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Travis Perkins need to move him on and quickly.His personal minority views have no place in being conditionally linked to the company. He was meant to be running a FTSE business not an LGBT appreciation club.
If you’re sufficiently interested to know more about Esses, there’s quite a lot on the internet.
Here’s one.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/expelled-university-free-speech/
I’m going to leave this alone now, with a final post. This lot happened on 11th. May,, Pink News, been subsequently ‘discovered ‘ and is now doing the rounds. I imagine it might be milked for a short period by the media, before their own interest wanes.
https://www.jamesesses.com/p/the-horrors-of-the-pink-news-trans
Brings a whole new meaning to the phrase " dipping your Wickes".
I expect there will be many who whilst appreciating the ongoing conversation on the wider issues, nothing to do with the products, view his comments as clownish, stupid, but not malicious.
Not bothered about that, just whether builders/DIYers view them as sufficient reason to hand in their trade cards and so on, and abandon previous reasons for buying at Wickes.
But if it got to the stage where you had to fill in a questionnaire and show your tackle before they let you in, I’d probably change my mind.
Utter clown, has a Gerald Ratner moment.
It’s all rather stupid, starting with Fraser Longden. I’ve never felt threatened or unwelcome in Wickes, never been offended by staff or particular customers, despite being on the wrong side of Longden’s comments. Doesn’t matter to me.
Shan’t be boycotting to my own disadvantage. We’ll have to wait to see how many activist small builders and DIYers there are out there, sufficiently interested in the media reports to buy their paint elsewhere.
so if you believe a man with a ***** can't put on a skirt and call himself a woman, you're not welcome in their stores? why is a diy chain even getting involved in this ridiculous argument? if the ceo has strong personal opinions on this topic, he should keep them to himself. and while we're on the topic, it's a biological fact that a man with a ***** who dresses as a woman - isn't a woman! i would say the ceo needs to go and soon. the company also needs to urgently issue a statement apologising for his remarks and reaffirming everyone is welcome in their stores. otherwise i can see a lot of people boycotting this company and going to b&q or homebase instead. none of which is going to be good for the share price.
Wow. I just saw what the COO said, basically "bigots" i.e. most of the country, according to him, are "not welcome in our stores". Hahahahaha. How many customers does that leave him? The guy probably thought he was just talking to his mates and matesses, and no-one was listening! Well he just made it to the TV. Will it make the weekend press I wonder and am I too late to short this pile of poo?
hundreds of companies have floats at dozens of pride events. it sounds like the average wickes shopper is just old gammons who don't give a **** about anyone but straight white males.
they are the very reason why pride month exists and why companies show their support. well done wickes. if the share price falls because of gammons selling then i may buy some.
Reading back, I see all this hit twitter and the rest of it getting on a year ago arising from a Wickes Float at a Brighton Pride event. Started the boycotting, GoWokeGoBroke, and similar.
Pee’d off those with no interest in such Wokery. No response to twitter and so on by CEO.
See what happens this time around.
I fear the SP will tank further next week. Social media outrage is snowballing this evening and off the back of things like Bud Lite (Anheuser-Busch InBev down again today) there are now more people willing not just to talk out against this woke nonsense but also take their money elsewhere. All the COO had to do was promote the company and its products. This is a HUGE failure on his part. Will be interesting to see if any action is taken against him in an attempt to cool things down. Personally, I'd throw the kitchen sink at him. Wickes has enough of those....
Apart from some flower arranging, or a bit of fanciful floral decorating, the prancing airy-fairy wokies don’t do any hard work, at all.
That’s why Wickes need to man up, stop alienating most of their customers. End all woke nonsense.
Wickes need to keep to selling door knobs, not silly management talking like a complete nob head.
Woods doesn't know his customers. The average Bob will go elsewhere. Go woke go broke.
Not just toilets. Scotland under the SNP attempted to put a male rapist, Lexi Rose Crawford, into a womans prison recently, understandably not that popular. Don't care what someone wants to be seen as long as dosn't infringe on rights of others. One day the West will look back at this irrationality it is a human right to identify for which you are not.
You can't be in business and do polictics, everyone knows that.
Bigot: “a person who has strong, unreasonable beliefs and who does not like other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life:”. That definition suits Longden very well. Wickes say they are “inclusive”. That should read they are inclusive only of everyone who shares Longden’s ideological views. That isn’t inclusive at all. Longden should stick to selling hardware and paint and keep his political views to himself.
That's me out (sold).
I'm male but I totally agree with biological women not wanting to share toilets and changing rooms with biological men. Forcing them to do otherwise is impinging on their rights. I also agree with women about the sporting issue and their right to have a level playing field.
Xenor, it seems to me that the term transphobia is used by the transpeople, when they don't have logical arguments to refute arguments presented by those they disagree with, who by and large have no problems with people do what they want as long as that is not imposing their values onto others.
Drifted too low on small volumes past month, now very oversold and looks to be yielding circa a 10% dividend now.
Https://www.lse.co.uk/news/WIX/travis-perkins-profit-warning-causes-ripples-across-peer-group-trts3xoc7jvyovg.html
There’s the reason for that, which I was late to pick up on. Sold out of my trade, no harm done.