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I don't have a problem with the Royal British Legion's definition of the proper use of the poppy, which is effectively what you are referring to in your threads. I do have a problem with the highly questionable activities of a warmongering country called Great Britain and the politics attached to said wars. WW1 is a classic exposure of the 'class divide' and the fact the elite, the users of innocent people, were never gonna be slaughtered - there are lotsa books written on this disgraceful subject alone and it even extended into the second world war. Arms provision is another issue, an immoral one, and, like other hypocritical countries/arms providers when it comes to preaching re proper peace initiatives, our govt is a major offender trading 'ordnance for money' and allied to their generous political contributors - blood money for the killing of innocent lives in many cases and nobody can defend this practise please!! Also there is indeed a significant link of politicising the red poppy, a hijack of its proper status and that is where millions of people like myself take issue. It is just 'convenient' for many people to ignore it and hope the issue will go away but, as hibeejim has commented in a previous thread, it is 'troubling' and even FIFA supposedly 'got it wrong' last year when they called it a political symbol that has been used to glorify war and there are many examples of that misuse by certain people in this country who have set their own warped agenda.