Is the high street cosmetic chain (i.e., sellers of posh soap) Lush currently operating an illegal recruitment and employment scheme? Whereby only persons who hold Left-wing viewpoints on matters of gender are allowed to work for it, in likely contravention of the Equalities Act 2010 following the famous Maya Forstater ruling to this effect. I have no direct insider evidence of this, but a recent in-store promotional campaign aimed at promoting transgenderism to customers – even to little girls holding a birthday ‘pamper-party’ there – has led me to idly wonder.
If you were dirty or unwashed enough to have entered into a Lush store in the UK or Ireland during late April or early May, then you will have been unable to avoid highly transphilic poster displays in the windows which looked like these:
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Quite disgusting. But then that’s true of their products as well.
Quite agree. Walking past their shop in Bournemouth, as I regularly used to do when working nearby, the most revolting artificial smell would emanate from the front door. On that basis alone I wouldn’t buy anything from them.
I’ll stay dirty and avoid their ideological claptrap thank you.
I agree, the smell unbearable.
Occasionally when I go past their shops, that artificial perfume aroma turns my stomach.
Go woke, go broke.
Lush are anti police:
‘Lush’s ‘anti-cops’ advertising campaign that accuses officers of being “paid to lie” and “spying” on innocent people.’
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-am-indeed-paid-lie-12648399
Pro animal cruelty:
‘Lush teamed with TeamFox in the united goal to back the continued ban of fox hunting’ so shooting foxes is the only method of protecting young lambs from fox predation. Shot and wounded foxes are left to die in thick cover because the hunting act imposes a two dog follow up hunting limit, useless in thick cover.
And their products are sh*te
‘1.The jelly bombs. All of them. They never dissolved correctly and the gel would stick everywhere. The texture was disgusting. As an added bonus, the turtles literally had agar agar bits in them that looked like literal plastic and took forever to dissolve as well.
2.Naked shower gels…. you mean soap? Especially during the first release in Christmas of 2017, these were awful. They dried up super fast and were literally the same exact texture and feel as soaps. They were awkward to hold in the shower and would slip and slide everywhere. They were not good.
3.Dark Angels face cleanser I feel like they changed the normal or something, but dark angels always would stain my skin black with the amount of charcoal in there. I remember earlier in my lush fandom times that it wouldn’t stain.
4.Brazened Honey face mask. Texture is awful and the mask smelled like throw up. Do I need to say more?’
I thought Lush gave money to animal rights extremists who would then harass people.
Much to the embarrassment of my daughter I had a big row with the manager of our local Lush store once when shopping for Christmas presents.
Their instore promotion was all about ‘locally’ sourced stuff. I asked where the stuff was from, they were reluctant to tell me. Eventually they confessed it came from Poole. Poole I explained was hardly local, “that depends on your definition of local” said the manager. Poole is a 4 hour drive away. He then said that they considered anything that wasn’t from overseas was local.
I haven’t been back.
Lush bath bombs produce lots of carbon dioxide!
That shop stinks, you can smell it half way down the street. I don’t know how people can work there. I’d have a migraine after half an hour due to the assault on my olfactory senses, the smells being so overwhelming. I suppose some people are more sensitive than others to these things, though.
I’m the same. More than a few minutes in Lush and I would have a throbbing headache and nausea.
As I’ve said before I think on balance things like the Equality Act and its predecessors should be repealed. Trying to legislate for human behaviour of this kind will end badly. I think that should be the focus, rather than adding to the endless list of “protected characteristics”.
Lush if anyone has ever had the misfortune to pass one of its stores smells like the orange and lemon slice bowl left overnight in a pub and which has gone rank. The colour of the products as eye burning neon lime, orange, and red etc, most of the products are shaped like the off fruit it smells of. The store is one which attracts children and young girls, its mostly girls that shop there. In other words the store is part of the indoctrination of the young female to accept that she is a nothing, because anyone with a penis can put on a dress and say they are the same as she is, thus conditioning her to eradicate herself.
Whilst smelling like an off piece of fruit.
That reminds me of back in the ’90s when me and my friends would go into The Body Shop and try on all the testers. Discontinued classics such as Fuzzy Peach and Dewberry would be generously applied. We thought it was great. Same when we’d go into the big Boots in town and apply so many posh perfumes we’d come out smelling like a whore’s handbag. I can’t stand these overpowering aromas anymore, being a very ‘less is more’ type of person these days.
It is a stirring article… but in the interests of Free Speech there should be no censure – as long as no laws are being broken.
Of course there may be consequences – I expect many people will choose not to buy at Lush. I don’t.
With open borders I suspect their crappy cosmetics business would soon disappear.
One reason why I NEVER buy anything in Lush.
The other is I can’t stand their far-too-highly perfumed, overpriced rubbish.
Why shouldn’t a private corporation be allowed to discriminate and employ the people they want? If I applied for a job as a rabbi at a synagogue, would it be discrimination if I was turned away because I wasn’t actually Jewish? No. Absolutely not. Let them go ahead and build this precedent.
I generally agree that the right to freely associate for private individuals and firms trumps everything else, though I think this does cause problems for free speech when your employer fires you for your social media posts- I am a bit torn on this
I largely agree – after all, what employer doesn’t tend to employ people who they think they will get on with, who share their values and will gel with the rest of the team? It would also be impossible to police such a law without companies having to develop ridiculous targets for employing x% of left wing people vs y% of right wing people, much like we now have targets for the employment of different “minorities”. And who decides whether you’re left wing or right wing – you, the employer or the law?
What should be illegal, however, is to victimise or sack an existing employee based on their political or religious views (I’m thinking now of the Christian nurse in the news lately, demoted for calling a trans “woman” sir).
In the case of the nurse this is different because she was employed by the NHS which is a government entity and is thus supposed to be neutral. But if the flat earth society employs a secretary who then uses her position to proclaim the earth is round, and continues to do so after being cautioned, then she is damaging her employer’s position and is not a good fit for that position. Whether she is factually right or wrong is irrelevant in this situation.
Yeah I do get your point, I think we’re essentially saying the same thing from a slightly different angle!
They are free to employ whomever they choose.
I am free to think that they are corporate ar$ehole$ who don’t care about the rights of women. I am also free to not give them a penny, ever.
Makes me think of my current siduation. I am shortly going to buy a house with my girlfriend, each of us selling our respective houses to do so. I haven’t had a tv licence for years, and she knows this and doesn’t say anything about it. She does have a tv licence because she loves the BBC dramas, and she wants to keep it. The money for this will *not* be coming from the joint account. They will never get another penny from me, ever.
One of the best ways to fight woke is with your money. Don’t give them any.
Lush is American for alcoholic so it is quite appropriate that their products smell like vomit and day old soiled trousers.
Refuse to shop there. They back a lot of animal rights charities too, such as the League Against Cruel Sports.
I am also not going to shop at Meandem any more.
These people….
Never been in one of their shops