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Originally Posted by Niamh.
This whole Poppy stuff annoys me, why should people be forced to wear a badge or be vilified as not caring for the cause otherwise? It's like those stupid FB posts "Share this if you love your daughter" crap like if you don't share it then you must not, it's ridiculous. No one should be forced to wear a symbol to prove anything to the world...........imo of course
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Absolutely fine if anyone does not want to wear a poppy, of course it is.
However there are millions of people in the UK who see it as a visible expression of acknowledgement of the price paid for and by many in wars.
Equally there are other ways to show respect too, however for political party leaders in the UK, poppies are worn by them and even moreso on the day allotted as remembrance Sunday.
Party leaders get criticised for straying from that expected norm, last year for instance Corbyn was hammered in the media for not bowing his head low enough at the cenotaph and appearing to nod more than bow.
They all know they are under scrutiny, now if Farage does not want to wear a poppy after doing so for ages now on remembrance Sunday, that is fine.
However just as other leaders would be criticised by a great many I would say,for any move from expected behaviour,then that is what I am doing here.
He is at present leader of his party UKIP.
Like all leaders he will be looked at as to that and if he can remember to and insist on wearing his badges, all I am saying is how could he not then remember a simple poppy.
No, no one should be forced to wear a poppy at all, if they neither want to or object to, and some religious organisations have nothing to do with the idea.
That is fine and an individual choice.
I am 100% sure though,any mainstream other political leader from the UK who had no poppy on remembrance Sunday, would have been pilloried and probably by UKIP supporters joining in too.