The word "bingo" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to exclam when something has been discovered or has been achieved. Example sentence: "We've got the answer - bingo!".
There are good reasons to be supporting bingo, there are good reasons to be encouraging our pub sector to be stronger - that's the analysis behind those measures".
He told Newsnight on BBC2: "There are good reasons to be supporting bingo, there are good reasons to be encouraging our pub sector to be stronger – that's the analysis behind those measures".
Oh, and the Bingo Association has pointed out that reducing duty of bingo hall profits from 20% to 10% will have "no money-in-the-pocket effect for customers", so let's park that in the "patronising and irrelevant" box.
Osborne told BBC Breakfast: "I think it's patronising to say that it doesn't matter what the price of beer is or it doesn't matter that we don't help our bingo halls.
The announcements with the biggest cheers included halving bingo duties to 10%, taking 1p off beer duty, and scrapping inheritance tax for workers in the emergency services who die on the job.
Love @JOSHPYKE "Leeward Side" #hottest100 Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 1.00pm AEST02:00 My colleague Helen Davidson suggests that we could do with some kind of Hottest 100 bingo.
Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.02pm AEST03:02 We should have had a harmonica in the Hottest 10 bingo.
A successful progressive movement must now be Citizens Advice bureau, housing association, scout troop, trade union, credit union, bingo hall, food bank, careworker, football club and evangelical church, rolled into one.
Because three-quarters of the bingo halls in this country have closed in recent decades.
Asked about the furore, David Cameron's official spokesman said he would not be commenting on whether the prime minister had seen the tweet or believes poor people like bingo and beer, although he backs up the chancellor and still has confidence in Shapps as Tory chairman.
Other tweeters accused Shapps of being patronising to working people by reducing their hobbies to bingo and beer.
