Garden centre owner's '10% tax for Tory voters' sign goes viral

[octoberlib]

The owner of a small garden centre in East Sussex whose anti-Tory blackboard went viral on social media says he has no regrets, despite admitting it could put him out of business.

Matt Woodruff, the owner of Woodruffs Yard in Lewes, said he was moved to vent his political views on his shop’s blackboard after the Conservatives took the local seat that had been occupied by the Lib Dem former Home Office minister Norman Baker.

The sign proposes a “Tory tax” of 10% on any customer who voted Conservative as one of the “‘tough’ decisions I need to make to ‘balance the books’ under your preferred government”.

The sign also says Ukip voters should “shop elsewhere”.






http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/10/garden-centre-owners-10-tax-for-tory-voters-sign-goes-viral

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I suspect this move will not put him out of business.

Anybody remember whatever became of Ian's Pizza in Madison?

[octoberlib]

3. I'm not familiar with Ian's Pizza. Did they put a sign up, too?

[Jackpine Radical]

4. From MoJo--

The call reportedly arrived from Cairo. Pizza for the protesters, the voice said. It was Saturday, February 20th, and by then Ian's Pizza on State Street in Madison, Wisconsin, was overwhelmed. One employee had been assigned the sole task of answering the phone and taking down orders. And in they came, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia, from Morocco, Haiti, Turkey, Belgium, Uganda, China, New Zealand, and even a research station in Antarctica. More than 50 countries around the globe. Ian's couldn't make pizza fast enough, and the generosity of distant strangers with credit cards was paying for it all.

Those pizzas, of course, were heading for the Wisconsin state capitol, an elegant domed structure at the heart of this Midwestern college town. For nearly two weeks, tens of thousands of raucous, sleepless, grizzled, energized protesters have called the stately capitol building their home. As the police moved in to clear it out on Sunday afternoon, it was still the pulsing heart of the largest labor protest in my lifetime, the focal point of rallies and concerts against a politically-charged piece of legislation proposed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, a hard-right Republican. That bill, officially known as the Special Session Senate Bill 11, would, among other things, eliminate collective bargaining rights for most of the state's public-sector unions, in effect eviscerating the unions themselves.

[octoberlib]

7. This is awesome. I don't know how I missed it.

[murielm99]

5. They became famous during the protests against Walker's

union busting in Madison. They brought free pizza to the capitol. Then, people from all over the world started sending them money to buy pizza and feed the masses there.

I sent them money. I sent some money to another store known for their liberalism, the Willy Street Co-op. They sent water and other types of nutritious food. Protesters cannot live by pizza alone.

[BrotherIvan]

2. Don't be a shy Tory!

How true. How many selfish, self-serving pricks vote for conservatives because they think they will save a few bucks in taxes. Good on this guy for calling out these scumbags.

[narnian60]

6. Well said.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Conservatives used to strut and preen about themselves....

Now they act a tad more low key.

[47of74]

9. Some of them still do.

The Internet is full of examples.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. They don't DARE do it in person anymore.

[47of74]

11. True

Many of them are only strong behind the keyboards. Regular ol' members of the 69th Keyboard Warriors Battalion.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

12. I call them the 104th. That's the number of keys on a standard Windoze keyboard....

We can all thank Bill Gates for making it easy for a complete idiot to get online.