Yeah if it were as simple as just one or two fewer city centre pubs like you seem to be suggesting than of course the answer is clear. Unfortunately that is not what is really at stake or else this problem could be managed by anyone. It is a bit more complicated than you are making it seem. You know what the knock on implications will be if this is the coup de gras that finally kills the hospitality sector? Thousands of jobs lost will quickly become hundreds of thousands. We are teetering on the edge of a global depression the likes of which we have never seen and to act like jumping into that like it is an obvious and clear choice is incredibly naive. |