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Originally Posted by joeysteele

I wear my poppy with pride for over a week at least and he could still have badges stuck to his coat but not his poppy.

Imagine the outcry had Corbyn,May or Farron removed their poppy in public.

If he had 3 perhaps he would have done better to pin them to separate coats he was likely to wear along with his other badges.

I was joking Joey.

I do not know why Farage was not wearing one, but I am sure that there was a very good reason.

Yet, the overreaction to this is typical.

Here we have an historical moment captured in a photograph, of the FIRST British politician to be invited into the White House to meet the most controversial President elect of all time, and all we can latch onto is the fact that Farage is not wearing a poppy.

Farage is a patriot, and the high esteem which he holds our military personnel, and his great reverence for our war-fallen, should be beyond the dispute of even the most extreme of 'Farage Haters', so I am positively certain that for Farage to appear in public at such an important, historic and media intense meeting WITHOUT a poppy, then there WILL have been a perfectly valid reason.

Perhaps a poppy was laid out on Farage's dressing table waiting to be affixed to his jacket which was hanging in the wardrobe, and perhaps Farage - for one of a myriad reasons - was 'running late' and amidst all the frenzy, simply OVERLOOKED pinning the poppy on?

Perhaps he remembered as he was being ushered off-camera into the room where Trump and the world's press were gathered, and there was NO TIME, due to the strict high pressure split second SCHEDULING, to go back to remedy that oversight.

Who knows?

What I do know, is that a man like Farage would not DELIBERATELY NOT wear a poppy as a slight to the fallen war dead which it symbolises.