Tesco Is Criticised For Vaccine Propaganda In Christmas Ad

So-called anti-vaxxers have taken to social media to call for a boycott of supermarket giant Tesco in protest at the company’s Christmas ad. In the ad, Santa’s Christmas present delivery is threatened by covid quarantines.

However, Santa flashes a vaccine passport to a border guard, showing that he has been double-jabbed and everyone lives happily ever after.

Activists have launched a #BoycottTesco campaign on Twitter in response to the ad.

According to The Independent:

One woman from Loughton commented underneath the ad – posted to the official Tesco Twitter account – saying: “This is absolutely sick. Jab passports and quarantine are not jokes. Leave it out of Christmas please.”

The supermarket giant made its position clear, though, when it responded to her message directly, saying only: “This Christmas, #NothingsStoppingUs.”

Some of the responses were more dramatic, with one man posting a picture of his Tesco Clubcard – through which the supermarket’s rewards system operates – cut up into three pieces. “Nope,” he wrote alongside the image. “I spend £500+ a month with yourselves. Not anymore though. #BoycottTesco.”

One woman, who describes herself as a “proud anti-C19 vaxxer” on her Twitter profile, asked: “Did I really just see a Christmas TV ad on ITV for Tesco to Queen’s “Don’t Stop me Now” hit with families having fun / flying abroad etc & then a guy flashing up his smart phone with a Covid passport on it??”

The propaganda is hardly surprising. The UK’s daily soaps are full of pro-vaccine and pro-facemask wearing sub-plots. EastEnders is particularly egregious in this respect, not that I watch it…ahem.

Vaccine passports, jabs for jobs, jabs for travel, jabs for unemployment benefits, mask wearing, protect the NHS and all that jazz, is to be the norm. The Tesco ad is merely another slice of propaganda.

Here in Salford there are pro-vaccine messages on billboards, on bus shelters, on the sides of buses, in shop windows, in the post offices and in the banks. It’s in the newspapers. When you get home, it’s on your TV and radio. It’s death by a thousand cuts.

It’s hardly new. Nonetheless, it’s fiendishly clever.

 

 

5 3 votes
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
33 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
PodCast
Listen LIVE!

The Richie Allen Radio Show is live Mon – Thurs  5-7pm and Sun 11am -12pm

Click the button to listen live. Stream opens in a new tab.

Support

Support the show!

The Richie Allen Show relies on the support of the listeners.  Click the button to learn more.
33
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x

The Richie Allen Show relies on the support of the listeners. Help Richie to keep producing the show and talking about that which the mainstream media won’t. Please consider a contribution or becoming a Patron, it’s greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Halifax Manchester SORT CODE 11-05-16 ACC No 12130860

New Report

Close