Co-Operative Supermarkets - Good With Food, Flying The Scottish Flag And Hating England...

Ooh, the Co-op! Another anti-English bunch of supermarket bigots!

Waking Hereward reports on their latest TV ad - in which the Saltire and the word "Scottish" is used to describe some burgers, but no word at all and the Union Flag is used for English sausages.

For the "great British barbecue", of course!

Humph!

Read all about it and see the ad by popping over to Waking Hereward.

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.

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.

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.

"It's All At The CO-OP Now!" - Scottish, Welsh, British But Not English

Today we trundled down to our local Co-operative supermarket, the dear old CO-OP, to check out the situation regarding flags on packaging. We found the Scots flag on some meat and fish products.

We found the Welsh flag on some meat products.

We found the British flag on a variety of products - including English meat products.

But we found no trace of an English flag.

"British" = English, Scottish and Welsh. The Co-op is yet another supermarket which sees fit to recognise Scotland and Wales but totally ignore England.

UPDATE: "Cornubian" has written to say that Cornwall is also excluded from the national flags on the packaging at the Co-op. Interesting point, although personally, until there has been a referendum on the subject and the people have actually voted for independence for Cornwall, I do not believe that Cornish produce should carry the "Cornish" flag - unless it is coupled with an English one. Being half-Scot myself, I have grave concerns about the whole exclusive "Celtic" thing which is so much a part of Cornish nationalism.

I have written on this subject here and here.