To boycott Cadburys

[kerstina]

To boycott Cadburys as well as Philip Greens Arcadia group. I am fuming over the fact we did not want Kraft to buy out Cadburys and now they are trying to avoid paying taxes in this country. I am never going to buy an Old Jamaica bar again please join me in this.

can one still buy Old Jamaica?

I boycott Cadburys

(only because the bastards don't sell it here)

If being bought by Kraft means that they start selling in Germany, trust me, it's for a worthy cause

i'll boycott, as long as its not on special offer :)

I would join you, but they don't make milka chocolate fingers, do they?

Kraft is part of the empire of tobacco giant Philip Morris. If that's not reason enough to give the whole enterprise the swerve I don't know what is.

If I wanted to leave the UK and move abroad, for whatever reason, then there is nothing that could stop me from doing so. If that reason is because I don't enjoy paying taxes at 50% rates then again, nothing that anyone can do about it as everyone a) has free will to do as they please and live as they please and b) has the right to arrange their tax affairs to minimise taxes so long as it is legitimate.

So, if you transpose that concept about an individuals rights to a company, the same thing applies. The UK doesn't have a god given right to make companies (however long they have been established here) to stay here and the Government is only now addressing this issue because other companies have voted with their feet. It's not tax avoidance it is expressing their right to set up business wherever they want.

Also, if the shareholders hadn't sold their shares to Kraft then this wouldn't have been an issue. The majority of the shareholders would have been pension funds. Therefore anyone having a UK pension fund is likely to have indirectly participated in the decision to sell the shares to Kraft which would have boosted their pension pots.

Ryoko, Nestle would not have bought Cadburys. Cadburys is much too small a company for them to be interested in (and this is fact)

YANBU

Cadbury chocolate isn't that great anyway. It's too sickly sweet and not a nice texture.

I much prefer German, Belgian, etc chocolates. I'd rather buy a Lindt bar that a Cadbury bar in any event.

Started this thread a while back surprised to see its back. Yes hear what you are saying cat 64 definitely don't want any jobs lost because of this but the action of a boycott is because it is the only power we have. Not to buy products. If they want good PR not bad public relations they should be paying taxes that they can well afford to pay. Still feel angry about this and the share holders that sold out.

Oh I know, I know!

Shall we boycott because Cadbury's uses cocoa that has been handled by child labourer's?

We could do the same with Nestle too