Black Friday was yesterday so today is what, Mauve Saturday? The whole Black Friday thing is only a couple of years old in the UK and I don't think we've got the hang of it. According to people in the US Black Friday is a mad riot of people wrestling each other to the floor in a 'survival of the fittest' scrap of life or death. But instead of fighting over the carcass of an antelope in order not to starve to death, people are throwing away their decency and humanity in order to save a few quid off an iPhone.
Walking around my city centre yesterday there were no queues outside shops, no people battering each other over the head with Furbees, in fact it was pretty much business as usual.
I can see why businesses keep trying to push Black Friday onto what seems to be a largely disinterested British public, it all comes down to money.
Trick or Treat, Prom Night, these were things we heard about from American films and telly, we didn't give a toss about them but keep being sold stuff relating.
I'm not being anti-American, I get that it is business and that we are all being played as consumers, that's how capitalism works.
But next time those people who complain about British values being eroded when a mosque is built in a UK town, I'd like to see what they have to say about Britain adopting US traditions over our own.
