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Boycott TK Maxx
This really disgusts me. It seems not everyone shares the Northern Irish Magyar's respect for those who died to win the freedom we enjoy today. Retail chain TK Maxx banned staff in Northern Ireland from wearing poppies this year alleging they were a "political symbol". The ban doesn't apply to the mainland.
Apparently something similar happened to someone working for B&Q at the predominantly nationalist Apollo call centre on Boucher Road. The gentleman was allegedly asked to remove his poppy, but refused. I had no problems with my poppy, but then again mine was on my coat which I didn't wear whilst in work, rather keeping it beside me. Only on the Sunday did I actually wear the poppy throughout the working day. One thing's for sure though, had I been asked to remove it I'd have replied "On what grounds?" - and they better have had a better (truer) reason than "It's a political symbol." (Update: Please see this comment for another view on the call centre).
Follow up:
It's amazing the numbers of people from both sides who fought in the wars, not to mention the numbers from the then Free State who went so far as to join the foreign British army to fight in World War 2. Those men risked not only their lives but alienation on their return. The only way to be offended by the remembering of those men is if you're actually looking to be offended.
So I won't be going to TK Maxx any time soon, and if I can possibly avoid it, I won't be buying anything from B&Q either. I'm not sure I could conscience giving money to any firm who had shown such utter contempt for the brave war dead, to whom we owe so much.