"Dusk till Dawn" Poker Club In Nottingham Diary (by Rob Yong)

[kinboshi]

Might be more chance of lots of people emailing if someone sticks up a template of a letter to send.  Then people can fill in the blanks, edit any bits they want - but they won't be starting from a blank page so to speak?

[Maddog]

I am outraged by this action being taken by Gala and the other casinos. 

After BB4 I will not be attending any one of the casinos that have acted in this disgraceful manner.

email has been sent to OFT, thanks M3boy for the email address, hopefully they might take a bit of notice if they are bombarded with emails from irate poker players.

[M3boy]

I am outraged by this action being taken by Gala and the other casinos. 

After BB4 I will not be attending any one of the casinos that have acted in this disgraceful manner.

email has been sent to OFT, thanks M3boy for the email address, hopefully they might take a bit of notice if they are bombarded with emails from irate poker players.

Thats the idea, I am sure they get hundreds of emails per day on different issue's

Hopefully if they got lots of emails on the same subject, it will push it up the "list of things to look at"

As for a template, I do not think this is necessary, just state in your email "roughly" what LCI GALA and STANLEYS have done

[kinboshi]

As for a template, I do not think this is necessary, just state in your email "roughly" what LCI GALA and STANLEYS have done

Just thinking that it might be important to include certain key points in any letters/emails, and also there are lots of people who aren't sure what to write, or confident about writing an articulate and impressive letter.

On a related note, is it worth setting up an e-petition?

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/

Needs to be done properly and correctly worded if it's done though, not just thrown up without thought.

[M3boy]

Kinboshi, I take your point about people not being confident in writing letters, if anyone wants to know what I wrote, pm me and I will gladly sent it to you via PM

[thediceman]

Personally I think any campaign should be structured and organised as to get maximum effect. This will result in a far greater response and a collective stance would show that the poker community is supportive of the opening of DTD.

Re: a template letter, why not, I hear the one moneysavingexpert has produced against bank charges has been quite effective  . The fact is as soon as a bank receives one of their the MSE's template letters they deal with it far more promptly than those from individuals as they know that these people using the MSE template letter have collective support.

So what is the best way forward, is it to ask people to individually write to their own MP's. Why not ask people to not only write to their own MP's but why not get everybody to send a duplicate letters to the Nottingham MP who's support is surely better than your local MP. I'm also sure that there are other individuals and groups that should also be targeted. Who are the big political figures who could be supportive whether it based on the gaming argument or fair trade argument. Also what media bodies should be targeted. How would Gala feel if they were getting mass negative PR.

It's fine writing as an individual but it's a damn site more effective being organised and working collectively. Thats what Gala and the other parties have done to adjourn the case.

[boldie]

Personally I think any campaign should be structured and organised as to get maximum effect. This will result in a far greater response and a collective stance would show that the poker community is supportive of the opening of DTD.

Re: a template letter, why not, I hear the one moneysavingexpert has produced against bank charges has been quite effective  . The fact is as soon as a bank receives one of their the MSE's template letters they deal with it far more promptly than those from individuals as they know that these people using the MSE template letter have collective support.

So what is the best way forward, is it to ask people to individually write to their own MP's. Why not ask people to not only write to their own MP's but why not get everybody to send a duplicate letters to the Nottingham MP who's support is surely better than your local MP. I'm also sure that there are other individuals and groups that should also be targeted. Who are the big political figures who could be supportive whether it based on the gaming argument or fair trade argument. Also what media bodies should be targeted. How would Gala feel if they were getting mass negative PR.

It's fine writing as an individual but it's a damn site more effective being organised and working collectively. Thats what Gala and the other parties have done to adjourn the case.

agreed. If anyone has a template (M3 Boy's is good) I'd like a copy of it.

[M3boy]

Diceman, I take your point.

Also good point about copying the email to Nottingham PM - I already did this.

At the moment, "lobbying" people like "watchdog" and "oft" is just to get the story to them, as many times as possible in the hope that one if not all of these bodies will look into this case sooner rather than later.

These bodies will have far far greater effect than any public lobby - structured or not

[Royal Flush]

Just a gentle reminder that Gala and crew are no doubt reading this thread so its probably not a good idea to reveal too much!

[boldie]

Just a gentle reminder that Gala and crew are no doubt reading this thread so its probably not a good idea to reveal too much!

fair point.

[Maddog]

Perhaps we should get an email petition going directly to these corporate entities in the hope that they will drop their objections.
I think they should get to know just how p!ssed off everyone is with them.
 

[thediceman]

Isn't their something happening this Saturday were people have the opportunity to discuss some ideas without putting them on a public forum where certain corporate suits can read them???

[Stone]

Maybe lobbying the Dept for Culture, Media and Sport directly may also be a good tactic

tessa.jowell@culture.gsi.gov.uk

[Colchester Kev]

Just a thought, but did Gala object to LCI's application ?

[redsimon]

Just a thought, but did Gala object to LCI's application ?

if they did i dont believe the hearing was adjourned. As the LCI venue is yards from gala's main casino and will have a cardroom too its "interesting" that got through without much fuss