Do We Have To Hear From The Poppy Police Every Year?

[sp1814]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/aishagani/a-poppy-fell-off-and-the-poppy-police-are-out?utm_term=.lqJl8d0nd#.qxjBaVXZV

[TheChair]

Britain gets more like North Korea every day.

[ummmm]

People are strange. I wouldn't have even noticed.

[jno]

I don't think North Korea has Twitter, they have to do all their bullying by carrier pigeon.

[Mamyalynne]

Sigh, sad souls.

[sp1814]

The speed at which they clamber onto their high horses seems to increase every year.

[Peter Pedant]

It's a big thing for the English ( anglos )
the sociologists amongst us may be able to explain why
Battle dead of Waterloo werent as revered
( but the confederate dead were - if you look at the Traflagar Sq American Hotel - 1917-19 - a reference point for American troops come to win the Gt War - they go out of their way to show that it is run by the confed veterans associations )

even the Belgians say they dont treat the war dead as the English do. "The belgian fields are full of english stumbling over furrows and weeping and rarely a belgian is to be seen" - all the year round not just Nov.

Having done it myself it is a very emotional experience.

Michael Foot was slaughtered over wearing a donkey jkt at a cenotaph 1981 - yhou will also notice that history is being re written before your very eyes !

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/7361078/Michael-Foot-and-the-donkey-jacket-that-wasnt.html

and harold and mary wilson got it in equal measure when he turned up to the cenotaph with a darned jkt - Mary was NOT praised for home economy


the footballers wore poppies in defiance of the rules
and no one said - oh come on boys - play the game !
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/731727/England-football-Poppy-Remembrance-Day-no-FIFA-fine-Scotland?

[Cloverjo]

Ridiculous. I had to scan all the faces to find him and see that he wasn't wearing a poppy. I didn't even notice Broad's bright blue socks until I read the tweets.

I don't believe the poppy fell off in the photo shoot, but I also don't think that everyone on tv or in the public eye should feel they have to wear a poppy.

[4candles]

I used to be proud to wear a poppy when it was voluntary.
Now I'm still proud to buy one, but it's kept in a pocket, ready to be displayed to any poppy bully who challenges me.
Sad times.

[naomi24]

This poppy police thing sours the poignancy of remembrance. Those who 'remember' will, those who don't won't. Another year over.

[Mamyalynne]

Regardless of whether he wore one or not, I think this is a good quote...

//Rather than forcing poppies upon sportsmen and women of varying beliefs, remembrance should be about the most obvious thing... remembering.//

The Independent.

[sp1814]

10ClarionSt

Looking at the photo of him arriving at the airport wearing his poppy, my guess is that when he took his rucksack off, the poppy went flying. It's reasonable to assume that after losing it, it might've been difficult to find a replacement - if indeed he even noticed it had gone.

[jno]

he'd be lucky to find a replacement when he gets to Australia, sp1814, their remembrance is in April.

[tamborine]

Ignorant man! Which other country offers him succour & opportunity.

[ummmm]

I don't wear one.

[anotheoldgit]

I feel certain that some of the responses show in this thread would not have been not so supportive, if the non wearer of the poppy had been a person such as Nigel Farage.

[Old_Geezer]

Storm
Teacup
Twitters in need of a real life