Remembrance Day Poppies

WHAT IDIOT DID THIS!

‘The Royal British Legion has been banned from selling poppies in a city centre in the run-up to Remembrance Sunday because of council red tape.

The charity is forbidden from collecting in parts of Birmingham in the days before November 13 because other charities were granted a license to do so first.

Birmingham City Council has changed its application system to allow only one charity to collect in any street at once, meaning the day before Remembrance Sunday there will be no poppy sellers in the city.’ Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037611/RBL-poppy-sellers-banned-city-streets-council-red-tape.html#ixzz1Y1cTZBfi

It is ridiculous that only one charity can collect at any one time in the first place, but how the heck could anyone NOT think that, given this ruling, that the only one that should be collecting in the days approaching Remembrance Day should absolutely and unequivocally be The Poppy Appeal!

I get the fact that they were refused permission for the 12th (The legion is also not permitted to collect anywhere in the city on November 12 as 'Birmingham Marrow on behalf of The Anthony Nolan Trust' has booked the slot Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2037611/RBL-poppy-sellers-banned-city-streets-council-red-tape.html#ixzz1Y1ditF7O) after all it does seem reasonable to expect that people would have bought their poppies by then, but to not be allowed to sell them on the 11th is unbelievable.

Get real Birmingham City Council!