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Virgin trains accused of censorship after removing Daily Mail from its shops
Virgin trains accused of censorship after removing Daily Mail from its shops
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They AFAIK now only sell 3 papers: Mirror, FT, Times, all remoaner papers, which is one of the allegations as Bransons is a remoaner.
No figures that I saw on how many mirrors they sell. But the "they don't sell enough" angle was blown away when the internal memo surfaced. TBH if I'm on a train I grab a metro for short journeys or buy a proper paper beforehand so I've something to read instantly, but that's not the point here really. I sometimes grab the newspapers already on the table, preferably with a completed crossword and sudoko so I can lay it out in front of me and pretend I'm intelligent to the leggy blonde opposite :) |
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: ) very sensible just checking , I suppose they will want to stop you doing that as well
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sitting opposite short legged birds is better on long journeys (nap)
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something would feel like it was missing if the Daily Mail didn't exist
Who could deny that ?... probably only a pillock like Branson |
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What's so funny about this, is the same social justice warriors currently creaming their Oxford bags in joyous excitement at this story, are the same ones who were sooooooooooooo appalled by the Christian bakers that refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
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What more 'LGBT rights' does Branson want and why does he care if the Mail has a different view??
The ignorance of his stance is incredible. Will he allow a UKIP voter to plant his or her arse on one of his seats? Would he feel guilty accepting a ticket fare from someone who reads the Mail Online during the journey? |
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As long as it upsets the usual suspects on here I cant see a problem with it.
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there has been bad blood between Branson and the Mail and the final straw it seems is when the Mail had a go at Virgin at the weekend----SIMPLES.
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Don't spoilt the political victimisation rantings with simple explanations, terry.
They'll have to find another thread now. |
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You said you were sick of threads being turned into an attack on the lefties?
But this is okay cos it's the right? |
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you can see how Sibier Russia ended up in such a mess with the mentality of people like studyform and fife
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They are incapable of understanding the notion of a free press
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Other than Branson (who a, deserves it, and b, can look after himself).
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Hate to be pedantic but shouldn't that be Shush.
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TBH Haud yer wheesht is much better.
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it has nothing to do with right or left , it is about the freedom of the press . Look at it this way we need as many papers to survive as possible
Not just the Mail , the Guardusn and the Times and the mirror etc That is the point . When that is curtailed by any one individual or and government then it is a dangerous precedent |
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You see you can't say Branson is merely and individual , he employs thousands of people , he is a multimillionaire and owns many companies including virgin rail , why he receives massive subsidies from the government
It's our money of course , but the government gives it to Branson |
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So the press should not be censored by either people like Branson or the government
Oftentimes as in Soviet Russia or Communist China they are the same thing , the government and the obliarchs |
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How they would crow if this were happening in the usa russia china etc etc Iran etc etc ho ho
but then not many of them have a free press anyway. |
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You see the same people will be silent when they visit Iran , they will be silent when they visit china and Russia
Not a peep out of people like Branson but he will lecture us about the daily mail When I hear someone like that in England something within me starts to laugh and jeer |
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But of course akabula is correct that in the minds of people like studyform it is always a matter of left and right ,
That is why so far he has found it impossible to condemn this , after all it is the daily mail |
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if it is a public service, with millions of people using that service and receiving public money and government money amounting to billions of pounds it should not be in Bransons power to determine the type of newspaper that he sells or gives away that is a dangerous thing
That is why |
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It is for the very reason that newspapers are not his business that this should not be allowed
He if he wishes can start or buy a newspaper and it can live or die on its sales But he should not be allowed to use the cover and money and power of the railways to spread his way of thinking and his goals |
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Its all about the Mail exposing his abuse of the bidding franchise for his rail business touching a nerve,could be he is in big financial trouble and desperate for the governmnt to let him off the hook( a well used tactic) ,his space programme is gone,his green business for clean fuel losing,his airline struggling with fuel charges and all he has is his brand to market. He dare not lose that but the Mail will headline him from now on.
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surely if its about freedom then virgin have a right to not sell the paper without
harassment, they aint stopping old folk fetching the mail onto the train. |
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the man has always been a self-publicising cretin, but now he's a virtue-signalling cretin he's all the more loathsome.
Branson, sort out your extortionately priced trains with sh1tty service, worst broadband customer service on the planet, and all your other sh1tty companies and get your house in order before you preach to the plebs who fill your coffers every day. I will make a point of buying loads of DMs and carrying them onto the carriage next time I'm on one of your sh1tty trains. |
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Daily Mail should do a PR stunt where they give away the DM for free on platforms with Virgin trains on them, that would wind the tax dodger up
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In a way if he thinks this is a PR victory he's surely made a powerful enemy of one of the biggest newspapers in the country, I think their website is the biggest newspaper site by far.
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Enemies of the people
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Or maybe Enenema
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Richard Branson is so left wing he actually rotates anti-clockwise
Buddy holidays on Moskito Island with Obama. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/07/barack-obama-richard-branson-show-friendship-sport-competition/ |
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stickyvicky you are one thick ****wit if you honestly believe Richard Branson could be described as extreme left wing.
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Never said extreme.
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Branson left wing
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Donny and Branson similar ages but never saw Dickie and Donny teeing it up a Mar a largo ever.
Nor on the same stages/get to-gethers ever in the last 30 years. Wierd that. |
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I wouldn't be the least surprised if Studyform and Fife are pleased that Branson has banned the Mail
They can call themselves whatever they like that tells you all you need to know about people like Branson... and Studyform and Fife |
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Is Branson a totalitarian?
If he isn't then he's sailing pretty close to the wind here by choosing what papers to sell based on their politics. |
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FFS TAKING POSTS OFF ON THIS THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE F? NOTHING I WROTE WAS AGAINST ANY "RULES" BETFAIR MODERATORS YOU ARE USELESS. THIS FORUM ISN'T FIT FOR PURPOSE. TO THE TW'TS WHO DO THE REPORTING... YOU REALLY NEED TO LEAVE THE BEDSIT SOMETIMES |
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You often use your undoubted intelligence to belittle people who are less so. Perhaps they hit back using other means?
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lfc,
I couldn't care less. Nor could the Mail, nor could Virgin. It's a bit of publicity, nothing to do with Left and right. saddo, I need to be stupid to post on here? |