Five and a half days, that's all it is since my former local closed its doors for the last time, and already it's had its face ripped off. I went past the place for the first time since its demise, on my way back from work this morning - all the Wetherspoon signage has gone, the windows are boarded up, it looks like nothing more than a disused shop (and, indeed, it was a shop before its conversion to a pub, twenty-odd years ago). I doubt if anyone unfamiliar with the area, driving through for the first time, maybe, would realise it had ever been a pub at all. But that's capitalism, of course. People don't matter, either staff or customers, communities don't matter. All that matters is money, and its concentration in the hands of the oligarchy. Money is power - and power corrupts.
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
Love & best wishes to all
Sammy B
. . . and absolute power corrupts, absolutely.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, we live in sad times.
Warmest regards - Dave
Hello Dave
DeleteIt's particularly depressing when a company like Wetherspoon succumbs to capitalistic greed - Mr Martin reputedly set the company up because he couldn't find the sort of pub he liked in his then local area, and while I'm well aware that he's not running a charity, and that if profits aren't forthcoming, the business fails, the disregard of any motive beyond the acquisition of money is hard to swallow.
Love & best wishes
Sammy B