Daily Mail Sales Banned On Virgin Trains - Take Two

[naomi24]

Virgin Trains to resume Daily Mail sales

Richard Branson says he was unaware of the move and the operator must never be seen to be "censoring" customers. Good news?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42687568

[mikey4444]

Considering how few copies were sold, I am not sure it makes any difference.

But I am against censorship, so I would support the Hairy Wonder in this case.

[ichkeria]

Yes me too.
It always seemed a daft thing to do.

[emmie]

ha ha, so someone got down off their high horse...

[emmie]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1588682.html

[Mamyalynne]

Seems a fair response from Richard - if the decision to drop it was indeed anything other than the fact it was a poor seller.

[emmie]

poor sales or no, it was seen by some to be a form of censorship. banning a paper because you don't like it.

[Jackdaw33]

Obviously poor sales was the reason in the first place but slagging off the paper with a load of psychobabble about not reflecting our core values made it look like censorship. If they were selling thousands of copies a day I don't think they would have been quite so precious.

[youngmafbog]

If you are in business any censoring is just plain daft, why on earth would you want to alienate any punter?

Sounds to me like they have a rogue idealistic employee.

[Togo]

//Sounds to me like they have a rogue idealistic employee. //

Yeah it's Branston. Got himself in a pickle with his luvvie stance. :))

[Kromovaracun]

I was indifferent to the original decision (I don't consider it "censorship" though).

The instant backtracking just makes it look like a pathetic farce.

[jno]

fine. I said all along they can sell whatever papers they want.

It's the "be seen to" that counts, of course; what they're actually doing is irrelevant.

[Gromit]

Probably the right decision.
The train operator did say that they sold very few copies, so it was all a fuss about nothing.

[anotheoldgit]

Just a case of Branston not expecting it to be a media outcry, that it had become.

[Islay]

What media outcry?

[Mamyalynne]

Well, it made for two threads on here and folk still can't get his name right Islay.

How much more outcry do we need.

Off to petition him to start selling the Auto Trader.

[Islay]

Lol mamya

[youngmafbog]

Nooooo, Mammy, that is the magazine of choice for males taking a long dump! Dont want that on a train with usually only half the lavvies working in the firdt place.

[Mamyalynne]

You trying to censor my choice??

[Jomlett]

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Virgin Trains confirms they will continue to sell papers that cause offence and outrage, or as they’re also known: tickets with train prices printed on them.