It’s the latest in a series of environmentally focused rulings by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority, which has also nixed ads from Lufthansa, HSBC and Unilever.
Alone, yes, but not necessarily if they band together in a large group to represent their interests, and traditionally rambler’s associations and other such groups have had strong connections to the labour movement and socialist politics for exactly that reason in the UK, and have been able to win certain freedoms (whether that’s about protecting rights of way across land, or about workers rights, the “apes together strong” thing does actually have a lot of truth to it)
My granddad, god rest his soul was very active in his local rambler’s association (and they won a fair few battles against land owners, about keeping public rights of way open, and well signposted).
You’re right that governments don’t really care about or give anything to the common people out of beneficence, that’s why organising communities and workplaces is so important
Why does that matter in this case when their ideals of landownership align?
because if a poor person was complaining noone would listen.
Alone, yes, but not necessarily if they band together in a large group to represent their interests, and traditionally rambler’s associations and other such groups have had strong connections to the labour movement and socialist politics for exactly that reason in the UK, and have been able to win certain freedoms (whether that’s about protecting rights of way across land, or about workers rights, the “apes together strong” thing does actually have a lot of truth to it)
My granddad, god rest his soul was very active in his local rambler’s association (and they won a fair few battles against land owners, about keeping public rights of way open, and well signposted).
You’re right that governments don’t really care about or give anything to the common people out of beneficence, that’s why organising communities and workplaces is so important