This Budget has given the bookies another battering. Keep hammering legitimate bookmakers with tax hikes & you risk driving punters straight into the unregulated black market Taxing gambling won’t stop gambling! Its time to end this poisonous tax raid

I’d argue when they have no real interest in taking break even bets and only wish for people to play casino games and force you to jump through hoops for your funds, they are about as legitimate as black market bookmakers?

Is this clown for real ,where is this gambling black market ?

Come on... bookies? The companies ruining the lives of gambling addicts? Online bookies too, don't even pay out when people win often with claims of programming errors.

Sorry Simon I worked for Ladbrokes for 7 years - big fan of Bookmakers and Horseracing

All good, but a bit more tax on book makers can't be the worse thing. I hope you turned away the gambling addicts :-)

Stop all of the sins, they use sin tax money to replace you.

British people lose £17.5 billion a year by gambling, it's a evil, predatory industry and most of it, is just theft masqueraded as entertainment , you can make that arguement for anything, the government can start selling heroin because it'll risk people going to drug dealers....

She is fkin clueless.

Fantastic that they’re closing down, absolute music to my ears

Absolutely moronic take