Increase in Lotto numbers is shameless

TO have the effrontery to announce a decreased chance of winning the jackpot in the national lottery as good news for consumers is to admit to a brass neck of hitherto unknown proportions.

And don’t anybody try to pretend that the company is entirely in private hands and that Bertie’s Boyos have no influence. We’re not as daft as the boyos hope we all are. In their utter unscrupulousness, it is even presented as being done at consumer request.

It is a fact that more people tend to have a small flutter when the jackpot is larger but that is hardly an aberration to be encouraged in a country where the poor are getting poorer.