Poppycock

November 8, 2018 Longrider General News, misanthropy, Political 14

According to a nasty Corbynista scumbag the poppy is racist.

One of Jeremy Corbyn‘s most vocal supporters has labelled the poppy appeal ‘grotesque’ and ‘racist’ as he called for the Royal British Legion to be shut down.

Far-left journalist Aaron Bastani described the annual remembrance scheme as ‘a joke’ in a video posted in the run-up to Armistice Day on Sunday.

The footage was posted on Twitter by Novara Media, a website run by Mr Bastani that has previously been called the ‘armed police’ of Labour campaign group Momentum.

Right. I see. Well, there’s only one response to that. I’ll be wearing a poppy on Sunday and Aaron Bastani can go fuck himself with the rough end of a pineapple wrapped in razor wire.

14 Comments

  2. Racist? Oh really?? It is an inconvenient truth, but a truth nevertheless, that without the British Empire the First and Second World Wars would have been lost and totalitarian darkness would have subsumed the world.

    So when I wear a Poppy on Sunday, I will remember all the Indians (Hindu and Muslim) all the Canadians, Australians South Africans, Jamaicans etc etc who voluntarily gave their lives that the World could live in freedom.

      • Oooh can’t say that…you will be accused of being a PutinBot.
        Not on here of course but be careful where you say that, lol.

  3. Once this would have earned him contempt from all and a decent beating from the right person…..now a murmur of support and applause from many.

  4. How on God’s earth can the Rembrance Poppy be racist? It’s worn all over the world – black woman from Anguila on C4 News tonight was wearing a knitted poppy.

    Racist as more whites died in WWI (and WWII) than non-whites?

    Last week, on the morning of the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal launch, I stood under a giant poppy installation at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich with two of my former soldiers. One of them, a Fijian, whom I served with in Helmand Province. The other, a Jamaican whose great-grandfather left the West Indies to fight, and ultimately die, in the First World War, paying his own way across to Europe like thousands of other Caribbean men.

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    I bought and wear with pride my RBL Scotland 1918-2018 Poppy with pride; the gold
    1918-2018 looks great.

    To be PC – I find it Offensive and distressing that Aaron Bastani was supported and given a platform to promote his Hateful bile and encourage others to be bigots.

    Who’s up for reporting Aaron Bastani for hate crime?

    • Even in places like Malta, there is a local RBL delegation that still sells poppies and Remembrance Day is still briefly mentioned on Maltese television. The RBL have a wsbsite and it, along with other places in the Commonwealth, is still mentioned in the Maltese press.

  6. Four men from my mother’s side of our family gave their lives in WWI the fifth brother, the youngest, was told to fake a health problem. He survived. I will wear my RED poppy for them and my Grandfather who was wounded by a Turkish bullet and survived too. All of the family got though WWII. For them I will wear it too. This Bastiani is an utter shit.IMO.

    • I’m sure you know that if anyone offers you a white poppy, don’t wear one. They’re linked to trhe Peace Pledge Union (PPU), and they were, as Richard Kemp puts it, “arch appeasers”. They basically supported Hitler. Never wear a white poppy. It’s better to not wear one at all than to wear a white one or a purple one or a yellow one or whatever dumbfuck colour people come out with. Poppies are red.

  7. @Bloke in North Dorset, November 8, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    What I can’t get my head round are those that claim it glorifies war. This is the most solemn service anyone is ever likely to attend, possible with the exception a child’s funeral. Grown men (including me) will openly cry at the thought of what they witnessed, lost friends and family or just the sight of broken men and women struggling to march past a memorial erected to the memory of those who died. Pictures of graves, containing those who died and could be identified, stretching as far as the eye can see will be shown. With monuments to those who couldn’t be identified or weren’t found.

    And they call that glorifying war.

    +1 Even Swedish Mrs Pcar sheds some tears. The solemn remembrance is overwhelming. Festival of Remembrance when the poppies float down equally so.

  8. Interestingly agile bicyclist Danny MacAskill has gone down in my estimation after being quoted in The Hootsmon as saying that poppies glorify war. You obviously don’t need to be properly informed to ride a bike.

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