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High street store Lush brands the police "liars"

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Day6 Sat 02-Jun-18 19:53:03

Headline from the Huffington Post.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lush-police-campaign_uk_5b110682e4b0d5e89e1ea8c0

Home Secretary Sajid Javid wrote: “Never thought I would see a mainstream British retailer running a public advertising campaign against our hardworking police."

I rarely use the store but my grandchildren like bath-bombs. I buy them as an occasional treat for them. I certainly won't be stepping foot side a Lush store ever again.

I for one support our hard working and brave police officers. I wouldn't want to do the job. To brand them all liars and spies on shop windows, no matter what campaign they are backing, is irresponsible and stupid. angry

I am not surprised to discover the owners of Lush are Corbyn supporters.

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maryeliza54 Fri 08-Jun-18 22:06:16

Bloody hell lemon you really never cease to amaze with your utter chutzpah.

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nigglynellie Fri 08-Jun-18 22:33:55

I agree lemon, I wonder the same - perhaps best ignored? It's certainly very trying though?

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lemongrove Fri 08-Jun-18 22:37:19

Yes, best ignored.grin

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notanan2 Mon 11-Jun-18 20:23:42

I've seen that lush have taken down the ads due to "fear for staff safety" with no reference at all to any actual threats....
....which just makes it look more and more like a PR stunt to me...

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Jalima1108 Mon 11-Jun-18 20:27:03

Lush is left of centre? It’s a soap shop.
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and an extremely smelly one too.

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Jalima1108 Mon 11-Jun-18 20:33:23

Lush is one of those rare companies that has a social conscience.
Firms can have 'a social conscience' and behave in an ethical way without behaving in the way that Lush has done, trying to influence young minds against the police in general (if that is indeed the demographic that purchases their products) without telling the whole story and making them suspicious of the police in general if they should ever need their help.

Those officers who behaved in such a way may have been wrong, those who instructed them to do so perhaps did wrong, but they are not representative of the police as a whole.

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Jalima1108 Mon 11-Jun-18 20:34:23

which just makes it look more and more like a PR stunt to me...
there's no such thing as bad publicity!

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Day6 Tue 12-Jun-18 03:19:57

All Jalima said, above. Lush doesn't seem to have much of a conscience about smearing the name of the entire police force. Any PR person with working brain cells would not have taken the political stance Lush did and expect there to be no backlash. More shame on the firm if the whole nasty debacle was a publicity stunt.

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