Forty-six MPs are urging Rishi Sunak to reconsider the Culture Department’s support for the Conscious Advertising Network, citing concerns about potential suppression of right-wing media and implications for free speech. The Sunday Times has more.
Rishi Sunak has been urged to intervene after the Culture Department backed a campaign that has been linked to a boycott of right-wing media outlets.
A group of 46 Conservative MPs have written to the Prime Minister after the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport suggested that the Conscious Advertising Network helped to protect “brand safety”.
Britain’s five biggest advertising agencies are among the network’s members and together make up 60% of U.K. advertising revenue.
In the letter the MPs, which include Liz Truss, the former Prime Minister, and Dame Priti Patel, the former Home Secretary, said that the five advertising agencies had boycotted GB News.
The network’s co-founders were members of Stop Funding Hate, a left-wing campaign group that encourages brands to boycott newspapers including the Daily Mail, the Sun and the Daily Express.
Despite its left-wing affiliations, the network’s campaign was praised in a Government consultation this year as having “a mission to protect brand safety through stopping advertising abuse and ensuring the supply chain uses good practice”.
Membership of the Conscious Advertising Network is growing, with nearly 200 brands already members, including Virgin Media and British Gas.
The MPs’ letter described the department’s links with the Conscious Advertising Network as “worrying” and compared the campaign’s boycotts with the ‘debanking’ scandal, in which politicians were refused bank accounts because of their views.
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Is this the same advertising world which regularly over represents coloured and mixed race families in TV advertisements?
Pedantic comment: scepticism of or regarding, not “towards”. Sorry.
So the government is happy with the bully-boy tactics of CAN. What a surprise.
These kind of spineless so called “representatives of the poeple” make my f-ing blood boil!
Jim Hacker was meant to represent the typical, spineless Tory MP but he did at least try to fight The Blob, and occasionally won.
How quickly would things change if all government advertising was pulled from CAN members?
Can’t we have some sort of truth-in-advertising which stop groups like Stop funding hate!
from using obviously misleading names for themselves to (try to) hide the actual focus of their activities? Would a betting outlet be allowed to advertise itself as Provider of financial services many people chose to trust?
Right wing?? so, a level headed, common sense, white british male human being like me is right wing am i?
If that’s what you progressive mp’s want to call 80% of your countries voters then,so be it! I’m a right wing racist! and I’ll vote accordingly!
Your apparent belief that level-headed, common-sense, white British men exist marks you obviously as fascist, ie, throroughly despicable opponent of the people who don’t who’s secretly itching to genocide transwomen by excluding them from women’s sport competitions or something likewise horrible, say, torture millions of people to death.
Do you know me?🤣🤣
“Good practice”??????????????????? So Cultural Marxism is good? All media must spout leftist progressive dogma to be classed as “Good”? When you only have one narrative you have tyranny. Conservative views are to be criminalised. If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives.
“If only 46 conservatives wrote to the prime Minister then the rest need to just admit they are no longer conservatives….”
….and Resign their seats.
It is circumstances like this that reveal beyond doubt what are the values of the Conservatives. The few who complained include some who did nothing when Ministers but the bulk of the Conservative Party sees no reason to object.
Left wingers are preferred to GB News, in their eyes.
However much this same small band of Tory MPs remonstrate with their Party on various issues they don’t make the slightest difference in the big state, leftwards drift of the Party.