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I remember those attacks and the careful way we tried to counter them. However this idealistic concept of funding interesting and valuable projects from new money has always been a sham.

We've been hit in succession from different administrations by, firstly: trendy arty projects that the average person would rather remove his eyeballs with spoons than watch - only to be replaced by trendy politically correct lefty nonsense that the same person would then fill their still-bleeding eyesockets with shards of broken glass and fireants than put up with. It irks me that St Paul's Cathedral is not "accessible enough to minorities" and this icon of our country is therefore denied funds for its restoration.

Now this government is funding basic and vital public projects which should always have come from direct taxation.

However, Labour was being disingenuous when they called it a tax on the poor. It's a tax on the desperate, and a tax on the stupid. If you want to win £1 million for £1, play a single number on a roulette wheel and win. Put all the winnings on another single number and win again. Do it again. And again. You'll have just over £1 million. The odds of doing this are around 1 in 2 million.

That's better odds than the Lootery (sic).

A tax on the stupid? I feel bad now for working in a shop that sells the Lottery!

Another point is, why are Camalot still running the Lottery? They take a profit - whereas other organisations have said they'll run it non-profit.

It shouldn't matter whether the company that runs the Lottery makes a profit, as long as that company is better
able than others to maximise returns for the good causes.

Camelot has done a good job.

"It shouldn't matter whether the company that runs the Lottery makes a profit, as long as that company is better
able than others to maximise returns for the good causes.

Camelot has done a good job."

Seeing as Camelot have been the only company to have a go, then we have nothing to compare them with. I expect that a non-profit organisation could do just as good a job, and not take a profit - leaving more money for projects.

Whatever the benefits of Camelot or the Lottery as an idea John Major is surely right that Brown is looting it for his own ends.
I would very much hope that an incoming Conservative government would reform that that money raised from the Lottery can be spent.

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