Camelot lose lottery license

[The Samaritan]

What do you expect from Boris?? In fairness to Boris and I've always said this, almost every politician is in it for itself and if they tell you differently, run a million miles.

 

[JohnD]

But Camelot appear to have lost the next licence to operate the lottery, and I hear a Czech company have made a successful bid.

They very wisely bought a Tory peer to join the Board.

 

[albaPhenom]

I have seen no news of a takeover.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...t-lose-National-Lottery-licence-30-years.html

"But after more than 20 years of running the lottery, Camelot has lost out to Czech lottery operator Allwyn."

??

 

[JohnD]

So not a takeover.

 

[The Samaritan]

What do you expect from Boris?? In fairness to Boris and I've always said this, almost every politician is in it for itself and if they tell you differently, run a million miles.

But Camelot appear to have lost the next licence to operate the lottery, and I hear a Czech company have made a successful bid.

They very wisely bought a Tory peer to join the Board.

Why should he work for free??

 

[albaPhenom]

So not a takeover.

No, the lottery has been taken over, not a Takeover of Camelot.

You seem very argumentative here when I've been clear from the start that I haven't looked into the inner workings of the National Lottery.

 

[JohnD]

Yes, I'm very argumentative and I only know about Camelot.

So Camelot isn't even a British company, only in Britain would we outsource a relatively simple business which requires no reliance on foreign expertise or goods, which takes massive profits from the British people to a foreign company, let alone one with Russian links... how is this even allowable?

 

[Doug99]

Camelot messed up by increasing the price of a lottery ticket. They didn't seem to grasp that punters would rather pay for 5 x £1 tickets for the chance to win a £5m prize, rather than pay 2 x £2.50 tickets to win £12m.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

Camelot messed up by increasing the price of a lottery ticket. They didn't seem to grasp that punters would rather pay for 5 x £1 tickets for the chance to win a £5m prize, rather than pay 2 x £2.50 tickets to win £12m.

Already some media rumours that ticket prices might come down, although I'll believe it when I see it. Standard Lotto ticket should be £1, Euros no more than £2.