Virgin trains accused of censorship after removing Daily Mail from its shops

I suppose if you funnel all your profits offshore you can afford to make a stance.

Ryanair still sell the Mail onboard.

£2 Euros per page.

Virgin own cable don't they?

I hope people don't suddenly realise how expensive it is, and swap to one of the other providers that are much cheaper.

I thought Branson had got more sense than that.

He must be losing his grip.

I would had thought Virgin trains job was get people from a to b not decide what they may read, what next, blocking the internet connection on the train ?

i've never seen a paper for sale on a train , sometimes see them left behind but never for sale

Or scattered on the floor.

IS - whatever their core business is, outside that they can largely do what they want.... Choose their coffee suppliers, decide what ciders to sell, choose their toilet paper supplier..... now there's an idea!.  Seriously though, what is the problem here.

Branson's taking a stance against the right.

Wouldn't it be funny if Corbyn won the next GE and nationalised all his companies.

Couldn't he have an article published in the Guardian or Independent to slag off the daily fail.  Oh! Hardly any one reads that, and the other went under as a newspaper

oops  sorry about that

What would Branson know about this Country Does he even Live here anymore ???

Most news Papers Print what they think their readers want to Read it is up to the Individual to Chose what he/she wants to Read ...

If there is a particular employee or number of employees involved in this decision then they along with Branson should have to justify this decision on business grounds in court .

Branson's losing the plot.
He's a businessman first and his personal opinions should take a second place to that.

Using his company as political tool is bad business in anyone's book.

Do people really believe that by banning a truly awful newspaper that it change the way anybody votes, this is probably a personal feud  between branson and the mail , its is laughable though when a rotten rag like the Mail cries about being picked on

I'm not a Branson groupie but most of his recent utterances seem to be thinly-disguised adverts for Neckar Island.

The only three papers Virgin trains will sell are the Mirror, the Times and the Financial Times.

Where's the thread for outraged Guardian readers?

As usual people like ramruma don't understand, it is not a question of whether the newspaper is on the left or right or liberal
Why has Branson stopped the Mail , that is the question
Did they not sell and the times and financial times and mirror did sell ?
We don't know

Ahh but we do know. The original story released was that there weren't enough sales, but it since then an internal memo has come out that it's poltically motivated, snowflake crap , quote from virgin memo:... "the Mail’s editorial position on issues such as immigration, LGBT rights, and unemployment"..

There is a principle at stake here imho. Do they make a loss if they aren't sold? The daily mail oversteps the mark but I'm sick to death of the attacks on freedom of speech and debate by the left, the no platforming, the safe spaces and so on, the calling everyone they disagree with racists and so on. I use trains, next time if there's a choice it won't be Virgin. Last Virgin train I used was cr*p anyway, virtually no luggage space and corridors piled high with it, shudder to think about what would happen in an accident.

virgin money have lounges up and down the country where you get a cuppa and can read the paper

i wonder if mail will be available?