BNP Activists Must Support Poppy Day Appeal – BNP Leader
British National Party supporters must make an extra effort to assist the national Poppy Day appeal as poppy-sellers to help avert the worker-shortage crisis for that charity, BNP leader Nick Griffin has said.
Reacting to the news that the future of Britain’s Poppy Day appeal is in crisis amid fears that a dire shortage of volunteers could bring an end to the annual fundraising campaign, Mr Griffin said it was part of the BNP’s mission to preserve and honour all those heroes who had sacrificed for this country.
“As this forms part of the reason for our existence, BNP supporters should, wherever possible, step in and become active in the Poppy appeal as sellers and assistants,” Mr Griffin said.
General volunteer numbers have dropped by up to 80 percent, putting the future of the appeal in doubt. Officials at the Royal British Legion (RBL), the charity behind the campaign, and former soldiers say youngsters no longer care about the sacrifices troops have made.
A RBL spokesman said: “The number of volunteers is declining. People who have done the job for decades reach a certain age and are no longer capable of doing it. Ten years down the line even more of the elderly volunteers are going to pass away so we desperately need to replace them.
“Many young people think we’re just associated with the world wars and they’re not affected by it. We support the veterans from the Falklands and those currently serving, or those that have served, in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
The Legion was founded in 1921 to support veterans of the First World War and their families. It has a membership of 400,000, making it one of the largest organisations in Britain. Its 800 branches mark Remembrance Day with fundraising events. They rely on unpaid help to sell poppies and to canvas support from the public and businesses, usually with door-to-door collections.
Funds raised go towards assistance to ex-servicemen, women and their dependents. They also go a long way in providing advice, including pension claims and appeals, and employment support for disabled veterans.
Anybody who can help the Poppy Appeal should contact the RBL co-ordinator on 01622 717172.
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I was wearing mine last night and someone noticed it and went straight to the bar to buy one too. Straight after putting it on he put the thumbs up to me.
I agree, we went to a WW1 grave in France with a relative a few days ago. Very moving and we must never forget. Tomorrow we will be with the Legion for the annual launch.
This is *NOT* just the duty of the BNP, or any other patriotic party (if there are any others in this country), but it is the duty of the British people has a whole.
Remembrance Sunday should not just be about remembering the sacrifices Men and Women of our armed forces have made, but also as a remembrance of how badly they are treated by our Government.
Our great Government cares more for the welfare of criminals than of the welfare of service personal (but past and present). Immigrants who have given nothing to this country get supported more by our Government (as can be seen here http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1850249.ece).
If things continue as they are, Remembrance Sunday will one day be banned for fear of upsetting certain minorities.
Wear your poppy with pride and support the welfare of service personal.
http://www.poppy.org.uk/index.php/give-money.html
PS, Ed can I make a suggestion that the Poppy emblem be placed on the BNP website front page?
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I’ll ask webtech to do it, thanks - Ed
If you are a shop keeper/retailer the Poppy organisation should trust you to sell/collect the money for the poppies you manage to get the public to buy.
I’ve done this twice now and this year they have found a window poster to accompany the campaign.
Last year I collected £52.70p for the appeal fund.
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I was wearing mine last night and someone noticed it and went straight to the bar to buy one too. Straight after putting it on he put the thumbs up to me.
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I bet they were not ‘foreign’ nationals were they? Over the next few weeks, take note of how many ‘foreigners’ will be wearing a Poppy. Last year I saw only one Asian family wearing Poppies, yes one family out of 1000’s. I felt like going over to that family and saying thank you & well done on you, but thought they may have thought me a nutter. This is yet another sign of how alien our way of life, our beliefs and customs are to these people who come to this country, not to be ‘British’, but to carry on as if they were back in their homeland.
I was very impressed the other day in Chester on how many young European people were wearing poppys asking a young Polish lady why she replied we will never forget the sacrafice Britons made to save Europe i was quite moved .
As well as being a proud member of the Btitish National Party, I am also equally proud to be a member of the Royal British Legion as well as ABEX, the Association of British EX Servicemen. There is nothing the nation destructors of the EU/Lib/Lab/Con/Islamist axis of evil would like more than to see the RBL die a slow death at the hands of apathy. I see our latest Defence secretary Hutton (is the previous incumbent still Scottish Secretary?) is pushing for greater cooperation with the EUSSR on defence issues and a European Defence Force - how these Marxist lunatics dream their nightmares:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKTRE49P1AI20081026
I have never stood in all weathers with those collection tins but make an annual donation instead; perhaps I need to do both seeing as I’m pretty much retired and do have some spare time. Incidentally, if and when my new avatar is being displayed, I visited an old friend yesterday who actually flew the spitfire pictured in the late 40’s. He was just too young to fight and fly (or die as many did defending this sacred land) in the war but did go on to be an RAF pilot and who I am immensely proud to know and have once worked for.
@NukeLabour
Elaborating on your apt remarks. It seems my 9 y o grandaughter and her playmates have come up with a new little game - “Spot the real British person” ….. answer “They are wearing a poppy”.
This is in a traditional small market town in the southwest, which sadly has suffered much “enrichment” in the past few years.
‘Out of the mouths of babes’, well not quite, but it is a hopeful sign that our children can think for themselves, and the brainwashing is not taking full effect.
Incidentally, as some of you may be aware, the British Legion Poppy Appeal is running a Christmas Draw.
Certain they will be delighted to supply tickets.
Phone 08444 771047
http://www.britishlegion.org.uk
Royal British Legion, PO Box 975, Aylesford, Kent, ME29 7XG
Tickets are £1 each, come in books of £11 worth and the closing date is 15th January, 2009.
This is *NOT* just the duty of the BNP, or any other patriotic party (if there are any others in this country), but it is the duty of the British people has a whole.
And it’s every year my family and I wear and display our poppys from mid Oct, until we all meet on Rememberance Sunday to honour those who gave their all for us “We shall remember”.
Saw a picture of Gordon Gloom the other day wearing a poppy, i thought at the time ..Two faced pig, insulting our war dead by wearing it, when he doesn’t care a damn about our troops.
Strider certainly does help the Legion, for:
“Together we are legion!”
“Many young people think we’re just associated with the world wars and they’re not affected by it. We support the veterans from the Falklands and those currently serving, or those that have served, in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
The above paragraph has reminded me of something I have believed in for many years. I believe that it should be part of the school curriculum that all young people visit the cemeteries where our war dead are buried. This should include the Menai Gate, where the Last Post is still played every evening, to honour our dead. Also, the schoold visit should include trips to the cemeteries at Normandy and Arnhem.
Teachers should then teach their pupils exactly why those servicemen are buried in these places.
Perhaps if this was taught, then our young would have a much greater appreciation of what people in this country sacrificed so that they may enjoy the freedoms they have.
However, with today’s crop of politicians who exhibit nothing but contempt for our country and its people, I suspect this would never be part of their agenda.
That is a great idea. I don’t particularly think the younger generation arn’t interested, i just don’t think they know what is going on around them. The popular press should be printing a lot more about Afghanistan and Iraq, maybe even having a running journal in the press about what the common soldier is actually doing on a day to day basis. The public haven’t a clue what their soldiers and Airmen are doing in the wider world. It is a same really. However the press don’t seem to be that interested, whenever the press have a week or so writing about the good the British forces are doing the BBC counter it by coming up with a so-called bullying incident.
This is one of our most revered dates The 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. One that our government would prefer that was forgotten. In which their leader at the time came dressed like the dosser he was (Michael Foot) to dishonour our glorious dead. If we are only allowed one date to remain in the public memory it must be this one. Their precious life blood spilt for our freedoms. If this is to go like all the other historic events of the past then The Albion will be truly dead. Not whilst I have a breath left in me it won’t. It is what we are. It is the clarion call that we the British must observe to win back that which they won and was squandered by vile politicians, such as Foot and all those that followed him.
Do not forget us old Aden boys, nasty campaign that was.
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Lieutenant Colonel Campbell “Mad Mitch” Mitchell RIP. I wonder what the great man would think of today’s Great Britain? - Ed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Campbell_Mitchell
Ironic that the dwindling number of Poppy Day sellers here in Britain coincides with the highest rate of growth of the Afghan opium poppy, in spite of the latter violating the “principles” of Islam. The Taliban are using profits from selling the forbidden narcotic to buy weapons and hire recruits while our fighters can’t even find a roof to sleep under when they come back home. Thank God for the Royal British Legion. Wonder if our Remembrance Day will be downplayed and hampered by bureaucratic red tape such as strangled Ashfordly and Havering last year:
http://ashfordly-police.blogspot.com/2007/10/red-tape-threat-to-poppy-day-parades.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1565306/Veteran-barred-from-copying-Poppy-Day-flyer.html
There is no place in the New World Order agenda for Remembrance Day poppies or for anything else which is remotely connected to love of one’s country or reverence for those who have given their lives to defend it from the tyranny of the day, be it that of Philip II of Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser Wilhelm II or Adolf Hitler.
The NWO is the mega-tyranny to end all tyrannies. Unlike any of its predecessors, it has no territorial limits. But like all its predecessors, it will kill its subject peoples, in this case 40 times as many as the total killed by all the previous tyrannies, Communist and otherwise, put together.
The LibLabCon crime syndicate and their EU masters work for and are a part of the NWO. It can be only a few short years before the EUSSR-ruling nations, whose past tyrants we have defeated, will outlaw both the Royal British Legion and Remembrance Day. They will disband the War Graves Commission and order that all visible traces of the war graves of the First and Second World Wars be erased. Finally, they will order the removal and destruction of all war memorials erected in public places and will declare the possession of military medals and the wearing of them in public to be serious offences punishable by imprisonment.
You had better “wear your poppy with pride”, as I will, while you are still allowed to do so.
The so-called “credit crunch” is a repeat of the strategy developed by the international banking magnates’ infamous predecessor, to “make money scarce”, last used, to catastrophic effect, in 1929. This time, the objective amounts to the greatest threat which the whole of humanity has ever faced.
We are witnessing the start of the Bildebergers’ endgame. Time is short. Only a BNP government can save us and our country now.
You are certainly right about the lack of poppy sellers!! I bought a poppy top of Breck Road last week but it fell off my coat! So I was going to get another while I was in town. Could not get one anywhere and the poppy seller on Breck Road has disappeared!
I need to get a box and take them into work. It wasn’t even this bad last yr!
Totally agree with this article, the British Legion rely on poppy day for a large if not most of their funding, they need money all year round, i make a modest monthly payment to them and if people can’t make a monthly payment at least get a box to be placed at work, club or organization or even better give up a couple of hours or a day for this great organization, i met an old soldier a couple of months back, St James’s, London, 96 year old ex-para, tough as old boots, collecting for the veterans, he wore the same medals my Grandfather gave me as a child and more, i had a good talk with him, i emptied my pockets and went without lunch (small price to pay), i shook his hand and said thanks, i walked away happy to meet such a fine man but sad of what the future would bring to ALL soldiers when this fine generation had passed.
Goes without saying.
It is the single one thing that anyone can do to say thank you to those who gave (and are still giving) for us.
If it was up to me, I’d ensure that each classroom had a box of poppies where the teacher can explain what Remembrance is about and encourage the children and their families to contribute.
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/arnhem/tex_banwell.htm
Tex Banwell’s exploits were pretty amazing too.
I will be the BNP representative at Stalybridge…..Remember them always.
God bless all the British troops alive & fallen, & God bless the RBL…..but please forgive me people, but I cant help but think how much the RBL/Heroes will get from that X-Factor Hero song? Our GREEDY & DISRESPECTFUL GOVERNMENT IS BOUND TO STEAL a large amount? It had better be a 100% payment to the people who deserve it!
Anyhow, God bless all troops & may you live forever!
Great work everyone I work in the entertainment business, I always tell everyone to get there poppy’s on asap and give all you can for our heroes, yet is see in the midland papers aston villa football club have banned poppy sellers, Im totally disgusted with the villa, my grandad fought in the somme 14-18 the great war and my dad went to the suez crisis, he would walk it to the villa ground in the fifty’s with my dad,and this is how they repay our saviours, shame on you aston villa football club, plus if everyone mailed the club they might just listen.
I am so proud to be associated with the BNP for many reasons, but none more prominent than the way we respect our veterans. As the son of a Dunkirk and El Alamein veteran, I am sickened by the way proud men and women who served their country are put on the scrapheap as soon as they outlive their usefulness to the ones who plan wars. I know there are many who have fought for Britain who are totally disgusted with the way things have gone. Ironically we may need to call on these people again to save our country from defeat, via the ballot box. Though I no longer have any faith in the voting system, I’m afraid nothing is as it seems and the political system is just a sham, so where do we go from there?
A lady that we can all be proud of:
“Mary’s 60-year poppy stint”:
http://tinyurl.com/6q33nx
and one of the reasons why people are less willing to collect for the Poppy Appeal:
“Women banned from collecting for Poppy Appeal”
I wonder exactly who the complainant was?
http://tinyurl.com/5nuc4j