Waitrose sacks wine expert over political tweets – help him fight back FSU member Ben Woods, who worked at Waitrose for 25 years, ending up as a wine specialist at the Henley branch, has been dismissed for expressing his conservative views online.   The tweets that Waitrose deemed sackable offences included support for Reform UK, reposting a Telegraph cartoon and asking whether the children’s book In My Daddy’s Belly: The Story of a Transgender Dad Giving Birth was “spreading misinformation”.   According to John Lewis, which owns Waitrose, its social media policy forbids posts that could be deemed “bullying, harassing or discriminatory”. Understandably, however, Ben believes he’s been targeted for his political opinions. “Waitrose has been treating me like a criminal,” he says. “I’m a conservative. That’s not illegal.”   Ben will bring a claim for unfair dismissal and discrimination under the Equality Act.   Please help him by donating whatever you can here. Every contribution sends a message that sacking people for expressing their perfectly lawful beliefs mustn’t go unchallenged.