Do you wear your poppy with pride?
Watch this postThe journalist Robert Fisk has written an article in the Independent newspaper headlined:
"The poppy has become a symbol of racism – I will never wear one again. The Entente Cordiale which sent my father to France is now trash beneath the high heels of Theresa May, yet this wretched woman dares to wear a poppy"
Do you agree with this man who appears to think that we only commemorate the white British people who were killed in WW1 and WW2 when we wear our poppies, or are you like me, wearing a poppy with pride to remember the dead of all nations who lost their lives in those wars and all the wars, which have blighted this world since then and continue to do so. It is easy, with hindsight, to say that these wars should never have happened but sometimes we have to stand up for the downtrodden and fight against the megalomaniacs who want to control the world. As for Fisk's comment about Theresa May - I shall treat it with the contempt it deserves! Presumably, he is a Remainer, and possibly a Jeremy Corbyn fan, but would he have mentioned the shoes of a male Prime Minister?
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