the high streets. The demise of the betting shop can be linked directly with the death of pub culture.

@chamberlinsport They could easily take a cut in profits, Bet Fred got 25 million in dividends last year. That would pay a fair few minimum wage hours if they cared so much

@chamberlinsport Coral should start by sacking him, talking out his pocket

@chamberlinsport Good of him to slag off his employees as uneducated, no qualifications. Excellent of Chamberlin to stand up for them as well 🙄

@chamberlinsport Itv Racing would please ask him why all Corals Betting shops are FILTHY SO DIRTY can be described as a HEALTH HAZARD to the public. Also they don't show replays of close photo finish races of Greyhound/Horses most of their staff luck experience of communication.

@chamberlinsport It’s not the horse and football betters that’s the problem. It’s the fixed odds machines

@chamberlinsport It really makes no sense people moaning how awful machines are, not sure they have invented one yet that drags someone off the street and makes them play, people who love betting shops lose out because the ones with addictions can’t take responsibility