Asda/Tesco Fancy Dress

FFS - why can't you just straightforwardly criticise the crass, money grubbing behaviour of Tesco and Asda? Love the word 'silly

It beggars belief that these products made it to the shelves. What were they thinking? I suspect a few heads will roll. Credit to Mind for their reaction, good to think they'll have an extra £50k in their coffers.

They can just rebrand them as "Zombie" costumes. Don't think the zombies have a support group yet! It was really stupid but at least they have given money to MIND.

Crass and money-grubbing just about sum it up. Heads in the buying department should be wobbling ready to roll. If anybody among my family came into that category I would be incandescent - not just on behalf of people who are not in a position to stand up to this sort of prejudice.
Just think
How would "piccaninny" or "slave" costumes have gone down? No? Right then.

Bluebell

Because I bloody well didn't want to.

It is unbelievable that any company buyer would even dream that they were suitable products and should themselves have boycotted the manufacturers.
Totally speechless now! X

I don't feel incandescent, just very sad. Glad though that it has raised the mental health profile but think £25,000 won't mean a great deal to either ASDA ot Tesco who must see it as good public relations.

J52 You have just taken the words out of my mouth!

£50,000 - a joke. Cheap PR and tax deductible. Lets see them both now work with mental health charities to provide employment opportunities for people with mental health problems - that really would be putting their money were their mouth is. POGS - or would it be 'silly'?

bluebell

Not biting, sorry.

Dear POGS - please don't apologise for not being able to defend your use of the word 'silly' or for any of the failings which result from corporate greed - it's an indefensible position!

What on earth did these Halloween costumes purport to portray?

Sorry ,was it in the news as not heard about them My Grandaughter got a grey fairy one with net last year from Asda

Respect POGS

Something like this Absent

Halloween Mental Health

Certainly rather nastier than merely silly.

Thank you that is terrible why mental health nothing to do with Halloween Have the been taken off the shelves ? i have a daughter with mental health probems I do not think she will ever come home

Not silly - cruel and totally thoughtless.

The appalling thing is that someone must have OK'd these. Probably more than one person. You'd have thought some of the shop managers might have something to say when they saw them out on the shop floor.

Shows how most of society still sees mh issues. Portraying us as bloody, machete wielding killers simply reinforces the beliefs and fears that many have mainly due to the way the media reports the very rare and tragic incidences when a mh sufferer has committed a violent crime. What most people fail to realise is that the vast majority of violent crimes are committed by 'normal' people.

My daughter was fine until she met her ex husband

A few thousand pounds is nothing to these huge businesses and these paltry payments cannot cancel out the damage done to individuals struggling with mental health problems and their families. Shame on them.

I listened to the Jeremy Vine programme on Radio 2 and thought Alistair Campbell spoke very well in condemnation. I was then quite surprised to hear some listeners with mental health issues defending the sale of such costumes as being nothing but a bit of fun. They were young adults and entitled to their opinions but whatever kind of message is being put across to young children who revel in hallowe'en paraphenalia.

I still think the costumes simply reinforce a negative image of those of us with mh issues.