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Royal Navy Veteran, Married, Father of 3 girls and a boy. Grandad to a boy and a girl.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

You just know that this will end up being weaponised and won’t be applied consistently.

[Daily Referendum @Daily_Ref]

I live in Gosport. Gosport is a Naval town and a lot of the local Weatherspoons customers are ex Navy, or people who have friends and relatives that have served in the Navy. This was was a huge mistake. I won't be using the place until a full and public apology is issued.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’ve never seen this happen before. A Wetherspoons in Gosport didn’t allow them in because they were wearing Remembrance poppies since it "could be political."

That is nonsense. The remembrance poppy is a well known apolitical symbol.

Not right at all.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Astounding Sunday Times investigation reveals new scandal in SNP’s Socialist Scotland:
800 NHS, central government, council and quango workers whose jobs no longer exist but remain on the public payroll because of the SNP’s ‘no public-sector redundancy’ policy.
Estimated cost of paying people to do nothing: £27m a year.
One NHS Highland worker has been receiving a full salary and benefits for 17 years despite not having a specific job.
The health board refused to say what the worker had been doing for almost two decades and how much they had been paid.
Likely cost to the taxpayer is expected to be far higher with several public bodies refusing to disclose salaries for hundreds of the workers awaiting redeployment.

[June Slater @juneslater17]

I think Tim Martin ( Wetherspoons) will not be pleased at this misunderstanding of what the poppy symbol means
It is NOT political
It's a symbol of when politics unites out of respect for the fallen

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Surely not true?

[Cllr George Madgwick @georgedmadgwick]

VETERANS wearing a Poppy are BANNED from from Wetherspoons

WOW. Manager of Gosport Wetherspoons states it’s ‘Company policy’ to not allow anyone in with a Remembrance Poppy on as it ‘could be political’

I can’t believe what I just heard from our nations biggest pub chain.

Veterans wearing a poppy are banned from Wetherspoons.

[James Dreyfus @DreyfusJames]

Poppies.

A symbol of remembrance.

Nothing remotely political.

Don’t want to wear one? Then don’t.

Put don’t penalise those who do.

This is peak absurdity.

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

I’ve never seen this happen before. A Wetherspoons in Gosport didn’t allow them in because they were wearing Remembrance poppies since it "could be political."

That is nonsense. The remembrance poppy is a well known apolitical symbol.

Not right at all.

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

🚨 National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell WAS NOT VETTED before getting the job - Telegraph. What on earth is going on in our country?

[Andrew Gilligan @mragilligan]

Jonathan Powell was not vetted before being appointed National Security Adviser, we can report.
https://t.co/LgfyXajROJ

[Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK]

When Reform's letters to postal voters in Portsmouth were ready to go out, two undercover ITV reporters were personally responsible for almost two hundred of them in the ward of Drayton and Farlington.

Reform lost Drayton and Farlington by 24 votes.

The same two men were responsible for delivering leaflets to half the ward of Baffins.

Reform lost Baffins by 85 votes.

These were men whose purpose was to infiltrate Reform UK and damage it.

In two wards decided by a few dozen votes, we believe there are reasonable grounds to conclude that ITV altered the result of British elections.

There is no precedent for this.

It is certainly not journalism.

We believe it to be criminal.

We will hold ITV and its activists to account.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

As many of us have suspected for a very long time

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The British police are causing me a great deal of anxiety and distress

Could someone please arrest them ?

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

We should be dubious of people who demand respect for their opinions, but who have no respect for ours

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Thank heaven for small mercies. The UK government has — at last — granted consent for gas to be produced from the Jackdaw gas field. Now, what about Rosebank?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

How… if it’s illegal are we doing this?

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

France riots: ‘ultra-left militant’ accused of torching Limoges town hall. At some point even the mainstream media will have to identify where the hate, destruction & erosion of our societies is coming from

https://t.co/RMYUHCJwDO

[Chris Rose @ArchRose90]

He shouldn’t be working in the NHS or living in the UK.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Just tried again to comment on a judge's sentencing

I am prevented from registering my comment

So I am being censored

I can hardly believe this is happening in Britain

[Sharron Davies HoL MBE @sharrond62]

Stop paying your subs ladies they have no intention of standing up for you