00:00Hi I'm Theo and this is People on the Street. Today I'm out in Manchester asking people
00:03about bars and restaurants. And that's because since Covid and last year's cost of living
00:07crisis bars and restaurants have had a very tough time of it. Many are closing because
00:11they simply can't keep up with financial demands. We want to know whether people have been affected
00:16personally by it, whether one of their favourite places may have been forced to close and what
00:20they think can be done about it.
00:21What I think is that this absolutely is not the fault of Labour's budget. I don't know
00:26if Labour's budget is going to help or what, but what I do know is that this has been going
00:30on for a long time before that and to try and blame it on them is stupid. Because so
00:35much stuff closed since Covid and it's not been back on the up and up.
00:40I think there's a different atmosphere when you're shopping in store or eating out and
00:44a different environment. But I think it would be sad. I think just going out with friends
00:49for a simple lunch would be different, won't it? Where are you going to go? And what's
00:53going to be, is the price going to be hiked up because everywhere else is closed?
00:56Yeah, it's always going to be worrying. Anything that's changed is a worry, I find.
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