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Royal Mail postal workers in Merseyside are risking the sack by refusing to deliver copies of the Sun newspaper.
One of them explained why:
“We would be delivering it to people that were at Hillsborough and to people that lost a loved one or knew someone that died at Hillsborough.”
He also said he “felt sick” that he would have to handle it.
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Here’s the full story from the Liverpool Echo:
Postmen refuse to join in The Sun’s World Cup charm offensive
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Related articles by Tom Pride:
Tories apologise for making electioneering phone calls during Hillsborough memorial
Merseyside MP Esther Mcvey sends a political tweet during the Hillsborough service
Top Tory Bernard Ingham calls relatives of Hillsborough victims ‘contemptible’
Over a third of Hillsborough victims were kids or teens. And still being blamed.
Name the guilty. The Sun’s ‘source’ for its Hillsborough story was ….. Tory MP Sir Irvine Patnick.
Don’t think Chief Constable Bettison should resign over Hillsborough? You will when you read this
Too late to strip ‘Sir’ Irvine Patnick – the Sun’s source for its Hillsborough story – of his title
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Pride's Purge 
Reblogged this on sdbast.
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im surprised there still any demand for it around that way anyway.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
I am not surprised that the people are boycotting the Sun in Merseyside. After the vile smears the newspaper made about the Liverpool fans causing the Hillsborough disaster, the people of the city of the Beatles went out en masse and cancelled their subscriptions. I also remember that they very publicly burned copies of it. The Sun has since then apologised, and been more supportive of Liverpool and its people. This is because its editor at the time, Kelvin MacKenzie, has now moved on to other papers. He can, however, still be seen occasionally propping up Alan Titchmarsh’s couch on his show in the afternoons.
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Doesnt go far enough, as far as i’m concerned, i make a point of boycotting anything with Murdochs grasping claws in the pie…
No good just The Scum if you watch the match, either paying at the gate or via Sky tv or streamed Via Sky broadband. No good getting the results via his Media or News group, and dont watch Fox films. The old cunt doesn’t knowingly get a penny in revenue from this household
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Tom – This isn’t satire, nor is it journalism, it’s just the equivalent of a retweet. However, it is a prompt for a debate, and that’s always a good thing… so perhaps for once you could actually join in and discuss the subject you raised. What would you do if you were one of these Liverpool postal workers?
I would put an undeliverable sticker on them and return them to the sender. Make the Sun pay!
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Reblogged this on Vox Political and commented:
Good for the Royal Mail workers in Merseyside. Organisations like Sun owners News UK rely on the assumption that people have short memories – most often in their political reporting – and so do politicians. Here’s a reminder that some of us can remember exactly how much damage such irresponsibility can do, and that we’ll take every opportunity to make them pay for it.
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Same here. Haven’t touched a newspaper for years, haven’t got a tv licence as we don’t watch tv, at all, don’t have sky broadband and don’t watch Fox films.
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I was living in Liverpool at that time and watched the horror unfold. My 13 year old son and his friend, with his father, had just missed out on tickets and I will be thankful for that for the rest of my life.
I saw the burning of newspapers everywhere, I saw people going into their local newspaper shops and cancelling their subscriptions whilst also taking back copies of the paper and throwing them on the floor.
Liverpool was in deep mourning, I have never experienced anything like it – everybody was affected.
Then along came that rag and printed the biggest lies about the supporters whilst also showing pictures of young people suffocating as they were pinned against the rails – instead of taking pictures the evil bastards could have been helping, along with all the photographers, but no, their stories had to come before everything!
Liverpool will never, ever forget what that rag of a paper did, nor will they ever forgive!
If I was a postal worker around the Merseyside area, I too would walk out.
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Reblogged this on Jay's Journal and commented:
I would walk out as well. The Sun is a disgusting rag and is full of lies – it will never, ever be welcome in Liverpool and the surrounding areas!
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Jaypot …and if you have a family to support and the chances of getting another job are slim…?
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You don’t have Sky broadband? Well, aren’t you the moral warrior! Which broadband DO you have, and why is it so much more moral than Sky?
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The Sun don’t care about demand. They’re simply mail-shotting this free for a bit of PR.
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Jaypot – I’m using the Phone Co-op. Will you answer? I doubt it!
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A free post address can be found at
http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/topics/index.cfm?FUSEACTION=TsBroadcast.search&RECORDID=286438&OBJECTID=3A1ECD56-2ED8-40F7-B985-074F7D7F962D&SUBJECTID=A80F98CF-45C5-4F23-B548-993CE7D6B0C2&SEARCHHANDLE=BF6DEB74-F3C1-836A-7CD7E1EF6CB154D1&startRow=341&p2sid=2A71C95C-D874-1CCE-4EBC2E25375B6BEF&themeid=774CCC0C-0B1C-4ACC-9520-08DA18BAE94F
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Do you actually know anything, Finkfurst, about Lew Grade and Alan Sugar creating the Football Premiership purely for TV revenue, and the Antipodian cunt using that as springboard for fucking everyone over, with a plan to get Sky TV in every home and getting Sugar’s Amstrad satelite dishes bolted to the wall, using The Scum as handy pre paid advertising material?
Sky broadband, Sky TV, Media Group News, Fox TV, Fox film, FX, Sport ticket sales on the gate- all are money in uncle Rupes pocket, so no fuckin’ thanks.
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There are certain jobs that could never pay me enough to prostitute myself- not in any particular order:
Filth. Screw. Probation. Traffic Warden. Bailiff. Loan shark. News Group Journalist.
Yeah, i would chose hardship, over knowingly fucking others over.And yeah, i have at times suffered for these principles and will again
Some of us have a backbone, some…
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And before you put finger to keyboard in your next charm offensive,
D’ya think Auld Rupes misses the odd couple of quid that i dont throw his way?
No, i aint that naive.
But if enough people engage brain and refuse to partake of offensive corporations, if people start to realise that by buying in to these organisations products that they propagate the harm caused, they are actually a party to it by their subscription.
These corporations exist solely for profit, often marketing shite that no one needs, convincing people they are worthless without whatever utter bollocks they want to push.
You’d kick and scream no doubt if a drug dealer moved on your street, yet Murdoch pumps a far more harm through millions of doors daily, but that acceptable
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Ulysses
I like the “charm offensive” quip… So here’s some more for you!
“These corporations exist solely for profit”… Of course, what the f*** did you think they were for… re-homing cute little kittens?
“You’d kick and scream no doubt if a drug dealer moved on your street, yet Murdoch pumps a far more harm through millions of doors daily, but that acceptable”… I have a shop selling alcohol and tobacco on my street. If you think Murdoch causes more harm than alcohol and tobacco then you’re a f***ing idiot.
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Ulysses – I’ll pick just one from your irrational list… Probation. Do you think helping people to get their lives back together after they’ve been f***ed up by prison is a bad thing?
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P.S. Ulysses – I have no interest whatsoever in football, but if some people are willing to get ripped off by Murdoch in order to fanatically follow their bizarre tribes who are obsessed about kicking a small sphere around a field, then that’s their problem.
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