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Should we take political party advertising? Your thoughts please...

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JustineMumsnet · 01/05/2015 10:32

Hello, Hello,
Following on from this thread I wanted to get your thoughts on the issue of political parties or other pressure groups advertising with us.

At the moment the list of advertisers/ types of ads we don't take (on the basis that they don't sit well with our site aim - to make parents' lives easier - and as agreed in concert with users over the years) is as follows:

Payday loans
Follow-on/formula milk
Baby food marketed to age under six months
Gambling
Cosmetic surgery
Nestle (formula milk marketing in dev world)
Publications, eg The Sun, Nuts and Zoo, which objectify women
Porn
Sex shops
Seaworld

Last election we ran ads from both Labour and the Tories - this time we've only been approached by Labour thus far.

Do let us know what you think.

Thanks so much.

JustineMumsnet · 01/05/2015 16:44

@MrsHathaway

Any webchats coming up? I feel that's more upfront than advertising, and presumably you'd hold yourselves to the same balance/bias rules the broadcasters do in theory.

We have Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday - still hoping to fix a time for Ed Miliband. Liz Truss coming next week too most likely though not fixed a time yet.

JustineMumsnet · 01/05/2015 16:45

Thanks for the input so far. We have taken political ads before now and one lined up for labour to run over next couple of days. Our principle has always been that we offer the same rate to all parties and we won't do anything other than straight display.

JustineMumsnet · 01/05/2015 17:32

@HeartsTrumpDiamonds

Yes, you see I wouldn't want to see BNP adverts because to me that is bordering on inciting racial hatred and so on - which definitely does not make parents' lives easier - and if you are not going to accept adverts from one of them, best not to accept adverts from any of them.

Tbh we wouldn't accept BNP ads - in same way we wouldn't have a BNP rep on for a webchat.

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