‘powerful Western Railway’ has been ordered by the ASA to take down its misleading posters. Now we should strip it of its misleading nameHow can a landlord expect to get rent if the sanction for refusing to pay it isn’t eviction?A small excellent thing happened last week,but in a context of such stupidity and unfairness that it only brought home to me more strongly all that stupidity and unfairness, so I’d nearly rather it hadn’t happened at all. The excellent thing was that the train operator “powerful Western Railway”, or which is owned by FirstGroup plc,was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority from putting up any more posters implying it’s publicly owned. Specifically, posters that read: “The railway belongs to the region it serves”.
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Source: theguardian.com