Yorkshire Tea boycott

Dear Mr Sunak.

I cannot tell you how truly really shocked I am at this photograph which clearly demonstrates your use of tea bags

I write as a Yorkshire woman who always takes tea pot, tea strainer and packets of leaf tea on all self catering holidays

If anything demonstrates your unfitness to govern, it is this

Love from

Suzie

I’m slightly left of centre in a political sense and really don’t care what tea I drink so long as you don’t put too much milk in it. DD buys the tea in our household and her criteria is that the bags have to be biodegradable and plastic free, a sentiment I wholeheartedly support.

My sister lives in the Yorkshire Dales - he’s their MP.
I don’t see the problem, unless the very-left think he’s a rich posh boy who should by rights be drinking Lapsang Souchong - or at least Earl Grey?

An unfortunate choice, Yorkshire Tea has no connection other than the name. Obviously it’s not grown in the county nor is it even packed there, it’s just a warehouse and distribution operation.

Blow politics, DH and I love our Yorkshire tea

Can we see the abuse hurled at JC and Labour voters after he posed with the tea, please?

So both the left and the right are incensed GrannyGravy13!
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Unfortunately for lots of people Twitter is part of their daily lives, as GN is for many Grans/Grandpas, whatever their political leanings.

I only posted as it has also been discussed in the Telegraph, and as an illustration on how things become "important" to some, when there are more pressing matters which could be a "cause for discussion/action"

What has 'left leaning Grans' using twitter got to do with the topic under discussion?

Twitter is not the real world

It's as 'real' as any other collection of diverse people. Sometimes I wish it wasn't because you see some truly nasty people on there that you almost cannot believe actually exist, but every group has them, whether on social media or in real life.

I haven't seen the comment that Jeremy Corbyn's picture garnered the same level of abuse.

Quite a few left leaning Grans use Twitter

Always amazes me

Twitter is not the real world

So basically another storm in the Twitter teacup and nothing to do with the political parties.

I have just re-checked the Yorkshire Tea twitter account, and the person who runs it has made multiple requests for people to "be kind" and pointing out that when Jeremy Corbyn posted a similar picture in 2017 they had a similar response from right wingers.

It's utterly ridiculous, if it is happening.

As a right winger, I think I'll give Yorkshire tea a try now. I expect there'll be shortage of all teas soon anyway because of this flu thing!

It seems to be a storm on Twitter (where people of all political persuasions spout all kinds of nonsense) which has then been picked up by the media and nothing to do with the official line from the opposition benches. Do you have a link to Starmer and others calling for this ban?

By Gum! ‘Ow dare they! Their loss anyway!

Presumably none of them drinks “normal” tea but only infusions of rare and delicate plants? How about doing something useful like being an effective opposition?