Mecca Bingo is asking for everyone’s help to save our bingo. The game of bingo has now been around for generations and it goes way back to the 16th century, it is believed to have culminated in Italy in the form of a Lottery and it rapidly spread throughout Europe in many different forms, which eventually led to the game of bingo that millions of players know and love to play today.

Our bingo halls are now under serious threat of closure; we have seen many bingo halls already closed down in the past year. Mecca Bingo is asking for your help before it is too late and we see yet more bingo halls closing down. Most bingo players are probably aware by now that it is the double taxation law that is placed on the bingo industry that is causing real concern for everyone involved in bingo.

The Bingo Industry are the only industry that have the double taxation law, this unfair taxation is placing a huge burden on them. Mecca Bingo says that it is this law that is ultimately causing the bingo hall closures and I have to agree. The smoking ban has not helped either, but the bingo clubs are coming up with ways to fight back against this by providing smoking shelters outside their clubs, ect, but unless the government sit up and listen now to what the bingo industry are saying about the taxation law, yet more closures could be on the way. It is estimated that the government will lose over £700,000 per annum for every bingo club that has to close, so you would think that is was also in their interest to take note of what is happening to the bingo industry now!

Mecca Bingo has now set up a petition on 10 Downing Streets website and they need your help to bring it to the attention of the government. Once the petition reaches over 200 signatures the Prime Minister is obliged to have to read it and if Mecca Bingo can get over 21,000 signatures their petition will be up there with the most popular petitions that are currently going on at the moment. It is Mecca Bingo’s aim to show the Prime Minister how important bingo is to millions of people in the UK, including the people that work in the bingo industry.

To help save our bingo and join Mecca Bingo in their plight, then click on this link below to sign the petition.

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

To more people that sign, then the more hope Mecca Bingo will have of getting their views and us the people views heard. The deadline to add your signature is 11th April, so you must sign before this date.