Without wishing to review the pantheon of Alex Hornby's twitter timeline, there is a line. If someone objects to an image being used and is then blocked or castigated, then AH is wrong. I also, FWIW, find some of the tweets that people highlight as cloying (here's ME in front of MY amazing staff). Now here comes the slightly subjective bit.... there are people who have genuine queries and complaints but whilst those should be going to Transdev rather than AH, they should still be handled professionally, However, if it's people who are just trolling then, irrespective of the severity, I'm not surprised they get blocked.
However, despite all of that, it still does not get away from the ridiculous partisan views that have been displayed by people on both sides of the divide. Transdev are far from perfect but the opprobrium that was displayed about the generator, as an example, was stupid, nothing else. Are they amazing.... well no. That's marketing speak...in the same way as my Arriva Sapphire didn't exactly sparkle when you know it's a refurbished 5 year old e400. However, should operators not be trying to sell their business and promote themselves? Or demurely hide away, fanning themselves demurely?
I'd sooner an operator try and be good, even if they do get it wrong on occasions. CityZap Mcr was a daft idea and I said so then and now. Red4 wasn't a bad idea but the execution wasn't how I'd do it, FWIW. We see the odd duff livery and rebrand, and we all have our opinions on branding anyway, but some of the views are so jaundiced that they beggar belief.
No different to Transdev using vehicles on School Services in Harrogate, still in the livery of its sister companies, without taking off the vinyls.
We have voted to leave the EU so the more Union Flags the better! Nothing wrong with patriotism.
I think the point is that rather than spending money on union jacks in some slightly puerile exercise, spend it on something more important.