Page 1 of National Lottery ticket price to double later in the year

A lot of anger is mounting over the price hike from £1 to £2.

Also winning prizes are changing, and not all for the better.

Details....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2263367/Lottery-ticket-price-doubles-2-tax-poor.html

just means we will buy one ticket instead of two!

Some of the quotes from that article were hilarious.

The problem with Camelot is they`ve spread the draws too thinly. Two lottos a week, two euros. Hot picks, daily play, thunderball. Sadly, even if 25% of the current customer base leave, they`ll still increase their profits by half, and `thousands taking to facebook` isn`t going to change that.

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Writer`s Release

You are correct, a lot of people are getting desperate and gambing more. Especially when wages have not risen in three years now with pay freezes, and even wage reductions, people are finding their weekly budgets tight, and hope for winning some cash. A Wishful dream !

Those scratch cards must make Camalot millions. I saw a woman in front of me wining £80 with a card and she just bough another load of cards with that win, now that is frightenly additive.

I used to play until about 7 months ago. I played lotto and plus 5, and thunderball. I hadn`t won on lotto since December 2011 so decided the £6 a week on both games was getting to be wasted money (I had won about £35 on thunderball). I recently checked my lotto numbers and I still hadn`t won on lotto and the plus 5, so that`s over 370 draws and not one penny back.
I agree that people will still play regardless and by moaning that the higher prizes are falling, well it`s still better than nothing and to possibly get £50k for £2 is still a good deal. But you can`t please everybody and some of the moaning is down to the greed of today`s society.

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Gearbox-The-Postie says...
...and some of the moaning is down to the greed of today`s society.Quite right.
For some it may promote hopes and dreams, but unfortunately the whole concept of lotteries appeal to the greedy side of human nature.

I wonder  if that`s going to happen also here in America,   mmm feel  bad for you my UK friends.

An Epetition has been started

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/44560

This item was edited on Thursday, 24th January 2013, 20:53

Quite right too, as double is just greed.

If they has said a slight increase to say £1.20p, but not double, then people would have accepted that.

As someone above stated, the more the price of a ticket, the more the government rake in as tax.