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Betting Sites Get 700,000 Hits a Year from UK Parliament
October 7, 2013
Poker Fuse – No wonder the UK has a more liberal gambling regime than most EU countries: gambling websites are accessed 700,000 times a year from within the Houses of Parliament. The UK Daily Mail newspaper reports on a Freedom of Information (FoI) request which revealed the figures. In a single month, UK site Bet365 was accessed 16,986 times—so not just gambling, but patriotic gambling, and perhaps even some favoritism being paid to personal constituencies. Not all the gambling site visits were made by Members of Parliament (MP); the figures only show gross figures for all employees working in the…