FIFA banning poppies

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Indeed.

If the medals used for fraudulent purposes there are existing laws about gaining money under false pretences.

But these politicians are calling it the "Walter Mitty" law and want the type of pathetic person you refer to put in jail for wearing a medal, even he ain't trying to defraud money from someone.

"Contemptible fantasists" is the term one of the people lobbying to make this a law used for them.

And military medals aren't only awarded for gallantry or heroics......most the ones you see are campaign medals.

Where will that leave the Queen when she dresses up for Trooping the Colour

Well she's not saying she's a soldier when she's wearing that stuff is she?

It's heavily implied that she's wearing them as part of the ceremony because the ceremony dictates that she wears them, not because she's a current or former soldier. It's the Queen, we all know who she is and she isn't claiming to be something she's not

Bit different from some loser sticking on a couple of medals to impress the grannies at the local village fete isn't it?

I mean, I'm not a soldier, couldn't be one and would never want to be one. But if I was and someone else was pretending they were and were wearing medals they didn't earn, I reckon I'd be pretty wound up over it in all honesty

Not sure we need a whole new law for it like, but I definitely think it's scummy behaviour

 

[Khalekan]

Well she's not saying she's a soldier when she's wearing that stuff is she?

It's heavily implied that she's wearing them as part of the ceremony because the ceremony dictates that she wears them, not because she's a current or former soldier. It's the Queen, we all know who she is and she isn't claiming to be something she's not

Bit different from some loser sticking on a couple of medals to impress the grannies at the local village fete isn't it?

I mean, I'm not a soldier, couldn't be one and would never want to be one. But if I was and someone else was pretending they were and were wearing medals they didn't earn, I reckon I'd be pretty wound up over it in all honesty

Not sure we need a whole new law for it like, but I definitely think it's scummy behaviour

The Queen remark was tongue in cheek, Mikey

Lighten up....it's Friday

 

[summerisle]

Meanwhile in the real world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38157099

Investigators have carried out further house searches as part of a widening probe into bribery allegations over the awarding of the 2006 World Cup to Germany, Swiss prosecutors say.

The inquiry is centred on the 2006 World Cup organising committee which includes former Germany captain Franz Beckenbauer, who has denied corruption.

It has now been broadened to include former senior Fifa official Urs Linsi.

German media reports say that a slush fund was set up to buy Fifa votes.

The inquiry centres on four people - including Mr Beckenbauer - who were part of the German bid.

Franz Beckenbauer has denied deliberate wrongdoing in relation to Germany being awarded the 2006 World Cup

Investigators have been especially concerned about a payment of about 10m Swiss Francs ($9.8m; £7.9m) to Fifa in 2005.

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"The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland confirms that on 23 November 2016 it conducted house searches with the support of the Federal Office of Police [fedpol] at various locations in the German-speaking part of Switzerland," the OAG said in a statement.

The OAG began its investigation last year into allegations that four members of the 2006 World Cup organising committee were involved in fraud and money laundering.

On Wednesday prosecutors announced they were also investigating Mr Linsi, who served as Fifa's secretary general between 2002 and 2007.

The case first made the headlines in October 2015, when German news magazine Der Spiegel accused Germany of using the secret slush fund to buy Fifa votes in support of its bid to host the 2006 World Cup.

The money allegedly came from the late Robert Louis-Dreyfus, who in 2000 was head of German sportswear giant Adidas. It was allegedly provided at the request of Mr Beckenbauer, who led the committee seeking to secure Germany's right to host the event.

Mr Beckenbauer previously admitted to making errors in relation to the bid but has denied deliberate wrongdoing.

A separate report into alleged irregularities over awarding the World Cup to Germany in 2006 was published in March by the German Football Association.

It said that while there was no evidence of Germany paying Fifa members in return for votes, payments were made to at least one former Fifa official through a complicated network of bank accounts.

 

[Number_25]

It's a sad indictment of the state of our countries current nationalistic mentality that we're getting all hot and bothered about putting a few poppies on a football kit.

 

[Khalekan]

It's a sad indictment of the state of our countries current nationalistic mentality that we're getting all hot and bothered about putting a few poppies on a football kit.

To be fair, it is more an issue the right wing press, opportunistic M.P.s looking for a soundbite and keyboard warriors in their bunkers are ranting on about.

I have not heard the topic discussed at all by the man on the Aigburth omnibus