Pete Brown’s regular Sunday Times beer column this week covers what he acknowledges is the divisive subject of Wetherspoons. If you want to read it you’ll need to avail yourself of a print or on-line edition. After all Pete is not a registered charity!
However one comment he makes is I think worth highlighting. Referring to a North London Spoons he notes
‘Spoons was also the only pub where the posties, teachers and students drank and perhaps more tellingly the only place where you saw people of colour in any numbers that reflected their part in the community’
As someone who drank in the first Wetherspoons (ex-Marlers) in Colney Hatch Lane in Muswell Hill in 1979 and have continued to stop by Spoons from time to time ever since I’d echo that. I’m not sure its what Tim Martin set out to achieve, although Spoons would not have taken off in its original north-east London base if he hadn’t but in times like these its important.
G&T and fine red wine drinker Farage may do photo-shoots in or around Spoons. Meanwhile those who drink in Spoons represent a Britain very different from the one he wants.
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