John Hume used to rhetorically ask opponents, "can you eat a flag?".The Dean of "The Hun Barstewards ate my Hamster" School of Journalism and publisher of the Irish Echo and Belfast Media Group, Máirtín Ó Muilleoir.
Apparently not though at Asda in Andersonstown they insist in selling scores of products with British flags emblazoned on them. I fancied a bit of turkey to go with a sandwich today but couldn't find a pack of turkey without the aforementioned flag.
I prefer to eat Irish produce but failing that, I'll eat anything, as long as it's not branded with a British flag.
Monday, July 27, 2009
"Our revenge will be the laught.. gobbling of our turkeys"
Civic Nationalism is alive and squawking in The Angrytown Asda:
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Words fail me.
Boxer
Its a cracker ain't?! I now have a disturbing image in my mind of Mad Mo'M at home cutting frantically all those little Union Jacks off his M and S Y fronts...
I'm currently working in the Retail Industry. We have to supply explicitly Welsh milk to Wales because they simply refuse to buy any other.
Produce in Scotland is increasingly being marked with the Saltire because it generates significantly higher sales than with a Union Flag.
Meanwhile, in England, they are doing the reverse. Country Life English Butter has now been rebranded as "British" Butter - but for essentially the same reason, this time that Scots and Welsh won't buy anything explicitly "English".
I have to say that this really is a manifestly stupid attitude, if only because the English market is 5 times larger than the Scottish, Welsh and Northen Irish markets combined.
Which means that if they succeed in riling English shoppers, (and I have read calls for boycotts on Scottish products in paticular), then they stand to lose a much larger potential market than their English competitors.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!
And we English are increasinglyh aware of these attitudes, so they really are playing with fire.
Take a look at the Fair Flags Campaign.
Wildgoose,
"Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face!"
This particular guy's media empire has benefited greatly from the largesse of the British taxpayer, makes his attitude hypocritical as well as plain stupid.
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