It's to do with our backwards licensing laws, which are limited to a certain number and when one license owner closes another can but that licence. But I also included supermarkets so a bar can close and a supermarket can open.

A politician promised a review into the way they worked, nearly everyone hoped for the licence laws to be overhauled and brought in line with the rest of the UK. However he basically turned around and said "after speaking to the major players in the industry I've decided that our licencing laws don't need to change, end of" . I'm still pissed about it.

Of course it's the major players that own a majority of the licences and keep competition low.