Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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1 December 2009
11:0634148#1
This morning Wetherspoons announced that they will create 10,000 more jobs and open 250 more pubs throughout the UK over the next five years. Great news for those seeking work
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 December 2009
13:5334151#2
Perhaps they will rethink Castle Street
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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1 December 2009
16:3834161#3
Although it is a big success story for Wetherspoons, it is all happening in tandem with the decline of the ordinary pub. Although people on these kinds of forums talk up the ordinary pub but talk is cheap, they dont vote with their feet. I was in a couple of local pubs recently, no names, and sadly I was keeping the furniture company. It was during the week though...so I suppose...
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
18:0634174#4
i agree, in no time at all it will just be a few super-pubs run by the giants like wetherspoons.
their purchasing power is phenomenal, such a pity they can not spare a few bob on the bomb site they own in castle street.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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1 December 2009
18:1034175#5
As much as I understand where you are coming from,Howard,250 new pubs of any description together with the jobs they will provide has to be good news.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
1 December 2009
18:1434176#6
Bloody Tesco with banquettes.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
18:1934178#7
i do not see it as creating jobs marek, people will only eat and drink the same amount when they are out.
to me, it is just the death knell for more small establishments.
Guest 664- Registered: 23 Mar 2008
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1 December 2009
21:4834202#8
It will kill off more than 250 other pubs I reckon. Still, one does one's bit for the independent licensee...
DT1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
22:3434203#9
At the age of 17 when Wetherspoons opened in Dover, whilst drinking a pint of £1 Theakston's Best, I said to my friends "You realise this is the end of the pubs in Dover"
All those people who believe in 'market forces' are ironically those who oppose the likes of Wetherspoons and talk of the charm of the 'local pub'. The Tesco of the pub world, Wetherspoons reduces drinking to the process of getting drunk, in the same way Tesco reduces shopping to the process of filling your cupboards. The food is rubbish, the atmosphere poor and the level of conversation inhibited by the pursuit of getting drunk.
Talk is cheap but I talk with my feet and visit local pubs whenever I get the chance, if only for 1 pint. The small establishments are being killed by this capitalist mentality, much the same way town traders are by supermarkets (as Bern mentions).
However all is not lost: Prince Charles is on the case promoting the 'Pub is the Hub'. It's great to have such a keen pub user on board to promote the diminishing country pubs. Well done Prince Charles, you really understand us so well.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
22:4934204#10
quite right dt, he is one of the chaps.
i think you are being a bit unfair about tesco though, we would not have had dame shirley porter without their founder.
DT1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
23:0134205#11
True Howard, I've heard he loves a light and bitter, followed by some pork scratchings.
Ah, Dame Porter, another shining Conservative, where would we be without these people.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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1 December 2009
23:1534206#12
the good lady was so socially conscious that she paid over 20 million in a fine just so that others would benefit from her largesse.
you would never get the socialists being so generous.
2 December 2009
08:2134210#13
DT1 - you talk my language!!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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2 December 2009
08:2934211#14
Dame Shirley bought me a drink once...... wont hear a word against her!
2 December 2009
09:5434214#15
Admire her drive and competence, loathe her politics!!!!!!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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2 December 2009
11:3134220#16
her competence bern?
with the houses for votes scandal she got caught for?
Guest 684- Registered: 26 Feb 2009
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2 December 2009
12:3534222#17
I hope Wetherspoons finally do the decent thing and do up the woe-begotten 'Damages' in Castle Street, and also have another look at Deal too...either the crumbling Woolies, the crumbling Job Centre or the (soon to be crumbling?) Regent on the seafront.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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2 December 2009
17:2834231#18
The only Wertherspoons I like.
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