Showing posts with label Remembrance Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remembrance Day. Show all posts
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Sunday, 9 November 2014
Rochester & Strood Green Party's disrespectful Remembrance Sunday anti-war campaign
The Green Party in Rochester & Strood marked Remembrance Sunday by setting up an anti-war stall to promote their candidate for the by-election being held on the 20th.
Other parties stood down their campaigners for the day as a sign of respect but the Green Party took the opportunity to set out their stall in the constituency. They have been condemned by members of both UKIP and the Conservatives who have described it as ridiculous and disrespectful.
Other parties stood down their campaigners for the day as a sign of respect but the Green Party took the opportunity to set out their stall in the constituency. They have been condemned by members of both UKIP and the Conservatives who have described it as ridiculous and disrespectful.
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Thursday, 14 November 2013
Hypocrites attack UKIP over poppy wreaths
A couple of UKIP branches have attracted criticism for laying wreaths at Remembrance Day events, with one in particular coming under sustained criticism for the size of the UKIP logo in the centre of their wreath.
Members of Plymouth & South West Devon branch laid a wreath at the war memorial in Plymstock which had a large UKIP logo in the centre. Labour and Tory councillors immediately went on the attack seeking to score political points despite being told that the design of the wreath is something that the Royal British Legion decide on and that members of the branch have no say in what it looks like. The Royal British Legion have also confirmed that they produce wreaths with the logos of all the mainstream political parties on so similar wreaths will have been laid across the country by the Tories and Labour.
A wreath with a small UKIP logo was also laid in Lincolnshire without the branch's knowledge which also brought out the political opportunists with the leader of the Tories there trying to make political capital out of it by attacking the local party.
Trade union funded anti-UKIP campaigners, Hope not Hate, have attacked UKIP's Thurrock branch for laying the same type of wreath - the design that the Royal British Legion choose and the branch has no say over - at the war memorial at Grays in Thurrock.
It's worth noting the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all lay wreaths at war memorials on Remembrance Day and have done for years yet there has been no criticism in the press of those parties for doing what some UKIP branches have done in exactly the same circumstances.
Three of these identical poppy wreaths are an acceptable way to remember our war dead and one of them is a disrespectful political statement that brings shame onto the people who bought it and belittles the contribution our armed forces to the nation. Can you spot the odd one out?
Members of Plymouth & South West Devon branch laid a wreath at the war memorial in Plymstock which had a large UKIP logo in the centre. Labour and Tory councillors immediately went on the attack seeking to score political points despite being told that the design of the wreath is something that the Royal British Legion decide on and that members of the branch have no say in what it looks like. The Royal British Legion have also confirmed that they produce wreaths with the logos of all the mainstream political parties on so similar wreaths will have been laid across the country by the Tories and Labour.
A wreath with a small UKIP logo was also laid in Lincolnshire without the branch's knowledge which also brought out the political opportunists with the leader of the Tories there trying to make political capital out of it by attacking the local party.
Trade union funded anti-UKIP campaigners, Hope not Hate, have attacked UKIP's Thurrock branch for laying the same type of wreath - the design that the Royal British Legion choose and the branch has no say over - at the war memorial at Grays in Thurrock.
It's worth noting the Tories, Labour and Lib Dems all lay wreaths at war memorials on Remembrance Day and have done for years yet there has been no criticism in the press of those parties for doing what some UKIP branches have done in exactly the same circumstances.
Three of these identical poppy wreaths are an acceptable way to remember our war dead and one of them is a disrespectful political statement that brings shame onto the people who bought it and belittles the contribution our armed forces to the nation. Can you spot the odd one out?
Monday, 10 November 2008
Remembrance Day
The Waveney branch of UKIP attended the Remembrance Day service at Lowestoft yesterday and chairman, Jack Tyler, laid a wreath.
John Woodhead, the branch treasurer, said about 1,000 people attended the service which is an amazing turnout for a Remembrance Day service. There are some high resolution pictures of the service on the UKIP East website.
I attended the Remembrance Day service in Aqueduct in Telford yesterday where my two eldest boys represented 1st Brookside Cubs & Scouts. There were about 40 people there in total which isn't a bad turnout when you consider that Telford didn't even exist during the two world wars and Aqueduct was only a small town.
John Woodhead, the branch treasurer, said about 1,000 people attended the service which is an amazing turnout for a Remembrance Day service. There are some high resolution pictures of the service on the UKIP East website.I attended the Remembrance Day service in Aqueduct in Telford yesterday where my two eldest boys represented 1st Brookside Cubs & Scouts. There were about 40 people there in total which isn't a bad turnout when you consider that Telford didn't even exist during the two world wars and Aqueduct was only a small town.
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