Lanark bingo boss not impressed with budget ‘con’

The man who famously fought to keep the club going through financially hard times said that, on his calculations, the much-trumped cut in the Bingo Duty announced by George Orbourne would save his business an absolute maximum of £16 a month.

“It’s a con,” Lanark’s Vogue Bingo Club Martin Carroll said. “This is going to do nothing to help the survival of small independent bingo clubs.

“It looks to me to be a change that will mostly benefit the Big Boys of the industry. Not places like the Vogue in Lanark.”

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