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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:55:26 +0000

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By: Akela

Akela — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:08:32 +0000

Small comfort though it may be I have only ever encountered one Star Reader. He never actually read it though, prefering to skip straight to page 3 and just stare. With luck it means that whatever they write wont actually have any effect.

Still a bunch of utter arseholes though.

By: D-Notice

D-Notice — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:17:26 +0000

I didn’t think it was possible to remove subtlety from the Express, but I stand corrected… *despairs*

By: Sean Mc

Sean Mc — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:12:42 +0000

Anyone seen this article on CiF? Some of the comments make me really despair for this country http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010/jul/07/supreme-court-gay-refugees-right-to-asylum?showallcomments=true#comment-51

By: Whybird

Whybird — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:36:20 +0000

Oh — having done a similar thing last time Clarkson went on a homophobic rant in the Times, the advice I’d give is not to object to the advert’s position in the paper but to the advert appearing in the paper at all.

By: Whybird

Whybird — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:34:28 +0000

You don’t need to buy them — you can look on their website (though not at work, obviously) to see whose adverts they’re carrying.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:32:53 +0000

Correspondence from Waitrose customer services, seems like they don’t really give a fuck about the fact they are supporting a sickeningly bigoted porn-monger:

To:
>
Subject: Please unsubscribe me from your
> mailing list

I will never shop at Waitrose or John Lewis again until you
> cease
financially supporting the openly bigoted and homophobic Daily
> Express!

Please therefore remove me from all of your mailing
> lists.

On 8/7/10 13:48, “Customer_Service@waitrose.co.uk” wrote:

> Thank you for your e-mail.

I’m sorry to hear that you have been sent unwanted
> mailings from us. I can confirm that I have passed your details to the
> relevant department to be removed from our mailing list.

However, there is a
> small chance that your details may have been selected for another mailing
> before we received your request, and so I apologise in advance for any further
> mailings you may receive from the John Lewis Partnership and assure you that
> your request has been actioned.

Any further problems please don’t hesitate to
> contact us.

Regards,

Chris Zawadski

Waitrose Customer Service.

No, You appear to have not bothered to read my email.

I was a subscriber to Waitrose email alerts, and have been happily receiving them now for some time. It is just that I am no longer happy to receive any marketing correspondence from John Lewis if you continue to advertise with The Daily Express. If you believe that this headline fits well with John Lewis’ and Waitrose values then I wish to have nothing more to do with your organisation: http://twitpic.com/23en1s

If John Lewis and Waitrose cease advertising with The Daily Express I would happily consider being a loyal customer of yours once again.
Regards,
Mark

{No response from them as yet and therefore I shall be buying my Elderflower sorbet and tenderstem broccoli elsewhere!}

By: jinx

jinx — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:09:14 +0000

could there be a way of organising a mass e-mail / facebook campaign or letter post?

By: Fat Roland

Fat Roland — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:34:29 +0000

I’ve just posted this on my Facebook. Feel free to copy and paste it, fellow readers (you can edit out the ‘buying’ bit if you chose not to do that, obv’slee!):

Following the horrendous stories in the Star and the Express about the gay asylum thing, I’m going to do something I’ve never done before. I’m going to buy the Express and I’m going to buy the Star and I’m going to get busy writing to their advertisers. Anyone want to join me?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:49:00 +0000

Yep, just before reading this article I had emailed Waitrose to ask to be removed from all of their mailing lists until they, and John Lewis, are no longer financially supporting the Daily Express cunts!