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BRITISH
POLITICAL AND HORSERACING GOVERNMENT
TAKING A
CLOSER LOOK AT HOW GOVERNMENT ARE SPENDING TAX PAYERS MONEY:
Should the long
outdated dark age political and horseracing bloodhorse illiterate government remain in practice?
TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT ENERGY BILLS:
Are you confused by your energy bills?
Why do the energy bills waist so much
paper and time?
Do the British people realise how they are being ripped off financially right across the board by government?
Select A FixTHE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY TRACK BUILD
Surely the British people need to
have their say about government spending money as this.
Similar to the Bank scandal. The Legal scandal.
Especially due to the present severe
poverty burdened upon so many British people by government.
British financial facts, severe poverty found
throughout this country
All political parties are said to be
in agreement in spending all this money.
But what about all the British people?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/231434.stm Cached
... the new head of
the UK
railway watchdog, proposed a cap on Railtrack's returns, ... given the
effective Government guarantee for much of Railtrack's income, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack Cached
... whose strategy was
to encourage Railtrack to make ... the government's position had been that the
new ... Railtrack plc. Originally the Government ...
British political and horseracing government
poverty segregation as found on Titanic., as shown in both World War horrors, throughout and on to date 2014,
What do the British people have to
say about building a new railway track at this time? Surely before any government go ahead takes
place there should be a British People Vote for or against. Until that ‘People Vote’ government
need to put their railway project on hold.
Elect
In remembrance of Julian
Wilson
THE PASSIONATE THOUGHTS OF
JULIAN WILSON
The Life and Times of Julian
Wilson
Published in the Racing Post Sacred Sunday April 27th 2014. Page 12
"SPORTS
writer Peter Wilson was, famously, the Daily Mirror’s “man they can’t gag” ,
and there is no doubt some involved in the administration of racing will have
wished at times that ‘they’ had been a bit more successful with son Julian.
“Julian Wilson, who died this week
aged 73, will be best remembered as the face of BBC racing, but he was a
successful owner, shrewd punter and dedicated observer of the sport he loved.
“He offered his views without fear or
favour, and the Racing Post often provided the medium - in
race reports, in letters and, for a time, in his Mr Angry column (the clue was
in the name)
“We
have trawled our archives to produce a selection of Wilson’s views – always perceptive, never
less than passionate – on various issues integral to the sport.
“Whether
you agree with them or not, you simply couldn’t ignore them. And some of those
in the firing line may want to reach for the flak jacket one last time …
“Too much racing hurting staff
October
10, 2000
"The
staff situation is virtually at crisis level at all except the top half-dozen
stables. Lads are being asked to work 29 days out of 31 and they are making
mistakes and not doing their jobs properly. A lot of them are drifting out of
racing because they can’t cope.
“Trying to keep on top of the
form
October 10, 2000
“With
non-stop racing, it is absolutely impossible to keep on top of the form, nobody
could do it … I specialise in handicapping horses rated 75 and above - I don’t bother with the rest – but even so
it still takes me a whole day every week.
“Exchanges not good for racing
or betting markets
November 27, 2003
“Exchanges
have been more damaging to horseracing than any other concept in my racing
lifetime. They have caused damage to owners and trainers; to professional and
semi professional punters; to bookmakers; to the funding of racing; and, worst
of all to the image of the sport … the truth is that betting exchanges are a
charter for cheats; and this at a time when racing claims to be straighter than
ever … in a nutshell, small players on Betfair are ruining the market for those
entitled to a decent bet.
“2004 Christmas wishlist
December 23, 2004
“To
the RCA (or BHB). Please put a block on building all-weather tracks on Grade 1
racecourses. The idea of staging the interminable dull sand racing at Newmarket, Newbury and
Kempton (in place of jumping) is sacrilegious to the tradition of British
racing. It is to escape the squalor and tedium of dirt racing that American
owners come to race in Britain.
“The direction of Channel 4
Racing June 21, 2005
“Except
for big-race-days, its Saturday broadcasts have fallen into a pattern of
showing ‘bookmakers’ handicaps’ – there were no fewer than eight last Saturday –
with the emphasis on the Scoop6 … its visual focus is increasingly on the ‘lads’ lager culture, extending to
drinking in the betting ring. The message now reads; ‘Come Drinking’, rather than ‘Come Racing’ .
“Saturday racing in decline
July 19, 2005
“Week
after week Saturday’s race results make horrific reading for punters. Once,
Saturday was the most popular and successful day for most horse players.
Nowadays, Mr Angry, for one rarely bets on a Saturday. Last Saturday, all six
favourites were beaten at Newbury, and six out of seven beaten at Newmarket.
“On the Gambling Commission
July 7, 2005
“Now
we are to become slaves once and for all on the betting and gambling
industries, following the creation of the Gambling Commission.
“Too many meetings in the 2006
fixture list. August 2, 2005
“The
treadmill is driven ever faster, and trainers and jockeys face heightening
levels of burn – out. It is disheartening to see jockey’s who were superb
earlier in the season now making regular mistakes, and existing like zombies …
stress levels have never been higher, and several trainers, including Henry
Cecil, James Fanshawe and Clive Brittain, have, at various times, become
teetotal. Even the high-living Barry
Hills has become a ‘selective
drinker’ .
“Racing driven by gambling
September 27, 2005
“Racing
now is driven entirely by gambling.
“ The
future of racing is wall -to -wall betting opportunities, embracing 11am banded
meetings, races every ten minutes each afternoon, twilight meetings at Great
Leighs and floodlit evening all-weather meetings at Kempton, Musselburgh and Wolverhampton. What a nightmare. How can stable staff,
especially from smaller stables be expected to cope efficiently? And what of
the supply of competent stewards – unpaid, and collecting a mere 24p a mile
travel expenses? How long will they endure monotonous evening meetings, without
so much as a glass of port to warm them up?
“Ascot
rebuild June 27, 2006
“Sadly,
[they] created a monster that has changed the face of the royal meeting forever.
“It just isn’t the Ascot that we used to know’ was the most widely heard
comment from Mr Angry’s generation … the new Ascot,
at the expensive end, is a creature of two halves. On the one hand a
monstrously crowded grandstand and paddock area, a non-stop turmoil of shoving
and jostling, and on the other some 200 yards away, a delightfully serene area
of luncheon tents, seafood bars and open lawns far removed from the sight of a
racehorse … sadly, it is a triumph of commerce over style, and glitz over
content. I fear that hundreds, if not thousands, of the so-called ‘elite’ will
never return.
Kempton all-weather
July 25, 2006
“You
cannot please all of the people all of the time, but Kempton seems to have
driven away the whole lot.
“Sale of the Tote
“August 22, 2006
“In
my view, the HRA [Horse Racing Authority] should challenge in court the
government’s right to ‘sell’ the Tote, whose ownership Westminster has claimed by default. In the
1929 Act, there was no reference to proprietary or reversionary
rights. If the Tote falls into outside
hands, it will no longer fulfil its original aims … its demise would be the ultimate
surrender to commercial predators.
48-hour declarations
August 22, 2006
“The
commercial fantasists who claim that sales of ‘the product’ overseas will
enrich UK
racing by up to 20 million by 2008 are
living in cloud cuckoo land. All that has happened by introducing 48-hour
declarations is the creation of a ‘product’ that is not only unacceptable
overseas , but unacceptable domestically, too.
“Champions Day 2006
August 22, 2006
“It
is hard to imagine a more entertaining and thrilling day’s racing than last
Saturday’s Champion’s Day. For this old, insular traditionalist, it beats the
Breeders Cup hands down.
“Prize-money March 26, 2007
“If
stakeholders cannot unite over such fundamental and straightforward issues as
prize-money, what possible chance is there of the industry ‘putting its house
in oirder’ , as requested regularly by lazy and apathetic politicians?
“BBC spending cuts
November 27,2008
“It’s
heartbreaking, but I’m afraid there is no way back. The simple fact is there
are not the people in the corporation who are interested in televising racing
and the viewing figures do not justify the substantial outlay that a racing
outside broadcast requires.
“On the Grand National being
switched from BBC to Channel 4
April 11, 2012
“I
think it’s one of the most catastrophic mistakes that the people with power in
racing have ever made. I think it’s an absolute disaster. Channel 4 covers
racing magnificently , but it is still a minority channel. The BBC’s audience
is now down to around 8.5 million, but I think the audience on Channel 4 will
drop to five or six million, at the most. The sponsors will walk away from the Derby before long as
well. The decision to remove racing from
the BBC will cost horseracing millions.
“The 2014 fixture list
November 15, 2013
“Now
we have the grotesque reality of horseracing on Good Friday, one of the two
holiest days in the Christian calendar …
Lord Howard has objected to all-weather racing being viewed as the ‘poor
relation’ and ‘Cinderella’ of British
racing. That iis exactly what it is.
Attendances, in winter, are minimal. The kickback is frequently
unacceptable, and it has proved to be a hot-bed of corruption in recent years …
it is time the BHA demonstrates it represents the interests of horseracing,
rather than betting operators and entrepreneurs. “
Research: Alex Miller
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