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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Parameters have been changed and the slew of places that have gotten alcohol selling licences in my town are certainly not pubs but i bet they are included in the figures.
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Well yes, they have - but that's exactly the point of the article. 'Pubs' as we have understood them during the 20th century are giving way to other kinds of establishment. Easton quotes analyst Jon Collins who says:
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If your whole market is 50-60 year-old males who have two pints and a smoke in the boozer on the way home from work, you are going to struggle. Now those customers are buying four cans of cheap lager from the supermarket and having a cigarette in their own home.
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So the answer is to diversify. If people are staying away because they can't smoke, offer something else that is more tempting than the prospect of a fag and a can of wifebeater in the livingroom.
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I always wanted a compromise so that all groups had a fair and equal choice and i still believe that is and was the best solution. End of the day come on figures coming out to support the ban were always going to happen and the bbc reporting them in anyway is also no surprise given how far up the backside of this government they are  .
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Oh come on ... the BBC are a news organisation. Reporting this stuff is what they do. One article does not an agenda make.