Until a very few years ago, all poppies were the same size. That there is now some kind of a competition strongly suggests that the whole thing came to its natural end today.
The red poppy is now as much of a political statement as the white poppy is, and a rather larger source of revenue for political campaigning instead of veterans' welfare, which ought in any case to be the responsibility of the State that sent them to war.
Why should we carry on with this in 2019 and beyond?
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