The European Commission want online gambling companies to use warnings like those displayed on cigarettes. Our star columnist, Nick Gunn isn’t impressed.
It seems the bureaucrats at the European Parliament are now focusing their energy on a new vice. Reader, is it my imagination or do they ever stop pontificating from atop their pedestals? It would seem that a day doesn’t go by nowadays when they are not lecturing sovereign states about something – whether cigarette packaging, drinking, or even car seatbelts! Many a-sleepless night have I spent wondering, as I am sure many of you do too, if these people at the EU stopped being so utterly pious – would they cease breathing? A serious question, no doubt. The trouble is reader, is that there is no way of finding out, unfortunately. This in itself, leads to more sleeplessness. Life is cruel, eh?
Anyhow, pause the hypothetical scientific experiments for just a second and stay with me and I will tell you all about my gripe with the EU this week. The bullying institution is now interfering with the gambling industry. Their gripe is, unsurprisingly, stuffy, pointless, and insulting.
Indeed, as Two Little Fleas reported, the European Commission are going to be urging us to force gambling adverts to display warnings in a similar style to those warnings displayed on cigarette packets. A tad insulting, surely? Why should someone who enjoys the odd flutter be confronted which such barbaric warnings. Human beings are not stupid creatures, people are rational, and they have responsibility for their own actions – it is therefore not the business of anybody, especially not the EU, to lecture and pontificate about one’s vices. They can bog-off.
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