Virgin Trains To Stop The Daily Mail On Their Passenger Service

[emmie]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42621425

[Togo]

Just creepy Bransons fit of pique after The Mail rightly criticised the bail out of Virgin East using taxpayer's money. This of course is the sort of "business model" that our Marxist hob goblins love. After all how much different is it to their plans for Nationalisation? Perhaps the Mail will set a pack of nerwshounds on his trail to flush out any misbehaviour that is in step with all the other creepy self centered offenders. He reminds me, more and more, of Jimmy Saville as time passes. A true weird the beard.

[Old_Geezer]

It's not a million miles away from saying that a landlord is allowed to rent to the tenents they wish so they are allowed to say, "No Irish", or a bakery refusing to put two groom figures on a cake. This, "can sell what they like", argument only goes so far.

[Old_Geezer]

Criticism of paying public money to a private company's profit margin is fair comment. If this is true then the private company has failed and the business should be bought back at a failed business price by the public. Either the private sector can provide goods/services at aa reasonable price, or the business should be taken over by government.

[Old_Geezer]

...A REASONABLE...

[ichkeria]

I think it's a silly gesture by Virgin, much as I detest the Daily Mail.

[murraymints]

Richard Branson is so up himself !

[Togo]

Here's a though.....the three "newspapers that will be on sale on Vegan Drains are The Mirror, The Times, and The Financial Times. Three staunchly Remoan Publications. Just like the self serving Branson himself.

[emmie]

its still a paper read by millions, whether you detest it or not, I used to read it long ago, but now i just content myself with news online.

[dannyk13]

I don't see what the 'mail bashers' have to complain about.99% of the paper reports the news as other papers do.

[ichkeria]

The Times tho does have quite a few columnists who are staunchly pro-Leave, if you want to go down that road. And it doesn't splash xenophobic front page stories every other day.
Still a bit daft to ban the Mail though.
Maybe Virgin will carry the pro-Remain Mail on Sunday one day a week.

[emmie]

danny
it does, but Branson is determined not to have it on his trains, whether they sell one copy or loads...

[dannyk13]

Emmie, by post was querying the view of many on here regarding the Mail'

[jno]

hardly a gesture, ichkeria, if Virgin only sell three papers, down from four. It's much the same when you get on a plane - I've never been offered a choice of more than three papers, and often none at all. So they're offering one tabloid, one serious paper that's also a tabloid, and one business broadsheet (the latter possibly targeted at 1st class passengers who have a bit more room to open broadsheets).

They say nobody was buying it anyway, so why sell it?

[murraymints]

I like the Mail..whyever not ? news is news and any political leanings are of no interest to me..can't change the news..and I like the puzzle pull out !

[jno]

why do people keep talking about Branson? Has he said one word on the subject?

[Togo]

Perhaps the Mail will run a campaign to boycott Vegan Drains, or begin to highlight any "anomalies" that they actively seek out. Be some squawking from Branson then I bet. :))

[murraymints]

jno..Virgin IS his business ...his directive ?

[Togo]

//why do people keep talking about Branson? Has he said one word on the subject? //

I thought that here on AB that was definite confirmation of support and complicity. :))

[ichkeria]

I think if they had only mentioned the "no one was buying it" reason and hadn't started pontificating about their "values" I would have said fair enough.

[murraymints]

buy it in the station shop, can hardly divest you of it on board !