BladeByChoice
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Just from General Blades Chat and can’t vote for your own post(s), here’s my vote.
Happy New Year, onwards and upwards, UTB
Happy New Year, onwards and upwards, UTB

Good post mate
I'm in my late 60s, served in the forces when I was a pup which I am extremely proud of, wore a Poppy going back as far as I can remember..
I now no longer wear a poppy or make any sort of donation..
I don't donate anymore because it has become about politics, money and not ex servicemen. Big wages are being paid to charity big wigs. The 10 biggest Military Charities including the Royal British Legion have assets of over £1.5 billion and over £280 million in cash reserves just sat there doing nothing while ex service men are homeless, jobless, mental health issues etc etc. The British Legion could solve these problems with their cash reserves alone not to mention the RAF Benevolent fund and the others. Its a scandal and I won't donate again till this changes, it won't change though.
I stopped wearing my poppy because of the poppy police every year and the poppy symbol is now becoming more about British Nationalism than remembering the dead. The poppy season is a new thing but there is blokes in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s who will tell you they have always worn a poppy, no they haven't its bullshit, in the 70s,80s,90s you would spot the odd poppy here and there but that's it, then the Gulf war started and one of Tony Blairs ploys to get folk onside was to ramp up everything to do with Remembrance day and supporting the troops with the help of the Daily Mail and The Sun, many will remember this and it helped him get a sympathetic view of the war from the public at the time. This wider media campaign led it to spread into everything including football, I think Chelsea were the first to get involved around 2005 then gradually over the coming years more and more followed, prior to this there was no poppys, silences etc at football.
I am totally with you Less is More and its not a competition, some football clubs seem to think it is, some fans seem to think it is, last week I saw three facebook posts from friends, each staunchly posting a photo of their poppy badge that they would be wearing to the Blades game, morons who were just after Likes nothing more, not one of them had worn a poppy till a decade ago and they are my age.
If you want to wear a poppy then fine, if you don't want to wear a poppy then fine. If anyone does not have that view in my personal opinion is they have an ulterior motive which 99 times out of 100 is due to politics.
I will always observe a silence on Remembrance Day and say a prayer for the great men and women who have fallen but will no longer take part in the circus every year.