Betty booth
19th September 1991, Page 24
19th September 1991
Page 24
Page 24, 19th September 1991
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1 et's face it, up to now the genera]
election has been a dismally unprofitable affair with the political parties spending their cash without any guaranteed return — in the case of the Liberal Democrats, no return at all.
H Backhouse of Henfield may offer an answer, having set up what it believes to be the UK's first mobile betting shop. The 'shop' sits on a turbodiesel Leyland Daf 400.
Think of the possibilities with an uncertain election result. Each party could tow a betting shop behind its gaily painted canvassing bus and earn a few extra quid instead of just shouting the odds.