I take no pleasure in seeing my prediction of bingo’s demise in this area coming true. The closure of Orion Bingo in Cleveleys was something I warned about in my first edition of Coastline magazine: “For many people, a night out at the bingo is something they really enjoy. But their days look to be numbered thanks to Labour. Gordon Brown has been busy squeezing bingo halls out of existence by double taxing them – for gross profits and VAT purposes. It is the only form of gambling which has this. The 2005 Gambling Act placed even more burdens on bingo halls. In the past three years, 80 bingo clubs have had to shut their doors. And part of the local sense of community has disappeared with them. We should be building up our communities, not letting them slowly die like Labour does”.
Sadly, we now have one more to add to the eighty-plus which have closed.
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