Are we over the annual poppy thread?

maryishere wrote: »

There were a lot of poor protestants who could not vote either.

When there was a referendum on the future of the North in 1973 everyone was allowed to vote and encouraged to vote. The vast majority voted to remain in the UK. No surprise the Poppy has a lot of support in N.I. still.

Things have changed from 1973 a new generation is here and slowly we were getting better but it looks like it is going backwards now.

FrancieBrady wrote: »

Quite squirm inducing that. Was that before Hitler was a very naughty boy?

From other information I was able to pick up it was a 1935 visit even then it was a concentration camp

citytillidie wrote: »

From other information I was able to pick up it was a 1935 visit even then it was a concentration camp

Post what you find on the RBL, people should know this stuff.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/921654603019628544

The poppy sold by the Royal British Legion remembers every single British soldier that has died since WW1. That includes those who carried out mass murder on the streets of Ireland, those who assisted in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1947 and those who butchered Iraqis and Afghanis this century. It is nauseating that the genocidal campaigns perpetrated by British soldiers are presented as ‘heroism’ by the Royal British Legion and its advocates. The funds raised by the annual poppy appeal are used to finance veterans of present-day conflicts taking a burden off the Ministry of Defence. The poppy is a symbol of British imperialism.

maryishere wrote: »

There were a lot of poor protestants who could not vote either.

When there was a referendum on the future of the North in 1973 everyone was allowed to vote and encouraged to vote. The vast majority voted to remain in the UK. No surprise the Poppy has a lot of support in N.I. still.

George Sunsnow wrote: »

Yes it is,but it has as much to do with current British forces as the cancer societies daffodil day has to do with st David’s day
It’s to commemorate and support aswell as support the comeroration of Irish soldiers who fought in the British Army in the two world wars,hence the poppy in the badge

Re:the shamrock poppy.

IMHO, it is a very cynical move by the RBL to have an Oirish version of their symbol, and a dumb move by Leo to wear it. If he wants to wear a poppy, have the courage of his conviction and wear one. Better still, wear a white one, or one remembering those fallen in wars but not financing the British Armed forces personnel, but don't wear this bastardised version of the poppy because it is branded to look Irish. Leo, like a certain cohort, constantly trip over themselves to be more British than the British themselves.

maryishere wrote: »

There were a lot of poor protestants who could not vote either.

When there was a referendum on the future of the North in 1973 everyone was allowed to vote and encouraged to vote. The vast majority voted to remain in the UK. No surprise the Poppy has a lot of support in N.I. still.

Not even Unionists talk about that vote. It was boycotted by one community. You had a govt who murdered innocent people the year before and covered the whole thing up. The whole thing was a joke.

Of course an even bigger joke is you bringing it up as having any relevance.

As someone else said it is now 2017. It won't be long before Sinn Fein will be the largest party in the north due to a complete failure of Unionism to respect the nationalist tradition. we will have direct rule shortly which is effectively joint authority in all but name. Times are changing Mary

theoneeyedman wrote: »

Re:the shamrock poppy.

IMHO, it is a very cynical move by the RBL to have an Oirish version of their symbol, and a dumb move by Leo to wear it. If he wants to wear a poppy, have the courage of his conviction and wear one. Better still, wear a white one, or one remembering those fallen in wars but not financing the British Armed forces personnel, but don't wear this bastardised version of the poppy because it is branded to look Irish. Leo, like a certain cohort, constantly trip over themselves to be more British than the British themselves.

It should be a shamrock inside a poppy by right. I. E. The Irish were in the British Army.
It is designed for those only too willing who doff the hat without questioning.

Have they said why it has taken a hundred years to spend all the money raised in Ireland in Ireland? Did they forget? - have to be persuaded? etc etc?

The butchers apron like the red poppy is a symbol of oppression, imperialism and is a reminder of the murder of millions of innocent men, women & children the world over.

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Every single Englishman should be ashamed of this.



"I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion." - Churchill.

This hatred killed 4 million in Bengal.

maryishere wrote: »

Wrong.
Of those killed by republican paramilitaries:
1080 (~52%) were members/former members of the British security forces
723 (~35%) were civilians
187 (~9%) were members of republican paramilitaries
57 (~2.7%) were members of loyalist paramilitaries
11 (~0.5%) were members of the Irish security forces

156 civilians were killed by the security forces, that is an average of one person every three months or so during the course of the troubles.
There were a number of people killed by the Irish security forces too.

You misunderstood me...

By Crown forces I included the Loyalist death squads,R.U.C, UDA UDR etc as they were under the remit of MI5 for the most part.