Christmas ad is a shot in the arm

TESCO HAS had 3,000 complaints from anti-vaxxers about its new Christmas ad.

They’re screaming it encourages medical discrimination by portraying a double jabbed Santa showing his NHS App to get into the country with his presents.

I actually think it’s delightful and an accurate reflection of our lives this past year. Played out to Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now, it shows families reuniting, celebrating, eating and playing together, and people flying off to see loved ones. It’s joyous and without doubt the best Christmas ad this year.

If there IS a message it’s that, thanks to the vaccine, this Christmas will be a lot happier than last. Nowt wrong with that – because it’s true.

And Tesco shouldn’t worry about those screaming we should all boycott the store. We won’t – and they won’t. Because this time next month they’ll be shouting about something else.

I LOVE to see those crazily decorated houses at Christmas with brightly coloured gnomes in the garden, life-size Santas and a zillion coloured lights that can be seen from space. They always make me smile.

Not so the ‘elf and safety mob at Feock, Cornwall, who’ve banned Roger and Elizabeth Clifford from putting up their annual display because – they say – the lights would encourage people to walk on the communal grass areas (isn’t that the point of communal?) and cause a slip hazard. Oh, yes, and aliens could land in the garden.

What in God’s name is wrong with these people? They’ve got big fat Santa trying to squeeze his bulk through a zillion chimney stacks all over the world and they’re worried about mud on the paths?