Anger over ‘No poor people’ shop sign
An east London coffee shop has come under fire after a chalkboard outside the cafe read “Sorry, no poor people”.
Since the sign was spotted outside Brick Lane Coffee’s shop in Shoreditch earlier this week, the cafe has come under heavy criticism on Facebook and Twitter.
However, the owner of Brick Lane Coffee has said staff were not behind the message, adding that the offensive board was removed by employees as soon as it was discovered.
When asked who was behind the sign, owner Adrian Jones said he thought the establishment had been targeted by anti-gentrification protestors.
He said: “Someone came along and graffitied it on there”, speculating it could have been the same protestors who attacked the nearby Cereal Killer Cafe.
Brick Lane Coffee has yet to respond publicly to the dozens of people who have criticised the sign on social media, under the impression that the shop had put it up.
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I don’t understand at all, Poverty does not exist in UK: Our Glorious Tory Leaders have made that quite clear!
Is this more of our equal Britain at work?
Or was it a reflection of their prices?
Is anything going to be done about this, I think I already know the answer!
At first I thought someone’s just stopped and done that. But the writing seems very straight and neat, and there’s no sign of smudges where the original wording was wiped.
I think it’s quite funny, I needed a giggle now that my DLA has stopped and my income support has been removed, my Motability car taken away and I’m probably due to be made homeless and/or go to prison fairly soon. I’m grateful for a bit of respite from the worry of how to get food as I can’t walk to a bus stop and can’t afford a taxi or the prices of waitrose delivery. Bloody hell!,, WTF am I gona do?