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Security is being provided for young poppy sellers in Bradford this year after some were attacked last year – the first such incidents in the British Legion’s history.

Young Army cadets will have chaperones to protect them from repeats of the abuse some suffered while collecting for the charity.

The volunteers who fundraise tirelessly for the Legion’s annual appeal were sickened by the abuse and assaults suffered by some of their sellers.

Last year the Telegraph & Argus reported how Bethany Holmes, then 13, of the Allerton Army Cadet Force, was one of three teenagers selling remembrance poppies outside The Range store in Girlington, Bradford, when a group of youths began giving the sellers “abuse”.

Her mum Christine said one of them took a poppy from the box, spat on it and tried to give it to her daughter, before spitting at her three times, twice on her jacket and once on her cheek.

rayznack wrote:The comments to the story are also worth reading.

I too am glad to have left Bradford - it is a total sh1th0le. However, it wasn't the Asian residents I had a problem with, it was the white ones. No Asian has ever bullied me, beat me up, raped me, burgled me, called me nasty names, spat at me, tortured my animals or dumped clapped out bangers in my garden.
And it wasn't Asian people who were bitter, spiteful, hateful, nasty, resentful, ignorant & spat out revolting racism at every turn.
I am so glad to have left - anywhere that produces 3 serial killers can't be a good place to live.

Absolutely disgraceful that its come to this. Utterly abhorrent behaviour by those animals. But as Andy2010 says, no-one will have dared say a word for fear of being accused of racism which in turn would upset "the community."
Staggered the T&A has even allowed posts on this story given we all know that the offenders were the feral Asian youth who blight this once great city.”

Nobody would dare come to the aid of these poppy sellers because they know that if they did there would be dozens of feral asian youths around them within minutes. Girlington is not a safe place anymore and the same can be said for most of Bradford. You don't have to travel far away to see how far Bradford has sunk, and it is sinking further. I can't wait to get out and forget this hole”

The reason no one will have intervened is because if they had they would have been accused of racism and would have been up in court quicker than Lance Armstrong could have cycled to the Chemist”

shafique wrote:Hmm - no wonder the article is from a local paper and not a national newspaper


Cheers,
Shafique

In separate incidents last year yobs also hurled abuse at two Asian girl cadets and two other sellers were sworn at in the city centre.

BMreformed wrote:I had to scroll down a bit to find that post of Shafiques. I nearly gave myself RSI