Politics (and other political stuff)

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26 Jun 2020, 9:38 am

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(26 Jun 2020, 9:02 am)Storx Typical reply of this forum totally ignoring the whole point of the reply and spouting something totally irrelevant and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest. I won't be posting anything more on this though as this is a bus forum and not a discussion about the origins of the rainbow flag and companies suddenly diverting the meaning of it during the month it's for so it has a wider meaning and audience. There's been a few though and you don't just design a bus overnight, this would've been done months before the virus even hit.

Sorry to those who don't politics stuff but it's been on my chest for awhile and it's annoying. It's annoying enough companies becoming sudden pride advocates for marketing reasons it's even more annoying when they suddenly divert it because it can get a bigger audience.

100% agree with you there.

What really annoyed me was the 'Thank You NHS' rainbow, and don't even get me started on the 'Clap for Carers' bullshit. Everyone and their dog took part in that purely for the marketing, GNE are no exception. Look how much they shared on their social media about it!

You think they did it out of the goodness of their heart? Don't make me laugh! (no doubt some people did, but a company doesn't have a heart)

Going a bit off tangent here, if you love the NHS, perhaps don't read on Tongue

Obviously the NHS has been used politically recently, but to me it's absolutely absurd to think of NHS workers as 'heroes', they're just doing their job. They chose to work in an environment where they could potentially come in contact infectious diseases. They knew the risks.

Shops giving them all special treatment, opening early, giving them discounts, letting them jump the queues. Why? If anything they shouldn't be letting them in!
I have family that work in supermarkets (Sainsbury's Arnison in particular) and NHS staff from the hospital walk up to the front of the queue in their dirty uniform, walk around the store like they own the place touching everything. If they're working in such a dangerous environment like we're led to believe, why are we letting them mix with the rest of the population?

Then there's the care workers, what I want to know is how were there so many outbreaks in care homes when the only people allowed in and out were care workers? I get that in the early days patients were sent back to the homes without tests being conducted, but even after that there were still outbreaks.

To me, the real 'heroes' are the ones that didn't choose to put themselves at risk, the other keyworkers that seem to have been forgotten, other than the 'and keyworkers' that was tacked on to the bottom of the rainbows

I have no issues being open politically, but I'm a white Conservative voting Brexit supporter so obviously I'm a racist and my opinions don't count!

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