What is wrong with John Lewis?

Spot on - I love this - exactly- bland surroundings - tough luck- buy bright cushions to cheer it up ??

John Lewis is fine.Carries taste is questionably and whoever moves in next will paint over all that bling!

My first home as a married woman was 5 minutes from Peter Jones and I have loved John Lewis ever since. I agree, a visit there is safe - but their offer is not boring at all.

I don’t buy furniture there though. Everything else, yes. And during the first lockdown, the only supermarket slots I could get were with Waitrose, a bit expensive but great veggie food.

I am sitting in my ‘boudoir’ looking about seeing all the John Lewis goods I have bought on my trips to England. Floor to ceiling wall to wall lined curtains, they would have cost a bomb here, duvet, covers, pillows, sheets, cushions and a pair of table lamps. That’s before I look in the armoire. I am going to have a problem shopping next time, to get goods through customs. I’ll have to ‘use’ them before coming back.

New PMs get £30,000 towards refurbishing their flat - let's face it, we don't all have the same taste. Anything above that has to be funded personally. And, by the way, apparently Cherie Blair spent well over £100,000 refurbishing when Tony was in office. Its down to Boris if he allows his fiancee to spend that kind of money - no accounting for taste either!

I don't think the Blairs expected someone else to pay for any spending above the £30k. Boris did. That's the difference. Otherwise no-one could have cared less about his ghastly gold plated decor.

The Blair’s spending was over 10 years and not all in one go. They didn’t exceed the annual allowance.

It really says more about Carrie Simmonds taste than John Lewis. I would have thought she was used to other people's cast offs
It's what the chums who stumped up the dosh for the refurb ask for in return which is the problem.

Thankyou for the article about Loulou Lytle. Its inspired me to cheer up my sitting room which is a bit brown and manly to suit the late Mr F. I wouldn't want it too fussy but a bit more feminine would be nice.
From the distance of N Z I don't have an opinion on Boris's decor!

Saetana

New PMs get £30,000 towards refurbishing their flat - let's face it, we don't all have the same taste. Anything above that has to be funded personally. And, by the way, apparently Cherie Blair spent well over £100,000 refurbishing when Tony was in office. Its down to Boris if he allows his fiancee to spend that kind of money - no accounting for taste either!

This tweet is harsh but I do see why people are getting fed up. This is not about the curtains or the wallpaper it about the fraud; it's about the "bung".

Nothing wrong with John Lewis at all. We can be grateful that he hasn't Trumps money or we would be looking at gold everywhere in that nice old building.

That tweet is one example of why we have a Tory majority.

Galaxy

That tweet is one example of why we have a Tory majority.

I know some like to think they don't vote for anything other than British National Tory because they are so hard done by but that's not the reason is it? Basically, they agree with the move to the hard right or they wouldn't be voting for them.

Telling people they are thick is not a good election strategy if you want to address their concerns and win them over.

Alegrias1

Telling people they are thick is not a good election strategy if you want to address their concerns and win them over.

I don't Alegrias1. Why would I? They won't change their minds. All this poor me stuff is coming from the "Greed is Good" generation of right-wingers. They are not going to change but they telling them they are annoyingly perverse - that seems okay to me.

Just for you, I will repeat - it is not about John Lewis or the cost of wallpaper it's about possible fraud. You don't have to be a Labour Party persuader to object to that.

It wasn't my tweet by the way. It was in reaction to a Tory saying Starmer was "playing politics" by being photographed in John Lewis with a roll of wallpaper.

I live this thread. Did anyone see the picture of keir starmer in John Lewis looking at the wallpaper strategically placed one thinks! Definitely a prized photo shoot sorry keir too obvious!

I wasn't aiming it at you PippaZ, I was aiming it at the writer of the tweet.

You feel you have to explain wallpaper-gate to me but if you took some time to read any of my posts, and not jump to conclusions that tribal politics is the only option, you would have seen that I am quite aware of the real issues around the payment for the decoration of the number 11 flat and don't have to have it explained to me. Not a Tory supporter, nor a Labour supporter, you might be interested to learn.

So before assuming that you are educating the masses (i.e. me) in a condescending manner, try to understand people's views and opinions better.

Alegrias1

I wasn't aiming it at you PippaZ, I was aiming it at the writer of the tweet.

You feel you have to explain wallpaper-gate to me but if you took some time to read any of my posts, and not jump to conclusions that tribal politics is the only option, you would have seen that I am quite aware of the real issues around the payment for the decoration of the number 11 flat and don't have to have it explained to me. Not a Tory supporter, nor a Labour supporter, you might be interested to learn.

So before assuming that you are educating the masses (i.e. me) in a condescending manner, try to understand people's views and opinions better.

I think there' a bit of misunderstanding going on here. It would be helpful if we knew what Galaxy was responding to with this:

That tweet is one example of why we have a Tory majority.

I'll be blowed if I know which post it was...

Do you know Alegrais, I generally like your posts and think you add to the thread but today I feel cross with all politicians even the online warriors (probably including myself) because I just don't believe we deserve this and we go round and round in circles but nothing changes.

Of course, it will change eventually, everything does, but I am beginning to see why the suffragettes took up positive action.

PippaZ Sun 02-May-21 08:08:40 Maizie. I did say it was a bit harsh. Apparently, I am the only one not allowed to be fed up with all this. Hey-ho.

Just for you, I will repeat....

Was that really necessary?

Anyway, back to the cushions.....

Obviously, it felt like it was at the time Alegrias. Equally:

Telling people they are thick is not a good election strategy if you want to address their concerns and win them over.

Could be seen as fairly condescending. Time to get off the computer I expect.

Who told the Tory supporters they are thick? The original tweeter.

Who is talking it personally because they think I was getting at them....?

The perils of posting on online forums. Time for a cuppa.

Sorry managed to miss all this. I was referring to the tweet that Pippa posted calling Tory voters weapon grade Thickos. How to win hearts and minds, not. In order for labour to win an election some of those thickos need to vote labour, then wow as if by magic they become good people do they?
Just to clarify I have voted labour (with one embarrassing diversion into lib dem territory) all my life.

I am fed up with it too Pippa. That's why I want labour to win. I think the way to do that is to look at the Biden campaign rather than the Clinton campaig for example. And yes I know USA is very different to here.