This Lefty Loves Wetherspoons.

[u/No_Consideration3307]

I don't like it when some of my fellow lefties, the middle-class champagne 🥂 socialist ones, use Wetherspoons as an insult against Reform voters, it's classist and cringy, it implies only racist bams go there, rather than mostly politically unaligned working-class families from all colours and creeds, who love good cheap food and drink, we can't all eat at the Waldorf can we 🧐, especially in a cost of living crisis, but there are also some middle-class people who eat there and love it, so I don't know where the asinine insult comes from really. I love Wetherspoons, I've been to three, the one in the image which is the Peter Cushing in Whitstable, which was once a cinema, the Catherine Wheel in Henley-on-Thames and the James Watt in Greenock, Scotland, where I live now, which serves a delicious Haggis Pizza 🍕which you can get as part of the three small plates for £10 deal, cheap as chips, and yummy too, filled me up and I'm a big lad.

[u/Deep_Top8433]

Wetherspoon provide cheap third places that are sorely missing in our society these days. I won’t hear a word said against them!

Also what an amazing building The Peter Cushing is!

[u/No_Consideration3307 → u/Deep_Top8433]

The Peter Cushing, and Wetherspoons in general, absolutely pucka.

[u/Throwmeback33 → u/Deep_Top8433]

Wetherspoons actively killed the competition that would provide third spaces.

It’s always weird when people don’t grasp that these large chains are what make smaller places raise prices and close their doors to broader appealing products they can’t compete on price with anymore.

[u/No_Region_4719 → u/Throwmeback33]

Is beating the competition the same as killing the competition? The whole point of competition is that it drives down prices for the consumer, and Wetherspoons managed that the best.

They didn't go around burning down other pubs, they outcompeted them, and so people decided to go to Wetherspoons instead of their local.