[West Ender]

The white poppy is a complete nonsense. How dare this man say that wearing a red poppy "glorifies war"? When the poppies, all red, grew on the fields that had been trenches in WW1 they grew where thousands of lives had been lost so he could live. This stupid man didn't sound old enough to have any connection with the world wars and is probably too thick to appreciate the lives lost in various conflicts since then.

No soldier, sailor or airman goes to war for the glory of it but to serve his country. In the world wars, WW2 in particular, many had no choice, when the call-up papers arrived they had to go. They didn't want to die, they didn't want to kill, they had to fight for our country and we should always be thankful that they did because the alternative to defeating Nazi Germany is too horrific to contemplate.

It's because of what they sacrificed that this man has the freedom to wear his silly white poppy. That he wants to do so is his business but to speak, publicly, against the sentiment behind the red poppy is an insult to all those who made it possible for him to be born in a free world.