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Daily Mail Poppy row, again.

  • 03-11-2010 11:32pm
    #1
    baldbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭


    Well it looks like John Snow is in for more abuse for refusing to wear the poppy. Are the Daily Mail been bullys?
    If i was John Snow I'd tell them to Eff Off.

    Jon Snow is wrong. Wrong not to wear a poppy on ­television when he hosts Channel 4 News.

    Wrong to ­elevate his refusal into a matter of principle. And ­particularly wrong to describe his critics as ‘poppy fascists’.

    He should remember that many of the men and women to whose ­sacrifice we pay tribute on Remembrance ­Sunday died to save the world from fascist ­dictatorship.

    I hope he now regrets equating the behaviour

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1326408/ROY-HATTERSLEY-Jon-Snow-poppy-fascism-row-Does-know-offensive-hes-being.html


Comments

  • #2
    Scarinae
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Gary Lineker, Andrew Marr and Clare Balding have been criticised for wearing a poppy too early. Cheryl Cole has been criticised for wearing a pimped-up version on X Factor. It seems that if you are in the public eye in the UK, you can't win with regards to poppy wearing!


  • #3
    forfuxsake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭forfuxsake


    This website shows where British soldiers have died since 1914. There is no mention of the hundreds who died fighting in the Rising or the Irish War of Independence. Anyone know why not?


  • #4
    breadmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,608 ✭✭✭breadmonkey


    It seems that the poppy is exclusively for those who appear on television and god forbid you should be seen on air without one!

    I'm currently living in London and I've only seen TWO people with a poppy in "real life". What a joke.


  • #5
    PARKHEAD67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭PARKHEAD67


    breadmonkey wrote: »
    It seems that the poppy is exclusively for those who appear on television and god forbid you should be seen on air without one!

    I'm currently living in London and I've only seen TWO people with a poppy in "real life". What a joke.
    poppy Fcukin shmoppy. If you join the army death is obviously a danger. Anyway the British army did enough damage to our country over the years(+a lot of other countries), so as far as Im concerned they can shove their poppies up their langers. I also think that Mayo knob on x-faker is a disgrace to this country for wearing one.


  • #6
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    baldbear wrote: »
    ...
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1326408/ROY-HATTERSLEY-Jon-Snow-poppy-fascism-row-Does-know-offensive-hes-being.html
    Why would Irish people care about a report in a British tabloid aimed at semi-literate knuckle-dragging right-wingers about wearing the fund-raising tokens sold by a British charity in support of serving and former members of the British forces?


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