Liverpool transport firm Merseytravel, the company in charge of bus, rail and ferry services across Liverpool has vowed to ask news vendors to stop selling The Sun newspaper in the city.
This is in support of the “Total Eclipse of the S*n “campaign which seeks to kick out the newspaper from the city, following the outcome of the Hillsborough inquiry earlier in the year.
According to the BBC, Merseytravel, a strategic advisor to the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, plans to serve the vendors of the newspaper with letters, advising them to stop selling it in the region.
Liam Robinson, chairman of the transport firm told the BBC that people in Liverpool are “offended to see [The Sun] on sale” adding that those who have to sell it are “offended to touch it.”
“We are here to represent the traveling public and local people. [This motion] was backed unanimously by all political parties,” he told the BBC.
According to the Liverpool Echo, members of the ‘Total Eclipse of The S*n’ group had been invited to a Merseytravel committee meeting, where the motion was passed.
Already, around 175 vendors are said to have stopped selling the newspaper since the campaign began. Moreover, the ‘Total Eclipse of The S*n’ group has had two taxi cabs branded with their logo on the streets, a demonstration of how far they’re willing to take their campaign. Their ‘Do not buy,’ and “ Not welcome in our city,’ banners they say, are a reminder of the 96 people who perished in the Hillsborough disaster.
We can only watch and see how this situation unfolds.
