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HM Govt You Decide Adverts on this site

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Perihelion · 19/07/2014 07:44

MN, why are these HM Govt political propaganda adverts all over the place on your site?
I'm not clicking on them, but from their other stuff I've seen and had put through my door, the "you decide" is really part of the campain to vote No in the Scottish independence referendum in September.
Does MN support the No vote?? Or are you happy to advertise any political shite? I'm not aware of any other blatent political advertising on here before.

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KateSMumsnet · 26/07/2014 17:32

Hullo all,

Sorry for the delay in responding to this. Do you you have a screenshot of the ad? It will help us track it down and take a closer look.

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EllenMumsnet · 27/07/2014 09:13

Morning all. Yes TheWildRumpyPumpus is right that MN has hosted political advertising before.

The You Decide ads are purely commercial - MN itself has no position on the referendum. Had the Yes campaign asked us to host their ads we would happily do so.

Hope this clears things up.

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RowanMumsnet · 28/07/2014 09:33

Hi cozie

When we accept ads from organisations or companies, we don't see it as giving 'tacit blessing' - as we said, we'd very happily run ads from the 'Yes' campaign if they wanted to spend their money with us. We've accepted political ads in the past from other parties/causes, and we really don't see it as implying that MNHQ 'backs' those particular causes at all.

We've said in the past that there are certain parties we wouldn't take money from - the BNP was the example we used then - but that doesn't mean that we are editorially endorsing the ones whose ads we are happy to host.

We've got lots of in-house editorial on the referendum coming up, and we're doing our best to get a webchat in with representatives from both sides. MNHQ itself is taking absolutely no position on the referendum outcome, just as we wouldn't take a position in a General Election.

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