Solihull Slot Machines Cause Concern

With the new slot machine casino licenses having been issued, much of Britain is discussing who got what. Solihull was fortunate enough to have received one of the slot machine casino licenses, as was Wolverhampton.

Solihull will be building a casino with 150 slot machines and top prizes of £4,000. Wolverhampton will have a smaller casino with 80 slot machines. However, not everyone is happy about the licensing.

Many in the West Midlands are not happy about the slot machines coming in, and the MPs in both areas opposed the licenses saying that they would only end up damaging the families. Lorely Burt said that only “desperate and vulnerable people” would patronize the slot machine casino.

She said that a year ago the Casino Advisory Panel rejected their ideas of putting a larger slot machine casino at the NEC, and now that they are approving one there it won’t have the things they needed at the first. Burt says that they will be bringing in the slot machines on a smaller scale, which means they will have the problems associated with gambling addiction, but not the funds necessary to do something about it.


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