Benjamin Zephaniah is wearing the white poppy on Question Time. I must admit that I am not convinced by the white poppy.
The red poppy was initially, and is still properly, anything but a glorification of war. The white poppy message to "remember all victims of war" is already included, and the red poppy no longer features the name of Haig.
White poppy money goes to the Peace Pledge Union, a campaigning organisation for absolute pacifism (a cause to which I do not subscribe), rather than to a welfare charity of any kind.
Wear your red poppy with pride. I am wearing mine as I write. Because of what it really means.
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Agreed. But Zephaniah is GOOD. He should stand for Parliament. He lives in South Lincolnshire, presently "represented" by John Hayes.
ReplyDeleteAlas, he probably wants to legalise cannabis.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but I have a considerable Rastafarian following on Twitter.
Now, on topic, please.
His call for paternal responsibility supported by the State was very you and very much in keeping with your cry of "No More Fathers' Wars".
ReplyDeleteWhy was Peter Hitchens wearing a tiny little poppy badge instead of a poppy?
Probably a non-pacifist, non-Marxist, non-Islamist statement against the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Good for him, and I wish that he had said that on air. His treatment of the cult of the War in 'The Rage Against God' is absolutely invaluable.
ReplyDeleteOn which note, be back here on or near Remembrance Sunday, when I shall indeed be returning to, among other themes, the fact that you can support the importance of fatherhood, or you can support wars such as the above, but you cannot do both.
Peter Hitchens wears a small poppy to validate his anti views on the second world war. If he doesn't wear a poppy to remember the fallen then he shouldn't wear one at all. Odious runt.
ReplyDeleteHis less influential brother apparently has a piece in his latest book attacking the people who tell the truth about the War. Once that cult falls, so that it can never again be used to railroad us into any and every military adventure, then we shall all be a lot better off. Peter's work to that end is absolutely vital.
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