Yorkshire Tea has urged social media users to"try to be kind" after the popular brand became embroiled in a row involving a leading Tory politician.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak posted a picture on Friday of him appearing to make a huge tea round for his Treasury staff.The company said it had been"pretty shocked" by the outcry, reminding people that Jeremy Corbyn had also posed with its products in 2017. Over the last four decades, the firm has evolved from a regional blend found in Yorkshire shops to one of the UK's most successful exports, being sold as far afield as Australia and China.
But it said it had had a"rough weekend" after Mr Sunak posted a image on Friday of him holding a bumper pack of 1,040 tea bags. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represents the North Yorkshire seat of Richmond, said he was"making tea for the team" as he took a quick break from preparations for his Budget in just over two weeks time.
Just a pity that BBC aren’t shocked at this Tory Governments continued lying, when will you hold this to account?
Absolutely unbelievable,who are these idiots..
It’s Sh*t anyway 🤔
Far left are completely out of control! Hypocrisy is they are the hateful ones. love Yorkshire Tea
Just waiting for the “ unfriend me if you drink Yorkshire Tea” campaign, twonks
I thought people weren't buying this stuff anymore, after they found out it wasn't made in Yorkshire 😂
Meanwhile...................................... ToryDemocide
People have the most boring lives
alistairpge You can’t buy this sort of advertising Yorkshire Tea must be loving it!!
The guy was making tea calm the fuck down !
I think they are prejudiced against coffee drinkers
It's easy to answer calls of complaint regarding this, just tell them to piss off, you are fully entitled to, you are dealing with mentally deficient people, they only understand a few words.
Gosh they blame the tories for everything but this just proves how vile the Labour Party is-it’s tea fffs!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🤦🏽♀️
ConservativeCCh Backlash implies they involved 🙄
Imagine boycotting a tea company because an elected politician drinks it.
I despair, world’s gone stark raving bonkers ☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
Overpriced rubbish. I'll stick to Aldo's own brand.
It’s nice to have a diverse government, but it’s crazy when the left talk like they do, so let’s get rid.
What kind of people do you have to be to boycott a brand, and try to potentially ruin it and lose jobs in the process, just becuase someone you dont like uses it? Beggars belief 🙄.
Sky news race baiting wow
A fine brew. Clearly the nasties are all demented...
This is the extreme left for you. Love is hate. Unity is division. All people are equal but are more equal than others. Pathetic. I'm ashamed to be of a left wing persuasion. 1984
YorkshireTea easy for me to say as I'm not the one on the receiving end of this bike, but ignore them and keep making a great product
Can anyone show twits from the ‘left’
ConservativeCCh ... other brands of tea are available... Good product placement Auntie!
I'm a left-winger and a Socialist and I'm embarrassed. The buying public has enormous power, what a shame it can't be harnessed to actually do some good. Like boycott chocolate manufacturers who use child labour for instance.
Would they do this if it was tetleys, typhoo or pg tips, get a grip
World poverty and crime . Now a complaint about a tea . Oh dear
Such people who make noise over such complete and utter bollocks are part of the reason the right keep winning. 🤦♂️
So tea bags are offensive now? I'm officially done. yorkshiretea
Just demonstrates how utterly pathetic and intolerant Labourites are...
They handled it very well, they didn't lay down to those lunatic toxic leftists.....and to think that is the side the BBC is batting for, shame.
From the pic, I can understand why people thought it was product placement. It wasn't, so move along. P.S. Yorkshire Tea, sort your bags out.
Are you effing serious......tea is now a political topic..... what's next, an invasion of Eccles because of the currants are not dark enough.
Gods own county
My favourite T .. but truth be told I’m drinking Twinnings breakfast at the moment as it was on offer..🥴.. it’s only Tea..but right nice T ..
We need CountDankulaTV to do a vid on this
patel4witham used to be in PR. Perhaps she could give them some free PR advice on reputation etc.
Storm in a Yorkshire tea cup.
Tories trying to be northerners! It doesn’t work ya dickheads! Ask Osborne and his “northern “accent attempt!
How in the bloody hell is the company to blame for one person taking a photo when they literally had nothing to do with it?
Yorkshire tea till I die!
Customers are boycotting based on what someone completely unconnected with the product did? Perhaps the Food Standards Agency should investigate whether Yorkshire Tea has an adverse affect on its customers’ intellect.
Like the Labour Party this brand is a lie.
No BBC ASsange story. Ssshhh!
I think people need to get their priorities sorted out! Imagine boycotting a brand because someone you don't like uses the same one. Is the brand supposed to tell everyone who can or cannot buy their products?! 🙄
Storm in a tea cup.
This is news
Great Tea, Far Left are crazy numpties.
Bunch of political lunatics calling for a Yorkshire tea boycott as if they are at fault for a conservative using their product. No wonder Labour didn't win with people like this.
Tories toxic effect. Total.
Why would any UK company receive backlash from UK Citizens after a UK Minister promotes said company via Twitter? What is the problem with these people? 🤷♂️
There was no such backlash. Just very clever pr company who made out there was. Bad press release journalism BBC
I say, steady on! Leave our dear old char providers alone. There's no need for such beastly behaviour. Have a care, there!
Why? PG is much nicer.
What a sick dystopian society we have become, the left wing and right wing are both part of the same bird,it’s the bloody head (media) making the bird fly in circles, maybe the coronavirus is the reset button ?
Just wait until Boris reveals which brew he always makes for Dominic Cummings. YorkshireTea Nope, Boris is allergic to the water! Just a fruity red wine for Dom's mug. Cheers.
He is the Chancellor of the Exchequer for Gods sake, the second highest position in the Cabinet and here he is advertising tea, but did he get paid for it I think matters more ?
People finding it offensive in their communist leftist mindset please switch over to Corbyn’s piss.. sure you would find it refeahing
It was worse in our day...
Welcome to the hard communist left.... and labour wonder why that got destroyed at the last election
Just ordered the 1000 bag ...
Then and everyone else
Anyone complaining - about what someone chooses to drink or about the company in question when they have no hand in what someone buys - seriously needs to get a life and a brain cell, cos the one (life or cell take your pick) they have is getting cold and lonely
By no means a fan of the current leadership but reckon whoever is calling for a boycott should maybe boycott social media as well seeing as they are using that as much as the tea bags. YorkshireTea can send me any returned tea bags if they want, will always be used here!
Remoaners moaning, no surprise there 😀
The loony left strikes again...
Members of the conservative government also breathe air, will the loony left be boycotting that too? Here's hoping.
Lots of people will also buy more!
Not one mention of Assange on tonights news. No wonder everybody is switching off the BBC
YorkshireTea Less than 5% of UK citizens use twitter. Any twitter 'backlash' is minimal in reality. Labour lost the election because they actually believe twitter is the entire universe. In reality, no one cares about Sunak's tea.
I'm a leftie and all I saw was Rishi Sunak pretending to make tea for someone. I'm from Yorkshire though so maybe I am just used to seeing Yorkshire tea! Same as I'm with Yorkshire Bank!
Left wing lunatics. How many local jobs does this company support? They've lost the f'in plot 😠
Everyone else has to buy their own tea bags .what are the odds these ones are on MPs expenses . Are we buying them twice .
All I have to say is this way the left always loose instead off being on message and hitting out at the treasury for Yorkshire tea's tax record or something relevant they hit out on the brand. chunkymark mrjamesob
It's all a bit pathetic . So this guy post a pic on Twitter with some Yorkshire tea, so what? Why lash YorkshireTea for it I'll continue to drink it that's for sure!! properbrew
Oh for God's sake!!
Is his main job to make the tea for Boris and Cummins?
Can the left actually be anymore stupid and hilarious?! I feared the laughs had ended after the election, but they are keeping us well amused! 😂
Only a bunch of mugs would worry about which tea is best.
People need to get a life, the fact he’s using their brand doesn’t endorse it in anyway. Loads of people like it regardless of their politics 🙄
People are idiots
Actually, one more question. Where in Yorkshire ARE the tea plantations?
I'm just sorry that it has taken me this long to learn that you can buy that big a bag of Yorkshire tea...
alistairpge And the BBC willingly doing the lefties bidding by making sure this is headline news so that we all get to know about their pathetic hissy fit outrage! It fits so well with their anti-Boris, anti-Trump and anti-Brexit agenda! DefundtheBBC
One question: does Brexit mean that actual Yorkshire people will replace immigrants.growing and picking the tea in the paddy fields of Yorkshire?
Should not be shocked how low the Labour Party will go theses day
Imagine this actually happening. People are scum.
Lets all boycott Tate and Lyle sugar🙄
Bollocks to em, I love Yorkshire Tea. Some people get pissed off about owt.
In the Twitter sewer. Where else? Silly people.
Another proof that this government is very unpopular. After all more than half of the voters doesn't want LiarJohnson Do you get it YorkshireTea ?
It just shows what a load of tosh social media really is and how the world is now affected by it and the problems it causes.. we were a thousand times better off before the internet was launched!
Snowflakes being vile as usual.
Bloody good tea!
Tea !? Tea !? Are you kidding me! I think there's more to be concerned with than friggin tea!!
How petty must you be to boycott a brand because a politician uses it. No doubt it's those who think they are 'liberal' too.
Anyone outraged by this needs to get a fcuking life, fast.
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It's tea. It just happens to be a really good tea. Thea people need to give their heads a wobble.
love Yorkshire tea....👌
Ffs... ''The Twitter image led to calls by some on the left for a boycott of the brand''.... What Yet another example of how totally ridiculous the loony left are. Jeeze have you idiots not got anything better to do, like find replacements for chief loony's Corbyn and Abbott?
Well I love Yorkshire Tea. I don't like ¢unts. So I'll continue to drink Yorkshire Tea.
?! Really. People are now getting into a brew over a bloke making Tea?
The left accuses everyone else of being hateful, while being the mother lode of hate.
If it's not M&S extra strong with fair trade Assamese then it's weak piss that may as well go round London sewers all over again in cycles......
People really need to get a life if their getting angry about somebody making a cup of tea.
Ignore the ignorant trolls
You know the news has hit rock bottom when it's about someone making a pot of tea.!
Omg, has the world gone mad, it’s a cup of tea, whether Yorkshire, typho, PG tips!! Some people need to get a life and move on, also don’t give these stories any oxygen BBC so it withers and dies on the ( tea) vine !!
Never threaten the British luv of tea
'Normal people shocked by backlash over Rishi Sunak photo'
How the hell can they blame the company, for someone going and buying their product in a shop?!
First Heck Sausages, now Yorkshire Tea. Surely it’s a southern conspiracy to knobble the north?
Can we still class the culprits as the tolerant left? They dont seem very tolerant in the slightest
Cos Labour fans are bonkers
Where in Yorkshire is this stuff grown? 🤷♂️
Stupidity, it's tea for goodness sake...
Great new slogan Sit down to a joke party with UKLabour or have a proper brew with YorkshireTea
Leftards.
No such thing as bad publicity
Most normal people are shocked over the backlash. I mean, the Chancellor breathes air as well, maybe the hard left should all hold their breath.
The tolerant left 🙄
Yorkshire tea is the best👍
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