The first cuckoo - or poppy!

[Guest]

I have just spotted an MP on the television News wearing a poppy. It is 23 October - on my calculation, 19 days before Remembrance Sunday.

I will wear my poppy over the appropriate weekend, as usual. Is extending the 'poppy season' to almost three weeks becoming slightly ridiculous?

[mercia]

terribly important for MPs to be seen to be supporting the armed services (not just at this time of year)

it's a vote winner

have poppies started appearing on the newsreaders lapels yet ? I'm sure they have a large supply at television studios to make sure everyone appearing before the cameras is suitably attired

[french frank]

I'm sure they have a large supply at television studios to make sure everyone appearing before the cameras is suitably attired

What! I hope you're not suggesting they don't buy new ones every year? That could be the end of the licence fee...

[Extended Play]

I have just spotted an MP on the television News wearing a poppy. It is 23 October - on my calculation, 19 days before Remembrance Sunday.

I will wear my poppy over the appropriate weekend, as usual. Is extending the 'poppy season' to almost three weeks becoming slightly ridiculous?

Perhaps; but I'd willingly exchange an early start to the Remembrance season for an end to the seriously ridiculous appearance of Christmas goods in the shops before the summer is over!

[VodkaDilc]

have poppies started appearing on the newsreaders lapels yet ? I'm sure they have a large supply at television studios to make sure everyone appearing before the cameras is suitably attired

Is Jon Snow still the only news-man to refuse to be coerced into wearing a poppy?

[MrGongGong]

Aaah yes time for mr P to reappear with his annual rant about how anyone who doesn't wear one is a traitor and should be put in the stocks

[Anna]

What! I hope you're not suggesting they don't buy new ones every year? That could be the end of the licence fee...

Poppy sellers are not authorised to take to the streets before the first week in November, I think the BBC wardrobe department had a hand in this, or they are just recycling their poppies, in which case, shame on them.

[Mary Chambers]

I wear a white one.

[Mr Pee]

Aaah yes time for mr P to reappear with his annual rant about how anyone who doesn't wear one is a traitor and should be put in the stocks

Anyone who doesn't wear a poppy is a traitor and should be put in the stocks.

[Flay]

Poppy sellers are not authorised to take to the streets before the first week in November, I think the BBC wardrobe department had a hand in this, or they are just recycling their poppies, in which case, shame on them.

But the poppy appeal has just been launched:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20069373

They go on sale on Saturday

[Anna]

But the poppy appeal has just been launched:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20069373

Indeed it has, but Poppy Sellers cannot take to the streets until first week of November (I was a poppy seller last year for the first time) because that is the only time they are licensed to collect.

[VodkaDilc]

But the poppy appeal has just been launched:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20069373

They go on sale on Saturday

Then why are some MPs already wearing them? Stolen? Another scandal?

And to quote the pedantic Headmaster I worked for in the past, "You do not BUY a poppy; you make a donation and receive a poppy as a token". Not saying I agree - just quoting the great man.

[vinteuil]

I have seen quite a few people in the streets here wearing poppies since last Saturday. But then - I do live a couple of hundred yards from one of the back entrances to the BBC Television Centre

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Poppy Sellers cannot take to the streets until first week of November

Gosh, she was given a particularly harsh ASBO, wasn't she!

[amateur51]

Gosh, she was given a particularly harsh ASBO, wasn't she!