The Great Bet: Unraveling the UK Government's Controversial Affordability Checks

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Join us for a special 'The Final Furlong,' as we tackle the UK government's controversial bettor checks. Are these 'enhanced financial risk assessments' just a gamble on our liberties? We've got professional bettor Declan Meagher with Emmet Kennedy to break it down. The government promised minimal impact, but the truth may surprise you. Join us for this must-listen episode as we dissect the implications for millions of punters and the racing industry. Don't miss it! Make your voice heard in the Gambling Commission's consultation process: https://consult.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/author/summer_2003_consultation_lccp_rts_regpanels/ COMPETITION Win a £50 digital One4All gift card To enter, simply 🎧 Subscribe to "The Final Furlong" podcast on your favorite podcast app. 📸 Take a screenshot of your subscription. 📩 Tweet or Facebook your screenshot for a chance to win! 🌟Don't miss out on this exciting competition! Enter now and join us on the Gravy Train!🎉 Venatour Racing Social: If your planning a racing trip to Europe or further afield, check out Venatour Racing Social for a large range of bespoke racing holidays at Venatour.co.uk Form Tools: Proform is the essential tool for punters looking to make money from betting on Horse Racing. Our form book covers Jumps and Flat racing in the UK and Ireland. https://www.proformracing.com/ Clothing: Racing Tee's offer fully customisable horse racing T-shirts, Hoodies, Gilets, Hats and more in your favourite horses colours. https://racingts.com Twitter: @FinalFurlongPod Email: radioemmet@gmail.com In association with Adelicious Podcast Network. Hosted on Megaphone. Follow us for free on Spotify Podcasts https://open.spotify.com/show/3e6NnBkr7MBstVx5U7lpld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Final Furlong podcast.
0:03.4	Make sure you hit the subscribe or follow button on your favorite podcast app so you never
0:08.2	miss an episode.
0:09.3	Now, here's your host, Emmett Kennedy.
0:12.0	You're welcome to the show.
0:13.0	It is great to have your company.
0:14.2	You might be looking for Galway tips, for good wood tips, and you hear us talking about
0:19.3	affordability checks again on the podcast and think, oh, not for me, I'll wait, I'll
0:25.3	go and listen to this in a couple of weeks' time instead.
0:28.9	Let me just say to you that if you want to bet on Galway and Goodwood this time next
0:33.6	year, you need to hear this because our ability to place those bets is very much in question
0:41.3	with huge government overreach over the affordability checks in the UK.
0:45.1	So in this episode of the show, we're going to unpack the flaws of the UK government's
0:49.2	latest white paper, expose misconceptions about betting behavior, and hopefully rally together
0:54.4	to protect the future of gambling as we know it.
0:56.3	We'll do so in the company of a good friend of the Final Furlong podcast, a professional
1:01.0	better.
1:02.0	He runs the website, learn, bet, win.
1:03.3	It's been a while since we had him on the show, but it's great to have him back.
1:06.0	Declan, Mark, welcome back to the Final Furlong.
1:07.8	How are you doing, Emmett?
1:10.1	I mean, good form, my friend, in good form.
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