Anger over ‘No poor people’ shop sign

Last Updated: October 13, 2015By
The offending sign outside Brick Lane Coffee [Image: Evening Standard].

The offending sign outside Brick Lane Coffee [Image: Evening Standard].

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.

Source: Brick Lane Coffee shop comes under fire for ‘Sorry, No Poor People’ sign after Shoreditch anti-gentrification protests | London | News | London Evening Standard

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6 Comments

  1. marcusdemowbray October 13, 2015 at 12:38 pm - Reply

    I don’t understand at all, Poverty does not exist in UK: Our Glorious Tory Leaders have made that quite clear!

  2. David McFarlane October 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm - Reply

    Is this more of our equal Britain at work?

  3. mrmarcpc October 13, 2015 at 3:32 pm - Reply

    Is anything going to be done about this, I think I already know the answer!

  4. AM-FM October 13, 2015 at 7:19 pm - Reply

    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.

  5. toocomplex4justice October 15, 2015 at 8:00 am - Reply

    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?

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