Fly that red flag
As a past and moderate Labour voter, the thought of the party in Scotland choosing a Corbynista as their new leader should have filled me with dread. I would by far have preferred the party to return to its centrist roots.
The good news, however, is that, even with a Marxist-run Labour party, it is encouragement for those of us who believe Nationalism is a far, far bigger threat to our country and a stronger Labour, of any political hue, will hasten its end.
The left-right struggle is standard in most countries and can be sorted out at a later date. is to be a new game sometime in 2019. That is rather arrogant in itself as the current franchise runs out in 2019 and if the government listen to public opinion, which is at an all-time low since an extra ten balls were added in 2015 and as a result multiple rollovers are occurring very frequently, then hopefully their licence will not be renewed. The plan is to offer customers an annuity of £10,000 per month rather than a lump sum.
Camelot claim the games will be fairer and there will be more winners.
They might wish to be seen as concerned that fewer players means less money is going to good causes. I suspect their real worry is that they are making less profit.
Yet it beggars belief they have said they are not going to change the numbers in play.
This is what has caused the falling sales in the first place, it is not rocket science, players getting disillusioned and abandoning the game in droves because of the higher cost, extra numbers and horrendous odds of winning.
That is absolutely ridiculous. They have appointed Nigel Railton, a new CEO with experience in American lotteries, as a way to return the National Lottery to growth, at goodness knows what salary, yet he is completely deaf to what customers are saying and nothing will change until they go back to the original game, which involved 49 numbers at a cost of £1.
To him I quote Albert Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”
That’s why customers are deserting the lottery and if Camelot want to retain their licence in 2019 they have to listen to their customers, or else it is going to be to their detriment.