Ethical Shoppers in not that ethical shocker

[ukwill]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/re...

Or, Guardian readership are hypocrites shocker.

[Guybrush]

Yikes. The revelations are coming out now; next we'll hear that socialists tend to be hypocrites.

[mattviatura]

I thoroughly resent the hijacking of the word 'ethical' and the attendant inference that those who choose not to subscribe to whatever BBC or Guardian balls du jour is being peddled are somehow devoid of ethics.

[chris watton]

mattviatura said:

I thoroughly resent the hijacking of the word 'ethical' and the attendant inference that those who choose not to subscribe to whatever BBC or Guardian balls du jour is being peddled are somehow devoid of ethics.

..And the word ‘progressive’, as in the non-existent ‘progressive Majority’ oft used by the hopelessly deluded.

I wonder if the same group think that wind farms and other 'Green Energy solutions' are 'Ethical', in light of the increasing numbers of our own poor and vulnerable descending into abject fuel poverty.

[mattviatura]

chris watton said:

..And the word ‘progressive’, as in the non-existent ‘progressive Majority’ oft used by the hopelessly deluded.

Yep. You've got me thinking now, what other Tony Blair vocabulary was there?

Stakeholder is one that springs to mind.

[ChrisW_77]

mattviatura said:

Yep. You've got me thinking now, what other Tony Blair vocabulary was there?

Stakeholder is one that springs to mind.

"Hard working families"

[ewenm]

ChrisW_77 said:

mattviatura said:

Yep. You've got me thinking now, what other Tony Blair vocabulary was there?

Stakeholder is one that springs to mind.

"Hard working families"

Cross-party use of "fair" and "fairness" without defining what they mean. Usually it appears to mean "whatever is likely to win me more votes next time".

Anyway, wandering O/T, back to "ethical shoppers" - did we really need a report to tell us that people overstate their "good" behaviour and understate their "bad" behaviour when questioned? No st Sherlock

[Sticks.]

A survey of 8,000 Australian shoppers. Wonder what was in their shopping basket

[Esseesse]

ChrisW_77 said:

"Hard working families"

We should define the true meaning of these phrases.

Progressive Majority -> Hopelessly Deluded Majority
Hard Working Families -> People who see themselves as entitled to more because they chose to have kids.

[mattviatura]

Esseesse said:

We should define the true meaning of these phrases.

This is a great idea, a dictionary.

Schools'n'hospitals : Public Sector non-job expansion (aka waste).

[Jasandjules]

mattviatura said:

I thoroughly resent the hijacking of the word 'ethical' and the attendant inference that those who choose not to subscribe to whatever BBC or Guardian balls du jour is being peddled are somehow devoid of ethics.

That's nothing on how much I resent how "Environmentally friendly" means not creating CO2. Don't worry about about destroying rainforests, pesticides, bleach, wiping out animal species etc...