Mon, Nov 7, 2005
MegaStar
Phil Kemp
"Poppycock," fumes the Daily Express front page, just to welcome its reader(s) to another week of outraged, table-thumping campaigning.
Today, the crusade on behalf of middle England's silent majority - whether they want it or not - is about petty PC health and safety dweebs (see, they've got us started too) telling war veterans not to pin poppies on people.
Too dangerous, you see. Erm, not as dangerous as the things most of the old combatants have seen, that's for sure.
But not as dangerous as the compensation that could ensue from a misplaced pin.
Troubling, too, is the fact the silly advice comes from the British Legion itself, which organises the annual poppy appeal.
That's not all, though, squeals a clearly-distressed Distress. Veterans have also been told not to shake their collection tins, for fear of it being construed as harassment, and "they are not even allowed to put stickers on people's clothes in case they leave a mark".
The "insult to veterans" hasn't been taken lightly, with the Express dragging the latest outbreak of PC looniness into its ongoing campaign to "save our British way of life".
Why, there's even a phoneline you can ring to vote 'yes' or 'no' over whether "political correctness (is) now destroying the British way of life".
No, but premium rate phonelines are.
