High street store Lush brands the police "liars"

Since I have posted three comments on this thread MaryE I wonder which one you have taken against ( in your usual
Angry fashion). Time for you to have a chilled glass of something?

lemongrove really really - is that the best you can argue? Well yes probably it is - reductio ad absurdum - a refuge for those who have no logical argument to make. Sad

just passing a Lush shop gives me nausea

Same here lemon.

The scent wafting out is sickly sweet and overpowering. I avoid walking by if I can. I have never hankered after their products. I'll have good reason to cross to the other side of the road now.

People might engage their brains more often if they faced the odd protest as they go about their day

What sort of hellish existence would that be, paddyann if every shop had an axe to grind about matters we hear about in the news?

"You will hear our message!"

Any shop with a political agenda the proprietors wanted to push into my face would not get my custom.

We can walk by street preachers, or protesters ranting about a cause dear to them. Let free speech have a voice but don't force me to look or listen just because I want to buy a bar of soap.

People might engage their brains more often if they faced the odd protest as they go about their day.Far too many think politics is nothing to do with them and they vote for idiots because they dont take time to think about what some of these clowns stand for .I would have no problem with a protest in shops.I've boycotted lots of things over the years because of protests OUTSIDE the shop that I maybe wouldn't have heard of before

Not that it makes any difference to me, as just passing a Lush shop gives me nausea, the strong scents wafting out make me think the assistants should have danger money for working in that atmosphere all day.

Nobody has said it is all Corbyn’s fault, but if Lush have done this to gain left wing kudos from him, he may want to say something about it (or he may not.)
How does everyone feel about all High St shops doing this kind of thing? Peering into Clarks to see Summer sandals to be greeted by a display rant about nurses? Boots piling their windows with coffee cups and dirty disposable nappies to highlight plastic pollution?Shops should stick to selling soaps candles shoes etc not bombarding us with political or ethical messages , and especially not doing it to increase sales in a cynical way.

Love how the ‘argument’ goes

1. Lush are terrible and everyone will boycott them and they will go out of business
2. Lush are terrible but they are not being boycotted by everyone so it is clearly a cunning plot to increase sales
3. Well whatever,it’s all JC’s fault

ab sometimes you know good people just make the wrong call.

Anyone remember how some posters predicted the end of Greggs because of the sausage roll Jesus? Talk about tomorrow’s cyberspace fish and chip paper - Lush were stupid, they are overall a good company, the behaviour of the undercover police in these instances was unacceptable, the police are still dragging their heels over this and the end of the review date keeps being extended, some police behave badly even appallingly - life is complicated and very disappointingly for some of you not all our problems are JC’s fault - get over it.

Lush profits will not be affected, more likely to increase, a cunning if nasty ploy.

I am basing MY opinion on the fact that I have met EVERY single serving police officer in Scotland at least once over the past 40 years .As I said AB there are good and bad in all walks of life .In my opinion this has damn all to do with Corbyn ..and I'm not a labour member or fan .Its like the SNP bad thing here ..anything that happens is blamed on the SNP .. according to unionists ..except if its anything good.People with very narrow minds that cant see past their own predjudices

I will still be a Lush shopper and a quick poll of my AC and their friends shows they won’t be abandoning the brand either. I suspect those who support them (even if not agreeing with this campaign) will continue to shop there. In our local store it’s mainly young people purchasing and our large population of foreign students (who won’t understand the campaign anyway) I can’t seem them abandoning the brand.

I agree people are allowed opinions, in my opinion Corbyn is a hypocrite intent on destroying the Labour Party.

Not all police are paid to lie , I need no sympathy from you Paddyann.

FGSNiggly my ggf was a serving police officer who died on duty ....so should Corbyn be blamed for HIS death? Get some perspective on this .I WORK for Police Scotland as part of my business.They are in my opinion (mostly) a great bunch of hard working ,committed ,honest individuals.There are the odd ones who we say will either end up chief constable or in JAILNot ALL police personal are saints or angels ...just like every other walk of life and while I'm very sorry for Annies loss ..it was a very long time ago and we cant be expected to tiptoe around her and bypass the truth.People are ALLOWED opinions ..or maybe not on here ?I just looked at my post as and I made NO derogatory comments about the Police ...I did mention AB 'S nemesis Corbyn.Maybe she could just bypass his name in post....or maybe not its usually her who brings him into the conversation.

I'm not so sure Annie. If you have a look at their Facebook pages, there are many, many posts saying how disgracefully Lush have behaved towards the police force and there seems to be little sympathy or support for it. Not all free publicity is good publicity. Time will tell......

Interesting Chewbacca, I hope they lose some of their profits but I doubt they will

This is just one of the comments left on the Lush Facebook page:

Awoke to see Lush cosmetics undergoing the Ratners effect, the speed of people's responses
and the volume here may well leave them with a crashed brand by the time they open....
But that's what happens when you publically make sweeping generalisations about one of
our hard pressed emergency services eh ...
Lush, you had a good run on the high street, idiots .....

Not an exaggeration, they have branded police liars, given the problems between police and some young people the police are going to be taunted by this

The Lush UK Facebook page has received 30,000 negative reviews, mostly in the past 48 hours.
The campaign is set to run at all Lush shops in the UK until 17 June.

Can't help thinking that by the 17th June, they'll have done themselves so much damage they'll be lucky to survive.

Anniebach Slight exaggeration! We are talking about a campaign not a massacre!

So if another pedophile ring is exposed it’s ok to say ‘men are pedophiles ?

No, they were were not right to draw attention to it.
Any undercover ‘police scandals’ are not dealt with by shops on the High St putting window displays like this up, which
Appear to be equating police with lies.This simply reinforces some young people’s mistaken distrust in all our police.
What if all shops did this sort of thing? Depending on the politics and leanings of their owners?
This is much worse than the Ratners mistake, which was a comment uttered by Gerald Ratner in private that their
Goods were crap.It won’t be worse in the sense that Ratners went bust over it, and Lush won’t, but what Lush have done,
Is a first for a retail outfit, in publicly going after the police
In this way.
If they are supporters of Corbyn and have done this in some sort of cack handed left wing ‘trumpeting’ (and it seems they have) then Lush have added to the growing dismay felt by many over the type of people he is attracting
To the Labour Party, the zealots, the revolutionaries, the bully boys, the ‘use any tactic’ types.

There have been several undercover police scandals and I think they are right to draw attention to it. However, from what I have read the way this was done was very clumsy in that it seemed to suggest all police officers behaved improperly.

I don't buy Lush products but it is a company which produces cruelty free cosmetics, bath and beauty preparations. Since most of the cruelty-free brands have been taken over, e.g. Liz Earle and Body Shop, I think it would be a great shame if this closes down any or all Lush shops.