Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
Rather a strong word ‘forcing’. The collapse of small shops/businesses is a sad thing, it’s something that’s happened before in mining communities, areas around, now closed, steelworks etc. Shouldn’t these people be taken into consideration?
Like everything there will be winners and losers. Yes, it's sad when people lose their jobs, but there are no shortage of similar jobs just in different locations. I concur with replies from Canton Kev and Rjk.

If I take my wife's situation, it would cost her £400 and 75 hours a year just to commute somewhere to help keep a sandwich shop open.