Keep your local pub open
About a year or so go our local authority announced that our village primary school “must and will close”, this apparently as a result of some sort of review, no doubt conducted by the mighty pen of some unseen bureaucrat.
Well: the kids, the parents, the villagers, our local MP and others said “OH no it won’t” and the campaign began; banners, TV and radio appearances, marches through the village, posters and many other ways were launched to fight the fight for survival of our treasured 100 year old school, and so the battle was won (we suspect for “now” only but we are ready for any new round they want to bring on).
However as I watched Country File last night and saw the report on a village that has seen its THREE pubs close, I thought to myself why didn’t they fight harder to keep at least one of them open? Once the village school, post office, pub and church go what chance social cohesion?
Fight to keep your pubs open, as on the same Country File program, they featured a set of 100 villagers who financially clubbed together to buy their local to keep it open , good on them I say.
