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Perma-offended right-wing grifters are crying about the war on Christmas – again

For the 18-millionth time this hour, an array of eternally-offended Twitter grifters are saying Wokes have ruined Britain. And it’s that time of year when it’s over something Christmassy. Yes, it’s the trees. The shambling legion of the sad are outrage-farming over trees. Yes, you heard: trees.

They’re claiming that Christmas trees being renamed ‘evergreen’ trees. Naturally, this is a bollocks story they’ve made up. Equally naturally, ‘biology understander’ Sharron Davies was chief among the complainants:

Supermarket giants, of course, renowned for their elemental hatred of the Christmas season. Amazing how the ‘every tweet I do is about Trans people’ pipeline merges into the ‘I am rudderlessly angry about everything’ stream, isn’t it?

Where is this war on Christmas?

Who else has fallen for this? Britain is Broke, shockingly:

Though as you’ll see from the useful X note, the reality is far less concerning:

Misleading. Tesco still sells and advertises “Christmas trees” and is running a 2025 Christmas campaign; some artificial tree boxes use “Evergreen” as a product descriptor, not a decision to stop celebrating Christmas.

Here is a link which you – and, in fact, Sharron Davies – can follow to see that there are still no less than 10,000 items Tesco are selling with the word ‘Christmas’ attached to them. Yes, TEN FUCKING THOUSAND.

So if the Taliban and ISIS really have bought the majority share in Tesco, they’re not moving very fast with the renaming, are they?

The Wokes made Susan sad

Nevertheless, other Grinchy fools jumped on the bandwagon. Enter – colour me shocked – intellectual heavyweight and Tory councillor Susan Hall:

While another X user found respite in the fact Lurpak had said Christmas on their packaging. Which makes you think how sad these people’s lives must be:

Lurpak is a Danish firm, by the way.

Not that it was hard to find evidence counter to these apoplectic claims. One X user shared a picture of ‘evergreen trees’ being sold under a huge sign which literally says ‘CHRISTMAS TREES’ (two thirds off with a club card, bargain):

Now these are all grating as hell. But I don’t think there is anything as pathetic as the headline the Daily Mail led with:

Britons rage over ‘woke’ Tesco’s decision to rename Christmas trees as ‘evergreen trees’

Britons? By which is apparently meant the same four people who appear in these kind of articles abut twice a week. Not the *checks notes* over 69 million people who simply do not care. Just Sharon, Susan and a handful of ALL CAPS X accounts.

Featured image via the Canary

By Joe Glenton

This post was originally published on Canary.