Amusing, but somewhat unfair to Wetherspoons who, in my experience as a customer, have always followed Covid rules - unlike Boris - and taken appropriate steps to make their pubs safe to use.
Tim Martin has been on my list for years, so nothing surprises me. If he can raise the money, I expect him to take back the British Empire anytime soon.
He certainly does - a friend of mine, Brian, was the owner of a pub in one of our local villages here. They took a lot of trouble over their ales, and had a good reputation, but they couldn't compete with the big pubs in the towns. Some beers were on sale at Wetherspoons in Edinburgh at prices which were cheaper than Brian could buy the stuff from the brewery. It's OK, all part of the free market economy, but Wetherspoons could shift so much beer that they could buy short-dated stock, because they knew they would sell it. Brian couldn't do that, so he couldn't compete, and eventually he called it quits and sold the pub. No hard feelings!
Hi Tony, a sad tale and no doubt happening all over the UK. As I said I'm no fan of the man, he treated his staff very badly at the start of the first lockdown and lot of people were saying they would not return to Wetherspoons, but of course when the good old Ruddles Best was on sale at around 50% of what other pubs could sell it for (loss leader?) then the customers flocked back. I should add that I have only been into Wethersoons a few times since returning to the UK and that was pre covid for family meals and that I have not had a pint of beer in a pub since my Diabetes diagnosis, for some reason I seem to have gone off the stuff!
Come the glorious day citizen they’ll all be up against the wall. We’ve been living through some interesting times lately haven’t we. I’d probably best go and gather up some rubbish so I can build a barricade at the end of the road. It’s clearly time we had a revolution. As my old friends Rage Against The Machine used to sing - “it has to to start somewhere, it has to to start sometime…what better place than here, what better time than now?”
Right then, where’s my beret and my Guevara T shirt
I will continue to pay my £3.25 per month Labour Party subs as I have done for years (decades in fact save a break when Brown was in power and I could not live with his Draconian attitude). I follow politics on a daily basis although try to keep it from the blog, recent events though have had me seething. I do like a good anti establishment tune myself JBM :)
Amusing, but somewhat unfair to Wetherspoons who, in my experience as a customer, have always followed Covid rules - unlike Boris - and taken appropriate steps to make their pubs safe to use.
ReplyDeleteNo disrespect meant to Wetherspoons :) I'm a customer myself, I mean Ruddles Best at that price!
DeleteSeeing this made me laugh out loud!
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
Bob
Me too Bob. Glad to read you are feeling rejuvenated.
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Tim Martin has been on my list for years, so nothing surprises me. If he can raise the money, I expect him to take back the British Empire anytime soon.
ReplyDeleteI'm no fan of the man and the way he treated his staff during lockdown, but he does sell his beer cheap!
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He certainly does - a friend of mine, Brian, was the owner of a pub in one of our local villages here. They took a lot of trouble over their ales, and had a good reputation, but they couldn't compete with the big pubs in the towns. Some beers were on sale at Wetherspoons in Edinburgh at prices which were cheaper than Brian could buy the stuff from the brewery. It's OK, all part of the free market economy, but Wetherspoons could shift so much beer that they could buy short-dated stock, because they knew they would sell it. Brian couldn't do that, so he couldn't compete, and eventually he called it quits and sold the pub. No hard feelings!
DeleteHi Tony, a sad tale and no doubt happening all over the UK. As I said I'm no fan of the man, he treated his staff very badly at the start of the first lockdown and lot of people were saying they would not return to Wetherspoons, but of course when the good old Ruddles Best was on sale at around 50% of what other pubs could sell it for (loss leader?) then the customers flocked back. I should add that I have only been into Wethersoons a few times since returning to the UK and that was pre covid for family meals and that I have not had a pint of beer in a pub since my Diabetes diagnosis, for some reason I seem to have gone off the stuff!
DeleteI'm assuming this is related to the BJ Christmas thing? Those of us from the colonies might be confused . . .
ReplyDeleteCorrect FMB, Wetherspoons is a popular British pub chain :)
DeleteLee.
Come the glorious day citizen they’ll all be up against the wall. We’ve been living through some interesting times lately haven’t we. I’d probably best go and gather up some rubbish so I can build a barricade at the end of the road. It’s clearly time we had a revolution. As my old friends Rage Against The Machine used to sing - “it has to to start somewhere, it has to to start sometime…what better place than here, what better time than now?”
ReplyDeleteRight then, where’s my beret and my Guevara T shirt
I will continue to pay my £3.25 per month Labour Party subs as I have done for years (decades in fact save a break when Brown was in power and I could not live with his Draconian attitude). I follow politics on a daily basis although try to keep it from the blog, recent events though have had me seething. I do like a good anti establishment tune myself JBM :)
DeleteLee.
I can't say anything, I might get banned from your blog!
ReplyDeleteI think I know how you feel Ray :)
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