[Daley Mayle]

Ah, the season of mist and poppy story fruitfulness.

Points will be scored for spotting:

1. Royal Legion volunteer moved on by jobsworth. Extra points if jobsworth has a foreign connection.

2. BBC news presenters wear poppy too early/too late

3. A news presenter won't wear one.

4. A politician doesn't wear one.

5. A politician wears one but guess who paid for it?

6. An ethnic won't wear one because of religious reasons

7. X-Factor judge wears an unfeasibly expensive poppy

8. Are poppies made in a leaking tin hut in Mumbai by blind orphans earning a dollar a month?

9. Are white poppies the new red poppy asks Liz Jones.

10. Poppy fascism

11. Has Poppy Day lost its appeal?

[Fflaps]

And of course:

12. A Muslim allegedly burns one and only gets a small fine.

[Big Arnold]

A policeman talking about the Jo Yeates murder on the BBC 10pm News was wearing a poppy. No points for the first poppy sighting?

[Abernathy]

A policeman talking about the Jo Yeates murder on the BBC 10pm News was wearing a poppy. No points for the first poppy sighting?

Nope. Everybody on Question Time was wearing one, I think.

[davidjay]

A policeman talking about the Jo Yeates murder on the BBC 10pm News was wearing a poppy. No points for the first poppy sighting?

Nope. Everybody on Question Time was wearing one, I think.

Typical of the lefty BBC.

[Gourami]

I don't know if Jo Swinson was. It might have been camouflaged with her outfit but I spotted on on every other guest. Dimbleby had a ritzy four-leaf clover affair. A few in the audience too.

[Big Arnold]

13) XXX employees forbidden to wear poppies at work.

Poundland backs down over poppy ban

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First point to me.

[Big Arnold]

Poppy-burning Muslims plan new 'hell for heroes' demonstration on November 11

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[Winegums]

Thing is, poppy burning is such a guaranteed headline-grabber that any group of religious fringe nutters who want to get noticed will leap on it.

[davidjay]

Choudary might be a complete arsehole and best ignored, but he 's right when he says there's a difference between the dead of the two world wars and the 'political football' of Afghanistan and Iraq.

[Messianic Trees]

David Cameron has let it be known that he spent £10 on his poppy.

[bluebellnutter]

That's millionaire Prime Minister David Cameron.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I just spent £20 on a wreath. Must be my gold-plated pension...

[Carlos The Badger]

David Cameron has let it be known that he spent £10 on his poppy.

And I bet he puts in an expense claim for it. Snouts in the trough, all of them.

Signed
The Daily Mail

[Gourami]

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Britain's oldest Remembrance Poppy goes on show to the public... 95 years after it was first picked