Time to boycott businesses that are still trumpeting their support for this ideology. Obviously money is all that matters to them so presumably they'll think again if they start losing it.
It is difficult. A few months ago, I switched my on-line supermarket shopping from Sainsburys to Tesco. I was fed up with the LGBTQ+ stuff all over the Sainsbury website. Final straw was women wearing T-Shirts with "I'm Gay get over it". Insultingly implying that their customers (i.e. me) were homophobic. Also concerned re. unisex changing and loo facilities for their staff. Not very inclusive for women in general and a total nono for Muslims and Jews of either sex).
Switched to Tesco - and now I find they have given £100Ks to Mermaids! Waitrose/John Lewis are way down the GC rabbit hole. ASDA have donated to Mermaids. I just wish that LIDL would deliver as I don't have time to real shop (and hate it). What am I to do? Composing a letter to the CEOs of Sainsburys and Tesco suggesting they spend more time looking at mums net, reduxx etc and less time listening to twitter and Stonewall on the trans issue.
Yes, sadly at the moment that's true. When they make it really obvious I try to avoid them. I won't willingly support businesses that put profits above people if I can help it, but it's impossible to stick to it all the time.
Quite. Pity my cats who love Dreamies....I stopped buying them when they splattered rainbow stuff over their packaging. So even cat treats are politicised. Fortunately, they love Webbox more. Have been replacing Unilever products with other equivalents (Heinz for Helmans etc). Sadly, no other company makes Marmite, so I feel guilty every time I spread it on toast. The CEOs of these companies are arrogant - they know that their customers have nowhere to go. But perhaps the Mermaids debacle may make them sit up.
To be unnecessarily fair to the companies, they are doing entirely on the basis of their bottom line. They are being told by activists and twitter etc, as well as politicians and their competitors, that this whole woke thing is the new normal. So they are trying to toe whatever line they think will make them ethically acceptable to consumers, purely as a cynical exercise to meet CSR/ESG expectations. They really think that push back to wokeness is a minority of actual bigots, so they really think they're doing the right thing. But they do also recognise the genuine consequences of pissing people off too much, so they're trying to walk that difficult line between. They won't change until everyone else changes, because everyone who engages in this stuff is a coward and not a deep thinker. Change, if it's ever going to happen, will come very gradually and then sudddenly, all at once. Much like the downfall of communism.
The barrack lawyer in me led me to google the role of trustees. On the Government website it says since 2020 charity trustees details have to be in the public domain. The Charity Commission will allow dispensations - these have to be applied for and evidence provided to demonstrate why it would be dangerous for the trustees' names to be withheld. The dispensation application can take up to 30 days to process. This raises questions. I understand that Dr B was never shown publicly and that his name only came out through documents released to the courts as part of the Mermaids/LGB Alliance case.
So (1) Did Mermaids apply for a dispensation for Dr B when he joined the board.? And if so on what grounds? (2) Have Mermaids applied and have been granted in a few days dispensation for their other trustees whose names have disappeared from their website? Again, on what grounds? Methinks this is another area where the organisation has broken the law. I don't believe the trustees are going to have death threats, just people googling their past and asking serios questions. Perhaps a letter (recorded delivery) to trustees and senior management from a lawyer would produce results.
Scouse me if I'm being stoopid but when they say Mermaids has lodged serious incident cases, does that mean they're now playing the role of victim? Or does it mean that they concur having a pedophile-adjacent on board was a serious incident?
Is there any truth in the idea that the reason section 28 happened, aside from general homophobia, was because the pro-paedophile contingent of the gay liberation movement had yet to be exorcised from the more mainstream gay acceptance movement, and that they were managing to creep their way in to education in much the same way that Jacob Breslow et al are doing nowadays...?
Time to boycott businesses that are still trumpeting their support for this ideology. Obviously money is all that matters to them so presumably they'll think again if they start losing it.
It is difficult. A few months ago, I switched my on-line supermarket shopping from Sainsburys to Tesco. I was fed up with the LGBTQ+ stuff all over the Sainsbury website. Final straw was women wearing T-Shirts with "I'm Gay get over it". Insultingly implying that their customers (i.e. me) were homophobic. Also concerned re. unisex changing and loo facilities for their staff. Not very inclusive for women in general and a total nono for Muslims and Jews of either sex).
Switched to Tesco - and now I find they have given £100Ks to Mermaids! Waitrose/John Lewis are way down the GC rabbit hole. ASDA have donated to Mermaids. I just wish that LIDL would deliver as I don't have time to real shop (and hate it). What am I to do? Composing a letter to the CEOs of Sainsburys and Tesco suggesting they spend more time looking at mums net, reduxx etc and less time listening to twitter and Stonewall on the trans issue.
If it wasn't so serious it would be funny. What has sexuality got to do with your weekly shop?! Very well done for writing to the CEOs.
It's going to be hard to find brands/business that don't support this ideology.
Yes, sadly at the moment that's true. When they make it really obvious I try to avoid them. I won't willingly support businesses that put profits above people if I can help it, but it's impossible to stick to it all the time.
Quite. Pity my cats who love Dreamies....I stopped buying them when they splattered rainbow stuff over their packaging. So even cat treats are politicised. Fortunately, they love Webbox more. Have been replacing Unilever products with other equivalents (Heinz for Helmans etc). Sadly, no other company makes Marmite, so I feel guilty every time I spread it on toast. The CEOs of these companies are arrogant - they know that their customers have nowhere to go. But perhaps the Mermaids debacle may make them sit up.
To be unnecessarily fair to the companies, they are doing entirely on the basis of their bottom line. They are being told by activists and twitter etc, as well as politicians and their competitors, that this whole woke thing is the new normal. So they are trying to toe whatever line they think will make them ethically acceptable to consumers, purely as a cynical exercise to meet CSR/ESG expectations. They really think that push back to wokeness is a minority of actual bigots, so they really think they're doing the right thing. But they do also recognise the genuine consequences of pissing people off too much, so they're trying to walk that difficult line between. They won't change until everyone else changes, because everyone who engages in this stuff is a coward and not a deep thinker. Change, if it's ever going to happen, will come very gradually and then sudddenly, all at once. Much like the downfall of communism.
To much credence given to the twiteratti and ignoring mainstream people.
The barrack lawyer in me led me to google the role of trustees. On the Government website it says since 2020 charity trustees details have to be in the public domain. The Charity Commission will allow dispensations - these have to be applied for and evidence provided to demonstrate why it would be dangerous for the trustees' names to be withheld. The dispensation application can take up to 30 days to process. This raises questions. I understand that Dr B was never shown publicly and that his name only came out through documents released to the courts as part of the Mermaids/LGB Alliance case.
So (1) Did Mermaids apply for a dispensation for Dr B when he joined the board.? And if so on what grounds? (2) Have Mermaids applied and have been granted in a few days dispensation for their other trustees whose names have disappeared from their website? Again, on what grounds? Methinks this is another area where the organisation has broken the law. I don't believe the trustees are going to have death threats, just people googling their past and asking serios questions. Perhaps a letter (recorded delivery) to trustees and senior management from a lawyer would produce results.
Mermaids Trying To Stay Afloat? 🌊
Supposed updates on their recent engagement with the Charity Commission.
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/mermaids-charity-halts-helpline-services-due-to-intolerable-abuse.html
Scouse me if I'm being stoopid but when they say Mermaids has lodged serious incident cases, does that mean they're now playing the role of victim? Or does it mean that they concur having a pedophile-adjacent on board was a serious incident?
It does sound playing the victim. But surely not. Although they're playing the victim right now about the 'Helpline'.
Yeah, well I'm wondering if that's it. Look at the series of events:-
Mermaids attacks LGBA
That exposes their trustee
They get phonecalls (from angry people, nothing riles the people as much as a pedophile around kids report)
They complain they're being attacked.
I heard tell that a load of volunteers skedaddled which meant they didn't have enough people to man the phonelines. I wonder why the jumped ship, eh?
Is there any truth in the idea that the reason section 28 happened, aside from general homophobia, was because the pro-paedophile contingent of the gay liberation movement had yet to be exorcised from the more mainstream gay acceptance movement, and that they were managing to creep their way in to education in much the same way that Jacob Breslow et al are doing nowadays...?
Urgent for people in Ireland:
https://thecountess.ie/consultation-on-updated-junior-cycle-sphe-curriculum/
Urgent for people in Ireland:
https://thecountess.ie/consultation-on-updated-junior-cycle-sphe-curriculum/
Wow - A month since the start of Mermaids & Co. v LGB Alliance.