Reform MP Sarah Pochin has apologised for any offence caused after saying “it drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people”. She said her comments were “phrased poorly” but insisted that many adverts are “unrepresentative of British society”.
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Watch the movie Forbidden Planet it's a classic 🍿
If adverts were all cartoon characters. Like a doll and a toy crocodile people will be more happy. Or maybe not
I thought we were over run by immigrants based on that I guess they do represent the ppl
Ferrari seemed to be reminiscing with nostalgia when she mentioned all those shows 😂
What Sarah Pochin is inadvertently advocating for is perfect representation. Maybe ask her when Reform will publish their employment equity plan to make sure all employers make sure their employment practices reflect perfect representation.
Only Mr Toad can justify racism and tell a person of colour not to use (in context) historic racial stereotypes in one sentence.
People serm to forget these adverts are produced by Advertising Agencies who usually do tests on groups of people to and use psychologically to get you to buy these items. If it didn't work they would be unemployed . The advert is put the the company and they make the final decision. If they are happy and it works, is it fir her to whinge!
Yet there is a South Asian in Reform. Useless Brexiteers.
When your paying your utility bills or shopping in the supermarket Reform voters aren't thinking about inflation, oh no they are thinking about diversity and how many times they can say woke in a day. Cos Nigel tells them it's important. Daft as brushes.
It's the colonial residual of exceptionalist arrogance!
She need a chocolate touch 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂and she won’t go back 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If skin color bothers you, close your eyes.
I’m of an age when I’ve overheard white people remark about on being examined by black physicians. Jeeze we’re def going backwards
Ha-ha! What happened to British education?!
For decades and decades we feel the same about white people. Now get some
I don't get why there are not more Chinese or Asian of that colour.
I think somewhere around 1 in 6 people on earth are of that persuasin.
Also, not enough people in wheelchairs or with gross disfigurement on adverts for stuff like sugar pops, and why do we not see more waitrose ads with folk with stoma bags?
In Nigeria its ILLEGAl to use white people in advertising! Think about that.
Im proud to be white
James' final point at the end is the real bottom line in terms of who we see on TV: The last hurdle to jump will be homeliness representation in the industry. Colin Farrell gets to play the Penguin, but Danny DeVito doesn't get to play the hotshot leading man.
she eats their food and takes holidays in foreign countries and wears clothes made by immigrants and drives a foreign motor 😂
Of course they're unreprasentative of UK society … but if advertising was based strictly on population demographics there would hardly be any POC on the ads …. and honestly … does anyone even watch tv anymore? Read a book …
Why do we have Americans doing voice overs in ads. Kevin Bacon is everywhere.
If British companies want Black or Asian viewers to buy their products, then they better have these races in their adverts!
If people don't like it then Black amd Asians should stop buying British products shown on TV that don't show every demographic and they shouldn't pay the BBC license either!
People really believe these people are real callers 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nick gets the radio gaslighter of 2025, let's hope in 2026 he retires
What about diversity in Muslim countries , like let's have Christians in power positions in their governments , mayors , head of their police forces , etc
Totally agree! too many full stop
I can't get a advantage because I am white.
There are south American people as well not just black and Asian
Sarah is correct
I boycott any company that obviously uses DEI to advertise themselves
Ads with blacks aren’t showing reality. Like an ad shows a black man saving a woman from a predator white guy trying to kidnap her or harassed her, which is the exact opposite that happens every day all day everywhere
I am Asian , and why all ads started with Black people ? I feel like I live in south Africa or other Africa continent .
Drives me mad that last election reform won 14% of the nations vote but gets 86% of media time including the BBC because they say provocative enraging things- the representation of mixed races in the media is perhaps making up for the lack of recognition in the past from ads to sitcoms to make up products
4% of uk population is black2.4 million people in contrast white English people who have homes in Italy – 6 million, the local tv does advertise Walls sausages so there ya go- like to see less of reform please