Tesco - "Enjoy The Taste Of Scotland" And Ignore England...

Another lovely view of Tesco enjoying the "Taste of Scotland" in Scotland.

Remember, as Tesco says on its own website:

Tesco is committed to ensuring that Scottish consumers have access to Scottish produce. Currently, over 100 Scottish companies supply more than 1,000 product lines to our stores. This amounts to around £800m of goods being sourced from Scottish companies – directly into the Scottish economy.

Consulting with our suppliers, we have worked to raise awareness of Scottish food and drink companies. As well as co-ordinating a number of events for Scottish suppliers and consumers, we have created new signage to be rolled out across our Scottish stores promoting Scottish products.

Another view of Tesco absolutely ignoring England and English produce in England.

"Celebrating Great British Food" - England Hating Tesco Continues To Suck Up To Scotland And Rams "British" Down English Throats...

In Scotland - Tesco's "Enjoy The Taste Of Scotland"...

In England - Tesco Says You Don't Exist!

Saw the placard above today in our local Tesco.

Yuck.

And what about the white lettering on the blue background?

And, as usual, Scottish saltires (white on a blue background, of course) glared at us from many other displays.

And this is interesting:

Tesco is committed to ensuring that Scottish consumers have access to Scottish produce. Currently, over 100 Scottish companies supply more than 1,000 product lines to our stores. This amounts to around £800m of goods being sourced from Scottish companies – directly into the Scottish economy.

Consulting with our suppliers, we have worked to raise awareness of Scottish food and drink companies. As well as co-ordinating a number of events for Scottish suppliers and consumers, we have created new signage to be rolled out across our Scottish stores promoting Scottish products.

Earlier this year Tesco hosted "Enjoy the Taste of Scotland", a three-day event run in conjunction with the Scottish Executive to promote Scottish suppliers. This pioneering event featured over 60 Scottish food and drink producers and offered attendees the opportunity to sample products from across the country including household names, such as Baxter’s, Tunnock’s and Mackie’s, and small speciality producers, such as Rannoch Smokery, Tilly Confectionery and Castle MacLellan.

As well as promoting Scottish produce to members of the public, Tesco also looks to build good working relationships with current suppliers and aims to provide opportunities for new suppliers to come on board. To this end, for the past two years we have run a Scottish supplier day, a practical day open to all our Scottish suppliers to help them gain a better understanding of retail operations and to assist them with technical issues.

We have also launched new Scottish lines, including a range of items which are produced and supplied locally to one or two of our stores, by businesses such as J & I Smith Bakers based in Huntly. This can lead to locally-supplied products then being rolled out across the UK, and brands such as Border Biscuits are testament to this. The success of this programme means we are now exporting some of these products to our stores abroad – further growth for Scottish companies.

At Tesco we take our commitment to Scottish producers and the communities they operate in very seriously, actively engaging with local and national stakeholders to this end. In February this year Tesco representatives gave evidence at the Scottish Parliament's Environment and Rural Affairs Committee's Food Chain Supply Inquiry and Tesco is a current member of the Agricultural Strategy Group, run by Ross Finnie MSP, Scottish Minister for Environment and Rural Development.

So, if it's good enough for Scotland, why not for England?

And, of course, Tesco is not alone. Check out Asda, the Co-op, and Sainsburys. All screeching "SCOTTISH!" all ignoring "ENGLISH".

We are second class customers.

The supermarkets wilfully discriminate against England.

And Tesco's is just about the worst of the lot.

Scotland - UK Supermarkets Agree To Bolster Anti-English Scots' Bigots

The Scotsman:

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Richard Lochhead today revealed eight major supermarkets have signed an agreement with the Scottish Government to help promote Scottish produce in their stores.

And he released figures showing a 21 per cent increase in demand for Scottish food products over the past two years, despite the economic downturn.

Mr Lochhead unveiled the new retailers' charter – signed by Aldi, Asda, the Co-op, Marks & Spencer, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose – as he published the Scottish Government's next steps in the first-ever national food and drink strategy.

Well, that's all fine and dandy. Great for English-hating Scots' bigots who can't bear to buy English, as well as people who simply see Scotland as a country alone, with no loyalty due elsewhere. Which it is not.

And I noticed recently that Sainsbury's and Tesco have changed the packaging on their sausages in England so that you can now buy such delights as "BRITISH Pork Licolnshire sausages".

And I've also heard that Tesco is intent on cleansing Englishness out of existence by renaming the (very) few English lines they have as "British" (more here).

There are indications that the major supermarkets have refused to brand English products as English to appease anti-English Scots' bigots. Read the CEP's findings here.

When it comes to our anti-English, Scots-biased supermarkets, we personally vote with our wallets and purses.

How about you?

A big kiss to the Witanagemot Club.

Scottish-Biased Tesco Comes Out Of The Closet...

With all the recent revelations about the attempts of Tesco supermarkets to ethnically cleanse the English and erase the country of England from the UK, it comes as no surprise that secret plans are afoot at Tesco to rebrand itself.

Tesco Bias - Scottish And Welsh Suppliers

Not only is Tesco determinedly anti-England/anti-English in refusing to label English produce as English or to use the English flag on labelling, it also favours Scottish and Welsh suppliers over English.

From the Tesco site:

Meet Our Suppliers - Regional Produce

East England: 9 suppliers

East Midlands: 2 suppliers

North East England: 1 supplier

Northern Ireland - 6 suppliers

North West England - 2 suppliers

South East England - 4 suppliers

South West England (includes "Cornish" bias): 6 suppliers

Wales: 14 suppliers

West Midlands: 2 suppliers

Yorkshire: 3 suppliers

Scotland: 25 suppliers

You have to delve into the regional list to reveal the facts, but tot it all up, work out the size and population of each country, and you will see that Tesco is spectacularly biased towards Scottish suppliers, with Wales a close second. England with a population of over 50 million has 29 suppliers. Scotland, with a population of around 5 million has 25 suppliers, Wales with a population of around 3 million has 14 suppliers.

Here's a few other interesting facts from the Tesco site (the emphasis are ours):

"In Scotland, over 1200 Scottish farmers supply Tesco with fresh quality beef."

"In Kent, we have worked with British strawberry growers to increase the quality and quantity of their strawberries and grow them for longer."

"Already we sell more than 500 Welsh products - for example, all milk sold in Welsh stores is Welsh and 1,361 Welsh farmers supply us with beef and lamb. And we are always working to bring new Welsh products into stores across Wales and the rest of the UK."

See, Welsh, Scottish, British - but no English. Gobbleydook as British means English, Scottish or Welsh - and solid evidence of the anti-English/anti-England organisation Tesco is.

Boycott Tesco. Start Today. Every Little Helps.

The British Retail Consortium - The Missing Link In England's Supermarkets' Anti-England Attitude?

You know what it's like. You've written to Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrison's, Asda, Marks and Spencer and the Co-op about their refusal to label English products as English, nonsensically labelling them "British" whilst excluding the Scots and Welsh from that by marking them with Scots and Welsh flags. You've signed petitions, you've screamed, you've been ignored.

All of the major supermarkets in England seem determined to ignore England's existence whilst merrily displaying Scots and Welsh flags on their product packaging and slogans like "Morrison's - Proud To Serve Scotland".

Lately, there has been some hope that Sainsbury's may be about to launch a few clearly flagged English lines, but Tesco has hardened its face against England, proclaiming that "English inhabitants" feel more British than English, and using this dubious finding as an even more dubious reason to delete those very few lines they do have that are marked "English".

Alfie discovered the facts, and Fair Flags ran the story, along with several other sites, including this one. Maria discovered an interesting comment in the Fair Flags comments thread, pointing at a possible factor for this anti-English attitude in supermarkets across England. It's an organisation called The British Retail Consortium. The comment states that Alistair Darling has a finger firmly stuck in this pie, and a little investigation by Maria has thrown up the fact that the Consortium has British, Brussels, Scottish (of course) and London departments, but no English department - nor yet a Welsh one - although the Welsh Assembly does have input, as does the Northern Ireland Office.

Is this the missing link - the organisation orchestrating our supermarkets' and English food producers' growing anti-England bias (think Dairy Crest)?

Because something certainly is.

Tesco's Hatred of England Approaches Its Peak...

Despite all our protestations, apparently Tesco "Customer Focus Groups" have decided that all English products must in future be marked "British" - whilst Scots and Welsh products continue to be marked as "Scots" and "Welsh". The "focus groups" stuff is all my eye and Betty Martin - there is obviously a great deal of feeling in England that English products should be labelled as... er... English. Kinda makes sense, doesn't it?

Tesco - your contempt for us is breathtaking!

Alfie on the blower to a trucculent Scot about anti-English labelling at Tesco:

“But we are changing it to make it more consistent”

“Well that’s bloody great!”

“Yes, in the very near future, our butter will be labelled as British butter – and of course we will keep the Union flag to make it all consistent”....

“WHAT?”...

Click on text to read the full story.

Cornwall Is Not A Country - But Anti-English Tesco Says It Is...

Cornwall is a county of England. Despite the racist cries of those fancying themselves as "pure blooded Celts" (no such thing) and others simply concerned that Cornwall should be independent, it is still a county of England. And should remain one until a referendum decides otherwise. Until the people have spoken.

We have friends born in Cornwall who firmly believe they are English and that Cornwall is an English county. But Tesco, rabidly anti-English, have decided to butter up the racist fantasy "Celtic" clique in Cornwall by slapping a Cornish flag on their "finest" range.

This makes no sense at all. Cornwall is not a nation. And county flags are missing from all other Tesco produce.

What on earth is Tesco playing at?

Read the whole tale at Waking Hereward.

Tesco Cafe - It's Scottish, It's British, It's UK - But It Sure Ain't English!

We did our supermarket watch today - on the menu was Tesco's and in the cafe we found just what we were looking for - another example of Tesco anti-English bias:

On the menu was:

Scottish Red Cheddar Macoroni Cheese

British Beef Steak, Ale and Mushroom Pie

UK Sourced Roasted Half Chicken

But nothing English, of course.

From the Scottish Government site:

Speaking at today's launch at Glamis Castle, Mr Lochhead said:

"Consumers are becoming increasingly interested in the provenance of what they buy. They want to know where their food comes from and they want to support local producers.

"Supermarkets recognise this increased demand for Scottish food. I know that one leading supermarket has increased sales of Scottish products in Scotland by 20 per cent and in the rest of the UK by 14 per cent in the last year.

But we can't help wondering how much these supermarkets, which absolutely refuse to recognise England, thus pandering to Scots and Welsh anti-English racists, are losing in revenue from their former English customers, who are now shopping elsewhere.

By the way, do try your local markets for cheap English produce. We've been very pleasantly surprised both by quality and prices.

Fair Flags Campaign

A dream come true - at last a blog dedicated to the issue of our supermarkets' outrageously unfair treatment of England.

Tesco, Sainsbury's, Co-op and Asda Scottish Bias - A Polish View

Asda - anti-English, Scottish exalting labelling - also at Tesco, Sainsbury's and the Co-op.

I was discussing the major supermarkets' anti-English bias with my Polish neighbour this morning. She creased her brow in puzzlement: "This makes me curious. Scottish labels and British labels? What are the Scots if they are not British? Where are they from?"

Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda And The Co-op Pander To Anti-English Racists In Scotland And Wales

We often fume over the anti-English packaging in our big three supermarkets, and the fact that such bias is shown towards the Scots and occasionally the Welsh. Well, Scilla Cullen, of the Campaign For An English Parliament, has been finding out why. Apparently, Asda, Tesco's, Sainsbury's and the Co-op won't label thing as "English" because anti-English Scots and Welsh bigots won't buy them. These are a tiny proportion of the population and should not be pandered to in any way shape or form. But, according to England's biggest supermarket chains, "English", "England" and the St George's flag must not appear on the packaging to appease racists.

This makes the supermarkets appear to be anti-English bigots themselves.

Don't buy Tesco, Asda, Co-op or Sainsbury's if you can avoid, and boycott their "proudly marked" Scots and Welsh produce if you do have to go in.

Racism is wrong.

The anti-England/English Scots and Welsh bulldozer currently devastating several key areas of our lives, not least our politics and rights as shoppers, must be stopped.

Read the CEP's findings here.

Tesco Update

Alfie The Awake has news of a brilliant development in the long running saga of Tesco The Anti-English.

And we can report several hits at this blog in the past couple of days (since our last Tesco blog post) from Cheshunt, Hertfordshire... which just so happens to be home to Tesco Head Office.

Keep up the pressure, folks, on Tesco's and Sainsbury's - remember Every Little Helps...

Don't Shop At Tesco If You Value England

On this blog, we have often been curious about why Tesco marks its Scotch produce with a saltire, the Scots flag, and its English produce with the Union flag - the flag of the United Kingdom. Well, John has some important information -

http://www.theenglandproject.net/wordpress/?p=437

We've seldom seen more of an anti-English attitude than that proudly displayed by Tesco.

Avoid.

Tips for Avoiding Shopping at Anti-English Tesco

You want to do your bit for England, you want to stop shopping at Tesco - the High Priest of Anti-English Supermarkets, but you can't be bothered.

It's so convenient...

You're not shopping there won't make a difference anyway...

Rubbish!

We must all send a clear message to Tesco - that we are not to be treated as second class citizens. We must demand clearly marked English produce in line with Scottish and Welsh Tesco produce. If Tesco are pandering to anti-English racists from Scotland and Wales, or if their board of directors is mainly comprised of the same, they must be taught a lesson.

We must thwack Tesco straight in the profit margin.

You CAN shop elsewhere.

A couple I know live in a village without a shop. They don't have a car and the local bus service is lousy. There is a Tesco on their doorstep. But they never shop there. How do they manage it? A few tips...

For frozen stuff...

Try somewhere like Iceland. Amazingly cheap, good quality, and a far larger range than Tesco. Excellent frozen vegetables. Small range of non-frozen products - like cheese, bread, salad ingredients. If you have a freezer, shop there once a month, save pounds, and watch the housekeeping allowance stretch.

For fresh veg, also look at local markets and greengrocers - English produce is clearly marked and is often cheaper - yes CHEAPER - than that sold in Tesco, and much of what my friends have bought strikes me as fresher. Things like peppers for stews and casseroles can be prepared and frozen at home - with less loss of nutrition than if they had been sat on a supermarket shelf/in your fridge.

Visit the market/greengrocer once or twice a week. The couple I know manage this without a car and both work full-time. If you have a car and/or don't work full-time, think how much easier it will be for you!

On a budget - economy products. If you depend on the big supermarkets "basic" ranges, then Sainsbury's is better than Tesco. Sainsbury's is also anti-English, but has not yet taken it as far as Tesco. Your "Basic" milk or beans will not be emblazoned with the dreaded Union Flag.

Voila - your changes in shopping habits will not have meant uncomfortable changes to your lifestyle, you will be eating fresher produce, saving money and never having to boost the local Anglo-phobic Tesco store's coffers with your hard earned dosh!

REMEMBER - ANYWHERE BUT TESCO!

Nice one!

UPDATE 4/8/2006

Grace tells us...

Even more important, if you don't run a car, Iceland run a free home delivery service. Great store - wins hands down for freezer food quality and its range of £1 products can't be beat!

I used to be a confirmed Tesco shopper. Thought I'd never beat the habit until they started doing away with the Cross of St George on English products and hyping the Saltire on Scotch products. That's racial discrimination, I decided, Tesco can get stuffed!

And I've never looked back.

UPDATE 8/12/2006

Simon in Manchester...

Came across this blog via a BBC thread - good for you.

We have various cancer treatment drugs which are not available in England, but ARE available on the NHS elsewhere in the UK.

We have non-representative MPs from Scots constituencies forcing legislation onto England;

We have England being broken up into regions - despite the North East, the only area allowed a referendum on the subject, voting NO massively, we still have unelected regional assemblies and their powers are growing.

We have Channel 4 making out that Englishness cannot exist without Nazi-style DNA tests (although apparently this does not apply to any other world ethnicities/nationalities).

We have farmers in England getting a worse deal than those in Scotland and Wales.

And, of course, we have Tesco refusing to recognise just one of the UK nations.

As soon as you say you are English, the PC crowd cry "Racist!" I believe that the English are downtrodden and are the most non-racist nation in the UK - and I have non-white friends who are as English as I am.

You're doing good here. It's all part of a much wider issue, and it needs highlighting.

This blog is supportive of the aims of the Campaign for an English Parliament, but is in no way connected.

Tesco - Backing Scottish and Welsh Anti-English Bigotry?

Alfie over at Waking Hereward has a fascinating theory about the reason for Tesco refusing to display the England flag on English produce. Is the supermarket giant simply pandering to anti-English bigots in Scotland and Wales? Does Tesco believe that products clearly marked with an English flag in Tesco stores in Scotland and Wales would not sell?

So, to conclude with my theory, the only reason Tesco do not have an English flag on their English produce is to solve their perceived belief that to do so would inflame the in-built bigoted beliefs of their Scottish and Welsh customers.

Read the full post here.

I wouldn't be at all surprised. After all, the UK Parliament goes so far as to sacrifice democratic rule in England to pander to the Scottish and Welsh. Like Tesco, it won't acknowledge England exists.

I have a suggestion...

If profits drop enough in England, Tesco may be forced to rethink its bigot-induced policy. So...

DON'T BUY AT TESCO!

The very idea of being faced with, and having to choose between, their "Scottish" or "British" goods makes me want to vomit...

COME ON, ENGLAND!

ANY STORE BUT TESCO!

UPDATE...

Greg from Cumbria...

I bet Tesco have carried out market research in Scotland and Wales and found that a lot of racist swine there won't buy products emblazoned with the English flag. I'd bet money on it!

What Tesco haven't bargained on are the affects of devolution and demands for fair play from England. Personally, I think that the flag concept is bloody pathetic anyway - the world is supposed to be binding closer together - and Tesco sticks pratty little flag motifs on everything! There's even an Italian flag on their pasta!

But if Tesco IS going to "go" with this idea, then England must not be discriminated against. The sight of that Scottish saltire has driven me from Tescos and I will not return until it is balanced by an equal display of St George's flags.

Want to lose a very large number of customers, Mr Tesco?

UPDATE 2 - 15/7/2006

ENGLISH DEMOCRATS ISSUE PRESS RELEASE...

Robin Tilbrook, Chairman of the English Democrats said that:- "Hundreds of our members have written to Tesco and received a similar reply. We argue that each response is a breach of the Race Relations Act which prohibits discrimination on the grounds of Nationality and under the Act each incident of discrimination gives rise to a claim of £8,000. I say that if enough English people claim the compensation they could be entitled to from Tesco, the English could easily turn Tesco’s over £2bn of profits to an over £2bn of loss for next year. We are calling for all volunteers to claim from Tesco and anyone interested in being helped make a claim should contact enquiries@englishdemocrats.or.uk, or write to:- PO Box 1066, Norwich, NR14 6ZJ. Tel: 01277 896000.

Get involved! Read the full story here.

UPDATE 3...

Oh come on, we musn't be churlish. Or "cynical". Or "un-British". Or "unpatriotic" - to quote recent comments by various NuLabour MPs. Let's be good little regions and tug our forelocks to our proud, historic masters in the proud, historic nations of Scotland and Wales.

Cor, how's that for sarcasm, Chris?!

Sarcasm? I didn't detect any, Darleen. Seems to me your e-mail is a straightforward account of what is expected of us by Tesco, the UK Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly, old Uncle Tom McCobbley and all.

Drew and Fiona:

Tesco did dip their toe in the English pond around the time of the first Cross of St George frenzy we believe (4+ years ago). We then bought some spuds with a St George's flag on. It was a short-lived experiment. Since then, we haven't seen any. The last time we visited a Tesco the displays of potatoes were dominated by bags marked with the Scottish flag (these were particularly prominent) and the Union Jack. Not an English-marked bag to be seen.

Needless to say, we'd simply visited the store for an update on the flag situation - not to make any purchases!

UPDATE 4...

Sue Campbell again...

There's also the fact that if Tescos treated England fairly and gave English shoppers the option of buying openly English produce, they might very well prefer it to the Scotch produce currently flooding Tescos stores in England. Tesco wouldn't want to cut Scottish food producers' profits, would it, even though it doesn't give a sh** about English?

This is all for the convenience of Little Scotlanders and Little Walesians - aka a bunch of anti-English racists.

This blog is supportive of the aims of the Campaign for an English Parliament, but is in no way connected.

TESCO HATES ENGLAND!

From the old CEP Cambs Blog...

The England Project highlights the continuing struggle to get Tesco to recognise England and afford English shoppers the same courtesy as that extended to shoppers in Scotland and Wales - produce clearly marked with the national flag. Tesco, whilst drawing the bulk of its profits from shoppers in England, prefer to ignore the country's existence, submerging it in the Union flag.

Below, is an old post from the CEP Cambs blog, run by Drew & Fiona, who locked horns with Tescos (and Sainsburys) several times.

The Tesco situation has resulted in some loss of custom for the store. At least six people I know no longer shop there. There must be others.

Spread the word - TESCO HATES ENGLAND! Sounds a bit tacky and OTT? Granted, but it appears to be true...

The struggle continues... Here's the old CEP Cambs post...

How can Tesco justify emblazoning their product packaging with a multitude of national flags, including the Scottish Saltire and the Welsh Dragon, but never the English Cross of St George?

We wrote to Tesco in Newmarket Road, Cambridge, last August and are still awaiting a reply. Mrs Scott wrote to Tesco in Yarrow Road, Cambridge, in December 2004 and received the reply featured above.

1) No English Produce - We source our ranges through the EU which enables us to get the best quality stock at the best prices.

"It seemed rather insulting to English farmers and manufacturers really," Mrs Scott told us. "It really is disloyal."

Mrs Wilson of Cambridge, commented: "Of course, they do supply English produce, they just won't label it as such - perhaps at the behest of the EU, but I'm sure that Tesco needn't obey dictates from there if it didn't want. The best quality produce you can buy is English and is available at your local markets, and at a much cheaper price than Tesco's in my experience!"

UPDATE...

Dave from Essex...

Something's absolutely rotten about Tesco's attitude. I reckon the store does hate England. There'll be a clique of bigoted Scots or PC English trendies at the root of this. We have a Tesco right on our doorstep, just perfect for us to use. But we wouldn't be seen dead in it whilst they see fit to discriminate against our country.

Sue Campbell...

Love the blunt heading, Chris! Right on - Tesco is a a git of a supermarket chain, anti-English to the max!

Wotcha, Sue. Yeah, the heading is a bit strident, isn't it? I just feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall at times - and it makes me want to shout loud!

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