I remember my grandfather telling me that he fought for freedom from oppression, and now I you are telling me that I can live here only if I follow your way of thinking.
I remember him telling me of the sickening horror of war and the death and the maiming. And I remember him telling me that he and all of the other teenage boys like him were terrified but had to keep a brave face because 'England expects'. And he told me, too, that war was caused by politicians who used many tricks to make war look glorious. What sounds better: "Boy 19 shot in leg. Screams for his mother as his burst artery leaks out his life blood." or "Hero lays down his life defending king and country." Government manipulates the truth; the media follow, and the population is fooled. You, dear Ajibee, have been fooled. You have been manipulated to believe that we must never question WHY soldiers are killed. You simply feel that we must cherish the poppy to honour those killings, to support the maimed and to let young boys continue to fight - and no one must challenge that idea.
There are many ways to honour those whose lives were taken by politicians without being forced to wear a poppy. The Poppy Appeal is well-intentioned but politicians have hijacked it. It makes being murdered seem like a glorious choice. It wasn't then and it isn't now. Your comment reminds me of Owen's poem Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Please read it, and then think about how it describes war. Do support charities, please. Do support those maimed by war and the families of those murdered in the name of politics. But do also question the system that allows such awful things to continue to happen. Do not assume because someone does not support the idea of the poppy that they are anti-British or anti-veteran.

Wrong, people like you who think it is right that others can be bullied into their way of thinking should leave the country, you would clearly be better suited to living under a more authoritarian regime, perhaps North Korea or Saudi Arabia perhaps?
And also, I'd love to know the practicalities of handing in your passport and then leaving the country, they'd never let you through the check in desk!

​What utter mince you talk.

Why buy this piece of crap. Why dont you do what i do and just give them a donation where they can use 100% rather than have to manufacture these subtract that cost and the marketing cost before actually getting them some money to use.

My favourite
http://www.poppyshop.org.uk/poppy-hijab-head-scarf-1561.html

I lost my lapel pin today . Now I know where to get a replacement .

Thanks

I just copied this from the About us section -

About Poppy Shop
The Royal British Legion logoPoppy Shop is the online store for The Royal British Legion and all purchases made from the Poppy Shop help to fund the work of the Legion, providing practical support and advice to Service personnel, past and present, and their families.
The Legion spends nearly £1.4 million a week delivering health and welfare support so every penny helps. Please include a donation when you reach the checkout.
More information about The Royal British Legion and its work can be found on the Legion's website at http://www.britishlegion.org.uk

Anyone who votes cold on this deal should hand in their British passport and go and live somewhere without the protection and service that our veterans and service personnel provide.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

"In Flanders Fields", one of the most memorable war poems ever written is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915. (Then) Major John McCrae, a surgeon attached to the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, wrote the poem after spending seventeen days treating the injured. He scribbled the poem
in a notebook while sitting on the back of an ambulance where he could see the wild poppies growing in a nearby cemetery near Ypres. McCrae tossed the poem away, but a fellow officer retrieved it and sent it to newspapers in England where is was published by Punch on December 8, 1915.

Seems a bit weird voting hot on a deal that means you give less to a deserving charity, especially as 90% of us would be buying them at full price without it. So I'm abstaining.

seems a bit expensive to me, i dont think passing on this makes you a worse person so ill pass.

I agree mate. I like what the poppy represents and wear one myself but it's meaning seems to have changed recently to be a defiant sign of patriotism which is concerning.

I suspect it will go the way of the St George's cross if the more militant continue their campaign.