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The real poppy scandals
PETER FROST unearths some nasty truths about just who makes what from poppy and other military charities

So did you wear a poppy? Was it red or white? England and Scotland wore theirs and we still don’t know what, if anything, Fifa are going to do about it, at least at the time I am writing this.

Social media had its share of poppy pressure for and against and the repulsive Britain First once again conned a few naive people to like them on Facebook by pretending they were the brave champions of some threatened right to wear your poppy with pride.

They claim three-and-a-half million supporters and I never believed there were that many stupid people in the whole world but Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have convinced me that is probably a massive underestimate.

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