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Kerning is my passion

I mean, you're a bookshop, why would you be trying to appeal to illiterates?

Hmmm, they are going out of there way to be unwelcoming to most of us. But perhaps some people did see them that way? They pays their money and they makes their choice. In this case, they chose unwisely.

"Join us for a pint (we're fully licensed) bants and a book in our Reichstag reading room"

She couldn't maintain a welcoming environment. OMG the irony as she waves a huge "Fuck off immigrants" sign in her window.

A friendlier location you say. Have you tried 1933 Berlin?

"I am also searching for premises in a friendlier location. If you know of a place that might suit, please do get in touch." Nigel Farage's front yard? Maybe?

"Welcoming environment", "Greet everyone warmly", "a wide range of imports"... Are we absolutely sure this isn't some sort of satirical masterpiece?

I thought that lot wanted to create a hostile environment.

maybe she was expecting some trade from across the border in Thetford.

“Britain’s only conservative and common sense bookshop” 🤡 Targeting the demographic that is least likely to actually read a book seems like a flawed marketing strategy in my view…and economic reality has confirmed my assessment.

I'd never heard of them but apparently they are/were "Britain’s only centre-right bookshop". Somewhere that Nick Clegg and various Tory wets might hang out then?

I noticed they have a deeply fictitious book for sale on their website - "75 Brexit Benefits".

Go fash, lose cash.

Imagine going for an audience that doesn't really read

Swansea. A small local cinema here is also closing down. The owner refused to close during lockdown until she was forced to and then invited Katie Hopkins to speak. She never understood that the people who went to her cinema were offended by her whereas her supporters never went near her place.

There must be a friendlier location where fascists are welcome. Late 30s Nazi Germany perhaps?

The customer is always Right

Floated their Racist Bookshop idea on TwitX and had loads of 'yes, do it' and likes. Neglected to factor in that most responses were RtWng Bots. Thick AF

#soyright

More of this, please! Make more racist twat-biscuits miserable and destroy their livelihood

That lot are more “book burners” than “book readers”, I thought.

Racists burn books, they don't buy them. Here endeth the karmic lesson.

The closure of a bookshop is a sad thing. This exception proves the rule.

Racist discovers yet more inconvenient consequences of being a racist…

Looking for new premises in a friendlier location? I recommend Nazi Germany

Even if the views weren't horrid I often wonder how such specialised book shops ever get by. The left wing one in Durham for instance. How many people read books about socialism in a small city? And here it's political views that appeal to people who aren't big readers....

A red flag in a really literal sense.

Good to know that this emporium of hate didn't survive even in Suffolk.

Karma's a bitch

Handy when racist business owners are so transparent. To be applauded. Like tradesmen who have Reform party, or Brexit party logos on their vans. Makes chosing a plumber etc. very easy

Nice of her to post about her struggle though.

I went on their website and there are quite a few propaganda books. Which explains why most people don't want to shop there. No, I don't want to listen to you tell me how Alex Jones and Lyndon LaRouche was right unironically. So it is not even a normal bookshop.

The kind of people who buy and read books do not vote Reform/Restore. No wonder they don't come to your bookshop. I wouldn't. It's a self inflicted wound and a display of, lousy business acumen.

Well done Suffolk, speaking with their pounds and pence.

I think they probably deserve to fail.

She could move to Great Yarmouth, sell buckets & spades as well and phone Immigration on charity rowers at sea with the rest of the knuckle draggers on the east coast.

A racist bookshop seems like the most definitive example of an oxymoron you could get.

We value freedom of speech, say Oldspeak Books, but only in one direction.

What, she doesn't understand why there aren't enough white readers to keep her "Whites Preferred" bookstore open? Running a bookstore is, I think, a tough skate without deliberately telling a bunch of readers to piss off and accidentally saying the same to many others.

Nice

I remember when the BNP bookshop in Welling was a focal point for the racist/anti racist marches after Stephen Lawrence's murder. It was finally shut down. We weren't sad.

“New premises in a friendlier location.” Clacton maybe? Should be able to decide next week.

Moving to on-line vendor instead

Very highly rated on trust pilot...presumably by the NF or whatever they call themselves these days I do wonder if 'Oliver' has ever actually been inside a Waterstones?

"I am also searching for premises in a friendlier location. When I have built my time machine I will let you know where exactly in 1930s Alabama I pitch up"

I'll miss their weekly book burnings...

It's also in Long Melford where, frankly, anyone would struggle to maintain any bricks-and-mortar bookshop.

Probably some options in the Portsmouth area. (I grew up in the area. Insular is an understatement.)

I'm no business guru, but it seems being openly hostile to one group of people and attempting to sell books to another group who are not big on books or reading, is a questionable strategy.

Seems it'd be real easy to tell who's genuine by how bald they are and when they throw a Nazi salute.

The only fully licenced bookshop!

David Starkey..

Is it down to the fact that the people these books are aimed at reached peek reading capability on page 3 of the sun?

Is the 'harder to find,' book Mein Kampf?

It’s a bold business strategy - opening a bookshop aimed at people with a reading comprehension level of a 5 year old.

I live ten minutes from this shop and this news has made my day.

Todays lesson. When you indulge in Old Speak, you will surely fail.

"I am remaining fully online" Yeah well I think we knew that

Apparently they are holding a “Säuberung”evening soon followed by an inevitable “Kristallnacht” response!

I took a look at the shop’s website. Really awful stuff. I hope they go under.

Searching for premises in a friendlier place, eh? Might I suggest Nuremberg, c.1937?

A more welcoming place for this deeply cretinous, completely stupid rancid old bigot who announces on her front page that she hates anyone in the following long list of categories? How about Strangeways? What a brainless moron.

Most people who support her politics don't read books.

The problem with these morons is that they think that everyone agrees with them.

He complains about lack of support for his book shop, Hmm, perhaps flag shaggers can't read ?

Mein Kampf, translated into various languages, will always be available in their online store. FREEDOM!

FAFO

There's a handy list of people to avoid at the bottom of that message!

Did they check the venn diagram of 'people who support remigration' and 'people who read books'. I don't think the two circles intersect....

Something a bit hypocritical in her bragging about her imported titles. Are they legal?

That's one bookshop I'd personally avoid

Closed shop for closed minds

They're located in a racist area so presumably thought that would go down well.

Oh no! Where will I get a copy of The Turner Diaries now?</sarcasm>

So she's happy to import books? Surely she should be working to repatriate them not bring them into Ingerland?

Who knew most bookshop addicts tend toward the liberal? Looks like a demo by an old geezer who was planning to close the shop anyway.... He would have lost some business had he put a Palestinian flag in the window - but he'd have gained a few also

'A friendlier location' you mean a more racist one.

Good work everyone. Let's show them that the online space can be just as unwelcoming

I hope she is up to her neck in debt for the Mortgage on this shop.

Not as many racists out there as they would like. What a shame not. Location; Ringers Yard, 9 Hall Street, Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9JF, England.

just sat here envisioning the kind of person who 1. has the classic Hallmark-movie / tumblr fanfic-writer dream of "moving to a rural town to open a bookshop!", 2. has the cash reserves to actually make it happen and 3. makes it a racist bookshop

Perhaps he should look for premises in Orania?

Based on the increasimgly frantic tone of her posting I am beginning to suspect that running a racist bookshop was not financially viable particularly given just how extreme she is. Even in a media environment this permissive no one is dumb enough to go on GBNews and endorse The Camp of the Saints

It isn't just the vile flag but look at their Instagram page on what they sell, I'm glad it's shutting down.

If the racists could read they'd be very upset.

What's odd about this English reactionary stuff is it's so blatant that it's culturally inappropriate. I know of one 'historic' American bookstore owned by conservatives and they're much more subtle - if they weren't, they'd alienate people who actually *read*.

Maybe the flag was simply to announce it is she that is remigrating? Possibly to 1930s Germany?

WTAF?

Sadly for him, his customers can only buy so many copies of Mein Kampf before their neighbours start looking at them oddly.

"I am also searching for premises in a friendlier location." Has he tried Germany in the 1930s?

Props to you both for bringing this to my attention. Turns out they're openly publishing some of the most extreme fascist list out there. Passed this info on.

They are looking for a friendlier location but i can't wish this on anyone. Maybe the moon.

It reminds me of the old NF joke vote NF and send the anglo saxon back

She's looking for a friendlier location for new premises. Maybe it's not other people being unfriendly, if your core belief is to kick a quarter of the people out of the country.