John Lewis has been suffering from incredible stupidity for a very long time. We all know that the vast majority of its Customer Service is handled by 3rd party providers. 1 of those providers deliberately cocks up the service so badly that when a customer calls up again they get passed to the other provider who then has to pay out for breaches of contract and unlawful behaviour, leaving literal millions up for grabs. So because the first provider isn't the one actually handing money out, they aren't seen as the bad ones. No one has the guts to sort it out, because John Lewis doesn't have the willpower to return call handling to their actual head office - but they are willing to take Financial Services off the providers when someone (artCeptual) reports a serious breach in the Financial Conduct Authority's rule about getting unqualified people to sell finance... The agents keep getting the short end of the stick with their pay, working hours, work restrictions like being able to visit the loo (they have 2mins, and it can take 2mins just to get to the loo), and unrealistic targets. No one cares. No one in leadership is able to do the work they need to do, and then there's this weird watershed where the Senior Managers are busting their arses to get their Managers and SMEs do to their jobs, the Site Directors come up with dumbass 'activities' for the agents to do which just means they get to fiddle the hours to request more money from the client (JL), which artificially buggers how long you wait on the phone to speak to someone. This goes all the way up the line to some boardroom where they say, "Oh, you know what would be nice? How about an advert with no sign of any men!" FORGETTING THAT THE STORE IS LITERALLY CALLED JOHN!
Not splitting just not vote for them there is no policies only farage spouting his rubbish, he does not say anything good in this country ,does not do his day job, only where he gets paid and gets air time,
Boots have just lost me as a customer, as if their prices shouldn’t have put me off before their crazy advert. And yes Reform had my vote, and will again in 2029.
When I were a lad ;) my parents waited until my sister and I had broken up from school and on the 20th Dec we'd go get a tree and as a family put it up together. My, how times have changed :(
Sorry Dan normally agree with you but growth won’t happen now or in 6 months or 12 months Starmer is screwed Trump will sort him and Reeves I wouldn’t let her run a bath
Why is it everything and company has to have an agenda?? I'm sick to the back teeth of companies promoting an agenda in adverts. Stick to selling a product and keep your beak out of trying to promote an ideology! Simples!!
I know of a person who who owns his own house, works one day a week(apparently self employed) and gets universal credit and all his bills paid including mortgage payments . He has just had a free central heating system installed and solar panels fitted using an eco grant. four years ago he got £50k extension on a grant... His next door neighbour who collects a state pension and is really struggling to make ends meet is NOT allowed any such GRANT and really struggles to survive. How is this happening how is this fair? He has is also become director of a charity with other directors living the same life style. It seems like a huge scam to me.
Maybe he should get a grant for his neighbor to stay warm this winter, instead of been feckless and thinking of himself amazing how these people know how to scam the system, and ordinary joe public like us have to fight for everything 🤬🤬😡
A lot of people get "in work" benefits because so many employers will now only offer part time hours. It's hard to get full time employment and when you do it's usually on minimum wage.
It's not just Trump who's against the Chagos debacle, it's pretty much all of the Republicans and some of the Democrats too. What a massive own goal for David Lamey and Starmer
A quick reminder Dan Hodges is former Labour MP for that well known working class constituency of Hampstead and actress Glenda Jackson so totally unbiased🙄 Perhaps struggling companies could reduce their advertising budgets, so the regular complaints that white men no longer feature in adverts and appear to be being airbrushed out of British society can be consigned to the bin. Now there is an idea to mitigate the appalling Reeves budget (have you noticed she has totally disappeared- always the sign of a good budget and confident Chancellor)
John Lewis is one place I for one won't be shopping at. If this is their warped idea of a Christmas advert, the management of John Lewis should sack their head of marketing. Absolutely ludicrous.
Have you noticed every new tv show is fronted by a woman, not always Black, but always strong capable, heroic? The feminists tried saying women don't need men back in the 80s and 90s, this time they mean it.
I don't watch TV. I remember the days when you looked forward to the ADDs. The Adds on the YT are lost on me, half the time I don't even know what they are selling !!
Stop it. You people stand on your soap box telling other people how to live thier lives How many people are having their last Christmas? I am 83, how many Christmases do I have left? Leave us alone to enjoy the lights and happy atmosphere while we are still here to do so. And the way this country is going there won't be too many left for anyone .
My sister put here Christmas tree up last week, her husband has got terminal cancer this could be his last one, doesn't matter how earlie you put tree up, I totally agree with you!! No one knows when the great man up stairs tells us when it's time to go. Merry Christmas, @ litahuges, enjoy yourself, all the best for 2025❤
I’m sad about John Lewis! It’s really overplayed the diversity / woke card for years now. Excluding Dads from Christmas, implying fatherless families are the norm, is the end of the road for me. JL, for decades a favourite store in our family, is now boycotted. Tragic, but “go woke, go broke”, ….as the Archbishop of Canterbury did NOT say,
Once again Mike shows he understands some of the issues but his understanding of Christmas is woefully inadequate! It is NOT, nor has it EVER BEEN, "Two months of build up to sit down for a meal, then fall asleep in the chair"! Its 12 days of Christmas that starts on Christmas Eve, the LAST day of Advent, and continues to the 5th January; its not just one day!
Got some News for you Mr Hodges , labour couldn't care less about anyone's concerns about their economic 'strategy ' . A government headed by a narrow minded , Sociopath doesn't do care .
Or even better find a small British retailer and boost their income, then the money doesn't go to a foreign registered firm taking their profits out of the UK.
JOIN REFORM. VOTE REFORM. Save your country
Reform is our only hope for our future
Yes it is get Labour out now get Reform in 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Boycott John Lewis. Go Woke Go Broke. REFORM 200%
Just ignore the woke nonsense. Don't boycott anything. Leave the lefties to all that.
So ignore their anti white propaganda AND buy their stuff thus paying their wages.. no, boycott. 🤦♂️ @lone8869
John Lewis has been suffering from incredible stupidity for a very long time. We all know that the vast majority of its Customer Service is handled by 3rd party providers. 1 of those providers deliberately cocks up the service so badly that when a customer calls up again they get passed to the other provider who then has to pay out for breaches of contract and unlawful behaviour, leaving literal millions up for grabs. So because the first provider isn't the one actually handing money out, they aren't seen as the bad ones. No one has the guts to sort it out, because John Lewis doesn't have the willpower to return call handling to their actual head office - but they are willing to take Financial Services off the providers when someone (artCeptual) reports a serious breach in the Financial Conduct Authority's rule about getting unqualified people to sell finance...
The agents keep getting the short end of the stick with their pay, working hours, work restrictions like being able to visit the loo (they have 2mins, and it can take 2mins just to get to the loo), and unrealistic targets. No one cares. No one in leadership is able to do the work they need to do, and then there's this weird watershed where the Senior Managers are busting their arses to get their Managers and SMEs do to their jobs, the Site Directors come up with dumbass 'activities' for the agents to do which just means they get to fiddle the hours to request more money from the client (JL), which artificially buggers how long you wait on the phone to speak to someone. This goes all the way up the line to some boardroom where they say, "Oh, you know what would be nice? How about an advert with no sign of any men!" FORGETTING THAT THE STORE IS LITERALLY CALLED JOHN!
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Boots too 👍
Boycott the woke 👀🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Mike Graham is a brilliant journalist
Reform UK every election 👍
The bigger lie to have people vote for them so shame
@@marc871 wake up UK
vote reform
REFORM UK
Vote Reform 👍👍👍
Nigel is the cat amongst the pigeons...We need more like him. Frightening to imagine the damage Liebour will do during their term.
They need to be out one way or another in under four years
There is NOTHING in this ad that would induce me to spend a penny with this business!
Too expensive anyway
Reform for the UK
Plus"The Tommy Robinson lot"
@@pipandcol- majority of reform voters support Tommy
We need Farage as our next PM. He’s the only one to save our democracy!!
We don’t need him around at all we are doing quite well.
He cannot win if the conservatives are on the other side, spliting the vote gives Labour a win everytime
@@lesleylamy With what, I definitely must have missed something!
@@maxine1200l must be missing something as well
@@451greenwood No party can ever win unless it's labour or conservative? Else it's splitting the vote? Nah. Vote Reform, ignore the NPC's
Reform ❤
Go Woke , Go Broke.
REFORM!
TRUMP! 🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸
Of course it's in decline. Nothing left to tax
Mike, you’re fab! Thank you SO much for speaking for the silent majority!
Its sinister
Another shop on the list. No more purchases from Boots & John Lewis.
It is P A T H E T I C!
Boot's Christmas advert is an absolute disgrace!
Using someone who complained the monarchy was too white....racist
Boycotted them👍🇬🇧💙🇬🇧
It’s all in our hands just boycott all these woke companies
Frankly, we need to celebrate Christmas while we can, surprised Sadiq hasn't tried banning it in London.
Only a matter of time I dare say.......
this generation doesn't understand Christmas and are falling foul of idiotic marketing people
They took christ out of schools and then wondered why our traditions have disappeared 🤔
Boots, john lewis. Anywhere else? Lost my custom. Woke bull
Have you seen the Etsy add on YT ?
Gillette.... and their owners
Budweiser.. and their owners
Disney and their franchises etc...
Vodafone they went woke with Cashless nonsense
Gillette, Costa coffee, bud light
It’s called social engineering, making you think life is the way that the flashy box in the corner of your living room tells you
What box! Havent seen one for 8 years!
@ Good on ya 😉👍🏼
@@greatscott369 Ohh dear! Not if you're easily offended !!!🤡🤡🤡
Loving Rivals 😅
The finances are stretched because of extra people living here that are getting benefits and support from funding 😢
Yes I was surprised THAT was mentioned tbh?!
How can their possibly be growth when nobody has money to spend. To solve this problem you should lower taxes and take away the fear of spending money
I am sick to death of all this so called “woke” crap!
Tories are finished mate.. Reform.
Too true
Its hilarious Farage knows more about what is going on in the US than Starmer or Lammy Ha Ha.
@@ancietman They only see what they want to see
He does that and He is FARmore intelligent than both of them put together
Christmas seems to have taken on political values! What's going on?
Christmas is predominantly White European. Its an attempt to devalue both .
@@AnonNonprofit I'm not doing Christmas any more
Nothing until December!!
Woke is a joke that's getting unfunnier. All these adverts aren't going to increase these shops profits. We're fed up with this DEI.
The sensible people in this country will do what they always do, and stop buying from these shops.
Mike at least you never cried tears about the John Lewis ad this year. # Letmenbemenagain.
I use John Lewis regularly. Not anymore not until they change and realise they messed up. My wife also a fan of JL agrees.
Reform reform reform nigel all the way please dont split the vote 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Not splitting just not vote for them there is no policies only farage spouting his rubbish, he does not say anything good in this country ,does not do his day job, only where he gets paid and gets air time,
Boots have just lost me as a customer, as if their prices shouldn’t have put me off before their crazy advert.
And yes Reform had my vote, and will again in 2029.
Vote reform in council elections.
When I were a lad ;) my parents waited until my sister and I had broken up from school and on the 20th Dec we'd go get a tree and as a family put it up together. My, how times have changed :(
Interesting to watch Corbyn behind Nigel and what he may be saying or thinking.
That's what I thought when I saw his weasley little face. Tried to make out what he was mumbling but no joy! 🙄🧐
@@carolinejohn4537He was shaking his head. No opinions other than their opinions count. Any other thoughts are banned.
The only way to save our country is to VOTE REFORM 🇬🇧
Sorry Dan normally agree with you but growth won’t happen now or in 6 months or 12 months Starmer is screwed Trump will sort him and Reeves I wouldn’t let her run a bath
Why is it everything and company has to have an agenda?? I'm sick to the back teeth of companies promoting an agenda in adverts. Stick to selling a product and keep your beak out of trying to promote an ideology! Simples!!
HEAR! HEAR!
I know of a person who who owns his own house, works one day a week(apparently self employed) and gets universal credit and all his bills paid including mortgage payments . He has just had a free central heating system installed and solar panels fitted using an eco grant. four years ago he got £50k extension on a grant... His next door neighbour who collects a state pension and is really struggling to make ends meet is NOT allowed any such GRANT and really struggles to survive. How is this happening how is this fair? He has is also become director of a charity with other directors living the same life style. It seems like a huge scam to me.
Maybe he should get a grant for his neighbor to stay warm this winter, instead of been feckless and thinking of himself amazing how these people know how to scam the system, and ordinary joe public like us have to fight for everything 🤬🤬😡
@@maxinehargreaves8371 It is truly sickening.
We have lots of black male actors as the white one are gone. Its a tick box selection
Shouldn't Labour Party UK rebrand as UnLabour.
A lot of people get "in work" benefits because so many employers will now only offer part time hours. It's hard to get full time employment and when you do it's usually on minimum wage.
When I was kid christmas lasted about a week. Now,I can not wait for it to be over.
I feel sorry for shop staff with Christmas songs playing all day every day. the 12 days of Christmas starts Christmas eve.
If they start playing Christmas songs in the shop before 18th dec I simply walk out .
I feel sorry for their staff, listening to that all day every day for weeks
You can always tell when it’s Christmas…Asda has the Easter eggs in
It's a good job someone in politics cares about this Country because Labour and Conservatives clearly don't
The Donald listens to MANY people before making a decision. He listens harder to his friends whom he respects. Nigel is his friend. Simple.
trump listens to nobody,his friends are only friends until they say something which he doesnt like which i suspect Elon Musk will find out
I’m so fed up of all the people trying to to screw over Farage, while being total disasters themselves…..
It's not just Trump who's against the Chagos debacle, it's pretty much all of the Republicans and some of the Democrats too. What a massive own goal for David Lamey and Starmer
A quick reminder Dan Hodges is former Labour MP for that well known working class constituency of Hampstead and actress Glenda Jackson so totally unbiased🙄
Perhaps struggling companies could reduce their advertising budgets, so the regular complaints that white men no longer feature in adverts and appear to be being airbrushed out of British society can be consigned to the bin. Now there is an idea to mitigate the appalling Reeves budget (have you noticed she has totally disappeared- always the sign of a good budget and confident Chancellor)
His mum Glenda Jackson was the MP, not him.
How do you know they aren't men in this bonkers country.
All my life, I get my stuff from John Lewis I promise I won’t anymore there’s plenty other places rest in peace John Lewis
@@mark39ful They closed our store here I will never trade there again
Do these companies want to go out of business?
Grow the economy? By taxing people, taxing the companies, if people have less money to spend on buying merchandises how can the economy grow?
Labour Party should not have spoken about Trump in the first place, idiots
The boycott list is growing! 🤣
thats boots and john lewis i'll be boycotting from now on. men hating companies
Dan er er er er er er Hodges
Another to add to the list along with Boots !!
John Lewis is one place I for one won't be shopping at. If this is their warped idea of a Christmas advert, the management of John Lewis should sack their head of marketing. Absolutely ludicrous.
Dont care dont watch tv its naff
Neither do I
Why is it so bad to say it like it is, if you're not working you're unemployed, claiming benefits.
Christmas will be banned soon 😏
You mean it hasn't been yet?
@@Ivan_1919 If they ban Christmas many stores will close forever
@@roysimpson9711 it doesn’t matter in Starmer’s utopia
Does anyone watch adverts these days? We gave up last century when Tivo came out.
Nope, they're pathetic now and I got rid of my license because of the biased BBC et al.
Slipped into a worrying alternate universe.
It's not even the middle of November, far too early for anything Christmas! Kick off on 1st December by all means.
It's madness this early. Why not just leave the decorations up all year then?
I think some people want us to demean Xmas to suit their own narrative
WELL DONE NIGEL ..TAKE LIEBOUR TO TASK ….VOTE SUPPORT REFORM ..REFORM IN POWER ASAP 🩵🩵🏴🇬🇧🏴🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇸🩵🩵
I thought "economically inactive" was a super polite way of saying "lazy". Go figure.
You cannot call them Children, any MORE. Just X,Y,Z ,A ,B,C.
Sad BUNCH
Glad Farrage is causing some chaos! Liebour are a bunch of ass-hats 😁
Have you noticed every new tv show is fronted by a woman, not always Black, but always strong capable, heroic? The feminists tried saying women don't need men back in the 80s and 90s, this time they mean it.
Probably paid less than the men would be.
Wow! Yet again
does it really matter , of course not , Happy Christmas everyone
If the government are not concerned, they should be! Starmer and Corbyn are on par with each other!?
Nigel Farage for Prime Minister
DON’T THEY REALISE THAT PEOPLE WILL STOP SHOPPING AT THESE WOKE SHOPS OR BUY PRODUCTS THAT ARE ADVERTISED IN A WOKE BIASED WAY …LOOSE SHOPPERS 👍
7 million Foreigner's working in UK. Most in jobs Brits could do...eg delivery driver.
Up to now I loved John Lewis. They've just lost one customer of 30 years.
I don't watch TV. I remember the days when you looked forward to the ADDs. The Adds on the YT are lost on me, half the time I don't even know what they are selling !!
Stop it. You people stand on your soap box telling other people how to live thier lives
How many people are having their last Christmas? I am 83, how many Christmases do I have left? Leave us alone to enjoy the lights and happy atmosphere while we are still here to do so. And the way this country is going there won't be too many left for anyone .
My sister put here Christmas tree up last week, her husband has got terminal cancer this could be his last one, doesn't matter how earlie you put tree up, I totally agree with you!! No one knows when the great man up stairs tells us when it's time to go. Merry Christmas, @ litahuges, enjoy yourself, all the best for 2025❤
I’m sad about John Lewis! It’s really overplayed the diversity / woke card for years now. Excluding Dads from Christmas, implying fatherless families are the norm, is the end of the road for me. JL, for decades a favourite store in our family, is now boycotted. Tragic, but “go woke, go broke”, ….as the Archbishop of Canterbury did NOT say,
Only ever shopped in johnlewis about 5 times in 25 years ………it was handy at the time but they’re irrelevant now
Once again Mike shows he understands some of the issues but his understanding of Christmas is woefully inadequate! It is NOT, nor has it EVER BEEN, "Two months of build up to sit down for a meal, then fall asleep in the chair"! Its 12 days of Christmas that starts on Christmas Eve, the LAST day of Advent, and continues to the 5th January; its not just one day!
Got some News for you Mr Hodges , labour couldn't care less about anyone's concerns about their economic 'strategy ' . A government headed by a narrow minded , Sociopath doesn't do care .
This is FKING disgusting . Another i wont pay a penny too
I would trust Nigel to care about his more than Stamer
Wasn’t Boots bought by an American company??
Just shop at Aldi😂
It's the only place you can afford to shop The price takes away choice . No choice ,no competition . No success
Or lidl
Or even better find a small British retailer and boost their income, then the money doesn't go to a foreign registered firm taking their profits out of the UK.
Think Christmas should be every 4 yrs like the World Cup 😂 at least then we could afford it and look forward to it
Hahaha
Let's face it Christmas has lost its meaning . It's totally commercial . Ask a child about it and they would tell you what presents they want
I always say "can you remember the gifts you recieved last year "
eww the prime minister can't even be bothered too look smart!!!!??? pair o trainees?
Great Ad to watch and really nice story ,but maybe not so smart to totally ignore 50|% of the population ?
Gave up main stream tv months ago so havent seen these ads.
The lidl advert is great
We had our Christmas Pageant first weekend in November here in South Australia !! 😵💫🥺
No Boots. No John Lewis. Be careful retailers, bad advertising can lose customers.
I disagree, I think you should start seeing Christmas decorations and ads right after thanksgiving so the 29th of November.