I mean, the root cause here, if you look at the bigger picture, is that EVERYTHING is getting more expensive and EVERYONE is getting poorer.

Nobody would expect supermarket prices in a pub, it’s obviously going to be more, and that’s expected. It’s not that people don’t want to go out, it’s that they can’t afford to go out half the amount they’d like, because the working class is broke.

I do agree that swapping the VAT around would be fair, because booze is only a component of a supermarket’s business while it’s a mainstay of a pub’s business, but that’s not the main reason people aren’t going out anymore. They are drinking less and less even at home, too.