‘Tampon Tax’ campaigners stage photo protest on campus

Royal Holloway students staged a campus protest against the tax on tampons yesterday afternoon.

The Women and Marginalised Gender’s Network teamed up with the Feminism Society to encourage students to express why they oppose the classification of tampons as a luxury product.

Tampons and sanitary towels are taxed in the UK as “luxury items”, whereas products such as Jaffa cakes and crocodile meat carry no tax, as they are seen as “necessities”.

Tampons aren’t a luxury gift mate

George Osborne has said he’ll take the money from the tax, and spend it on improving crisis centres for domestic abuse. However campaigners have responded by arguing this should be paid for by the government anyway and not funded only by women.

The Royal Holloway photo campaign used signs and whiteboard responses to show why they think the tax should be scrapped once and for all.

The stocking is full of tampons

Tactical spelling correction

The guys were getting involved too

No they ain’t

Why?????

Mooncup is bae

#truth

Festive protesting