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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Exactly what are you waffling on about now?
This thread is about the impact that a retail branch of Wetherspoons Plc will have upon the economic and social wellbeing of the good people of Accrington.
There are those - such as some in Accy - who suffer from the delusion that the effect will be a positive one. But there are those - like me - who have spent time north and south of Watford and have seen what has happened when Wetherspoons make their ubiquitous presence felt. Like any other national retail chain operation, they are the cancer that destroys the unique identity of towns such as Accy.
You may wish to party today; but when local family owned coffee shops, tenanted pubs and such like pull down the shutters and we go further down that deep, downward economic spiral, then you will rue the day.
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Another wordy but inaccurate reply. The one in Preston completely revitalised the flagging end of Friargate and saved at least two pubs from closure because of the extra trade it generated. The people of Accrington should rise up in protest against their own of course, barricade the doors and pull down the shutters on this monstrosity to save the thriving metropolis that it has become from any encroaching capitalists.
Get back to your oh-so-rare brews of Taylor's Landlord and Jenning's Cumberland Ale, beers which are found so often round here as to be uninteresting to any ale seeker.
One can't help but feel that you've gone native down south.