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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
....and the local tenanted public houses are already being boarded up and converted into large family homes(The Adelphi)........
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Regrettably Marg, the pub trade is suffering badly and not because of the easy excuse that the government is crippling them with taxes. The ingenious idea of slotting in a new layer of management between taverns and breweries that would somehow make pubs run smoother has been a financial disaster and that is where the real damage has been done.
Wetherspoons, free houses and other eateries seem to be doing OK, that really should send a message out to all the breweries as to where they've gone so spectacularly wrong and why so many of their pubs are failing.
The only government decision I personally would question is the smoking ban which was a little heavy-handed and the theory that armies of non-smokers would flock to the pubs as a result of it has been unequivocably proved wrong.
However, if other pubs fail as a result of Wetherspoons then it probably won't be the fault of the tenants.