More than 50 pubs a month on average were lost in England and Wales during the first half of 2024.
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00:00Britain is losing its pubs at an alarming rate. Inflation is reducing
00:05customer spending and raising costs, with over 50% of consumers highlighting that
00:11the price of drinks being a key reason not to go out as frequently.
00:16It's an English tradition isn't it? So it's not very good if the old people don't drink.
00:22I like pubs, but I like the traditional type of pub that's going down.
00:28You know, it's the small ones, you know, where people in a local community would
00:33congregate and exchange information, exchange news, you know, used to be part
00:39of the local scene. I think the only way pubs can survive now is to become mega
00:44pubs and we've got plenty of big pubs in Liverpool.
00:47I think more pubs as well now, like, we don't go off and do, but we've met the dog owners,
00:53more pubs now are allowing dogs in, which makes it a lot better for the likes of us.
01:01And with more than 50 pubs a month on average lost in England and Wales
01:05during the first half of 2024, we wanted to know when you last went to the pub
01:11and was it a chain or an independent?
01:14It was last night and it was a quite a large pub and I'm not
01:19gonna say any more about that one because I think you know what I'm talking about.
01:22It was Wetherspoon, which I think's a chain, isn't it?
01:26I don't know.
01:27No, we only go there, we're from the Wirral and when we come over, which is about once a month,
01:34we just, we know where it is, we like St John's Market, we like going round, it's handy for us.
01:41Literally every single day I'm nearly in, like, Wetherspoon, so every single time,
01:45like Queen Square one, one by Liverpool, one Mackey's, literally every single day nearly.
01:52And because it's just easy to have like a quick cup of tea because it's so cheap,
01:56the cup of tea, refillable.