Small price to pay to support our troops (From Daily Echo)

Cant believe the following shops in SOUTHAMPTON will not support the 17 Port and Maritime Regiment’s homecoming parade this Thursday, i feel we should all shop the shops the same support, and NOT SHOP WITH THEM!

Company policies or not, Im not pro war, but my family and friends have been out their putting their lives on the line by order of the government, the least anyone can do is show them some respect or would they rather they all signed off and went on benefits. .....
Sorry but I am steaming about it, if they wont support them then they should stand in front of them in the conflicts of war and see how brave they feel then!!!

This is not the same as advertising external companies material, hardly a flyer making the public aware of a DJ's attendance at Junk or the like, its about gaining as much publicity as possible about an event which will demonstrate support for returning service personnel, not support for the war Oxfam but for those SENT there, those shops should be ashamed of themselves and the public should let them know that in a very passive but effective way as the poster above suggests.

pigglewit, hythe i agree with you a bit. it is not there fault that the government sent them there, just because the usa wanted a war, and this government got fooled in sending troops there.
but remember those people joined the arm forces voluntary, they are not conscript, so they joined with the full knowledge and eyes wide open that they will kill and be killed, its part of the damagers of the job, but saying that they got my support even lo it is an illegal war. and personal my self i would with draw them to the borders of pakistan, and search all those that go into and out of afghanistan.
its dangerous for the uk to get involved with the usa, because they will send troops in to a country if they dont approve what type of government they have, or if that government will not support the usa, ie like what happening in burma the government there is a usa back government, but at the last elections the burma usa back government lost the elections and the socialist won it with a major over all majority. but the burma government will not hand over power to the socialist and have the full support of the usa government in not handing over power.

pigglewit wrote:
Cant believe the following shops in SOUTHAMPTON will not support the 17 Port and Maritime Regiment’s homecoming parade this Thursday, i feel we should all shop the shops the same support, and NOT SHOP WITH THEM!

Company policies or not, Im not pro war, but my family and friends have been out their putting their lives on the line by order of the government, the least anyone can do is show them some respect or would they rather they all signed off and went on benefits. .....
Sorry but I am steaming about it, if they wont support them then they should stand in front of them in the conflicts of war and see how brave they feel then!!!

Sorry I don't agree, although it's fine to advertise it, I don't think shops not willing to participate in the 'advertising' should be slated. This is a FREE country and Oxfam's stance is particularly fair in that they want to remain impartial, particularly because of their work in war torn countries. I find it rather annoying that the Echo have engineered this story. It doesn't make a shop good or bad because they won't display an Echo poster about the parade. It doesn't mean the rest of us cannot celebrate or watch the parade and it's been given loads of publicity and quite rightly :). The posters are actually advertising the Echo as well, with it's logo emblazoned right across it so they get something out of it as well... that may well contravene some of these rules, not the actual 'march' itself....

southy wrote:
pigglewit, hythe i agree with you a bit. it is not there fault that the government sent them there, just because the usa wanted a war, and this government got fooled in sending troops there.
but remember those people joined the arm forces voluntary, they are not conscript, so they joined with the full knowledge and eyes wide open that they will kill and be killed, its part of the damagers of the job, but saying that they got my support even lo it is an illegal war. and personal my self i would with draw them to the borders of pakistan, and search all those that go into and out of afghanistan.
its dangerous for the uk to get involved with the usa, because they will send troops in to a country if they dont approve what type of government they have, or if that government will not support the usa, ie like what happening in burma the government there is a usa back government, but at the last elections the burma usa back government lost the elections and the socialist won it with a major over all majority. but the burma government will not hand over power to the socialist and have the full support of the usa government in not handing over power.

Southy, what the he** has that bunch of complete drivel to do with a parade through Southampton ? Have to give you credit though for not blaming Thatcher for this, or is that yet to come ?

Good post fmg2, I was beginning to agree with the posts that condemned those that wouldn't put up posters, but when you pointed out the Echo logo emblazoned right across the poster, it made sound reasoning. Now, if the Echo were to produce posters without their logo......, sorry, I was drifting there for a minute, just like southy ! :o)

B. L., Springfield go back and read it all, the only times that countrys should interfer with other countrys should be when genocide is taken place, like it was in iraq, or an act of war and that should be it. has afghanistan has not done either to us till after we invaded there country we the uk done the first act of war for no reason than the usa say so. whitch makes it an illegal war, but the problem is now, we are there and we need to find away to with draw all uk troops from that area in the safest possable mannor for all.

Forget the politics forget your views on Afganistan these are men and woment willing to put there lives on the line for you and me. These are the men and women that make it possible for corperate entities to trade to make their profit they have and are willing to again put their lives down in this "free" society we live in.
To not show a small piece of support is atrocious and we should show our discust with our feet.

southy wrote:
B. L., Springfield go back and read it all, the only times that countrys should interfer with other countrys should be when genocide is taken place, like it was in iraq, or an act of war and that should be it. has afghanistan has not done either to us till after we invaded there country we the uk done the first act of war for no reason than the usa say so. whitch makes it an illegal war, but the problem is now, we are there and we need to find away to with draw all uk troops from that area in the safest possable mannor for all.

Southy, I already did read your post as I prefer to try and keep my feet out of my mouth before posting.

1. The article is about troops parading through Southampton. YOU go back and READ the article before commenting.

2. I posted in response to your drivel on involvement in wars, which the article was NOT about.

3. Your response to me was the same drivel, which the article was NOT about.

4. Do you have shoe polish on your dentures ?
Please read the article before coming back with some whirling dervish posting. :o)

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

pigglewit wrote:
Cant believe the following shops in SOUTHAMPTON will not support the 17 Port and Maritime Regiment’s homecoming parade this Thursday, i feel we should all shop the shops the same support, and NOT SHOP WITH THEM!

Company policies or not, Im not pro war, but my family and friends have been out their putting their lives on the line by order of the government, the least anyone can do is show them some respect or would they rather they all signed off and went on benefits. .....
Sorry but I am steaming about it, if they wont support them then they should stand in front of them in the conflicts of war and see how brave they feel then!!!

Sorry I don't agree, although it's fine to advertise it, I don't think shops not willing to participate in the 'advertising' should be slated. This is a FREE country and Oxfam's stance is particularly fair in that they want to remain impartial, particularly because of their work in war torn countries. I find it rather annoying that the Echo have engineered this story. It doesn't make a shop good or bad because they won't display an Echo poster about the parade. It doesn't mean the rest of us cannot celebrate or watch the parade and it's been given loads of publicity and quite rightly :). The posters are actually advertising the Echo as well, with it's logo emblazoned right across it so they get something out of it as well... that may well contravene some of these rules, not the actual 'march' itself....

Agree entirely with you freemantlegirl2. I think it is disgusting for the Daily Echo to say that, by not displaying a poster advertising the Echo, the shops do not support our troops. The Echo is hijacking the homecoming parade for it's own publicity purposes.

Bowmore wrote:

freemantlegirl2 wrote:

pigglewit wrote: Cant believe the following shops in SOUTHAMPTON will not support the 17 Port and Maritime Regiment’s homecoming parade this Thursday, i feel we should all shop the shops the same support, and NOT SHOP WITH THEM! Company policies or not, Im not pro war, but my family and friends have been out their putting their lives on the line by order of the government, the least anyone can do is show them some respect or would they rather they all signed off and went on benefits. ..... Sorry but I am steaming about it, if they wont support them then they should stand in front of them in the conflicts of war and see how brave they feel then!!!

Sorry I don't agree, although it's fine to advertise it, I don't think shops not willing to participate in the 'advertising' should be slated. This is a FREE country and Oxfam's stance is particularly fair in that they want to remain impartial, particularly because of their work in war torn countries. I find it rather annoying that the Echo have engineered this story. It doesn't make a shop good or bad because they won't display an Echo poster about the parade. It doesn't mean the rest of us cannot celebrate or watch the parade and it's been given loads of publicity and quite rightly :). The posters are actually advertising the Echo as well, with it's logo emblazoned right across it so they get something out of it as well... that may well contravene some of these rules, not the actual 'march' itself....

Agree entirely with you freemantlegirl2. I think it is disgusting for the Daily Echo to say that, by not displaying a poster advertising the Echo, the shops do not support our troops. The Echo is hijacking the homecoming parade for it's own publicity purposes.

Agree, agree! Freemantlegirl and Bowmore - you have it right on the head there...

Why should the local businesses in Southampton want to promote the Southern Daily Echo for free?

I saw one of the posters, It's not about the regiment's homecoming - it's about putting their branding in every shop windown in the city centre! The Echo should ber ashamed of themselves by slating these organisation in this manner - it is disgraceful!

Now if they would have designed a poste without any branding - that may be a different matter.. but still - holding the city centre traders at the mercy of the Echo is a deplorable tactic!

I've walked along the highstreet this morning... there are a number of shops displaying union flags outside - I think this is far more patriotic and in future perhaps the Echo would like to instead provide un-branded bunting and flags for everyone to use - a far more reputable thing to do than this name and shame campaign of theirs!

The shops named above should complain to the Press Complaints Comission for slandering their names!

No comment from southy I see ! Wonder why. :o)