Veterans and gay rights campaigners blast £8 Poppy Appeal badge with Pride flag attached

VETERANS and cheery rights campaigners blasted the Royal British Legion yesterday — aft it released an £8 Poppy Appeal badge with a arguable “Progress Pride” emblem attached.

Furious groups accused the Legion of making a “woke” motion by coupling the world-famous reddish poppy with the multi-coloured symbol.

The flag, which references binary, intersex and trans communities and “marginalised groups”, was chosen alternatively of the accepted rainbow flag, a awesome for homosexual people for decades.

But 1 professional blasted: “It has thing to bash with Remembrance Day. The poppy badge was already inclusive.”

Another said: “The poppy represents everyone who has made the eventual sacrifice and doesn’t request tampering with.”

Former Royal Marine sergeant large and Falklands seasoned Jeff Williams, 67, from Birmingham, added: “Wearing the poppy is astir remembering each those who fought irrespective of gender, race and sexuality — it is not a governmental gesture.

“This is conscionable different pointless and profoundly violative workout successful wokeism.”

Kate Barker, of cheery rights radical LGB Alliance, insisted: “The Progress Pride emblem represents gays and lesbians being pushed retired of their ain question by proponents of sex individuality ideology.”

Caroline Paige, of Fighting with Pride, added: “This is not disrespecting oregon replacing the poppy. This is astir LGBTQ veterans being seen and acknowledged.”

A Royal British Legion spokesperson said: “We consulted LGBTQIA+ members of the Armed Forces community, our LGBTQIA+ unit web and rank branch, and outer partners earlier adopting the Intersex Inclusive emblem for the badge.

“It’s wide recognised arsenic the astir inclusive awesome for intersexual predisposition and sex identity.”