A POPPY-selling pensioner has caused outrage among members of the Royal British Legion and his own political party for a message on a wreath at Worcester Cathedral.
"Distasteful, disrespectful and inappropriate" are just some the words senior figures at the RBL and Worcester & District UK Independence Party branch have described 75-year-old John Butterfield’s message which read: “Thank you for our freedom.
"We are having to fight another war against the EU cesspit that traitors have sold us into”.
Mr Butterfield, of St John’s, Worcester, who is a member of the RBL’s St John’s and Hallow branch and is also secretary of UKIP’s Worcester branch, said his personal message was not meant to be disrespectful – especially as his father Jack, fought in the Battle of the Somme.
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