Voices: Independent readers discuss how Wetherspoons impacts high streets

The division around Wetherspoons’ existence on Britain’s high streets runs deep.

And Independent readers appear to be just as split as the general population on the cut-price pub chain.

While some labelled Wetherspoons “a curse” and labelled it “image-before-substance” others declared it an “amazing business” and eagerly listed off the pros of newly knighted Tim Martin’s venture.

A few readers declared that they’d never set foot in a Spoons - but others were clearly regulars and were keen to highlight how many “iconic” properties had been saved in town centres up and down the country.

For many the brand’s cheap prices simply can’t mitigate the sour taste left by Martin’s forays into political discourse.

Here’s what you had to say:

‘Rescuing iconic property’

For every plus there can be a minus - but overall a positive.

Mostly for rescuing iconic property from the wrecking ball and not allowing property developers to turn them into squalid flats.