Poppy Appeal.

Right, here’s one to get the ‘juices of outrage’ flowing in a number of you.
Yesterday I was driving back from Maldon, Essex with a load of newly powder coated motorbicycle parts and I was listening to Radio 2.
And on that radio station there was a piece about the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
It seems that quite a number of people think that the advertising this year is somewhat heavy handed and the RBL are playing the ‘guilt card’ when it comes to getting us to stump up.
Apparently, the advertising has been farmed out to a new ad agency who are more aggressive.
The presenter took a neutral view but contributors both in the studio and who rang in had a variety of view points–some very surprising.
One guy was a Falklands veteran and he was very vocal that the RBL had become political and was supporting an illegal war in one of those brown coloured places and another gent who was a entertainer–he had worked for forces entertainment in the past and I think the RBL–was quite indignant that he was attacked on Twitter (whatever that is) because he forgot to wear his poppy on stage last Friday night.
He made the point that he may have contributed much financially but it didn’t count for much to the thought Police.
The point was also made that the way the poppy wearing thing is enforced in the media (especially BBC and C4)–is getting close to fascism
Anyway, I was interested.
What do you think??

Andy