The Red Arrows display team have been dropped from The London Olympics opening ceremony plans in 2012 because it's felt they may "offend" some countries regarding their military connections.They've proudly performed over 4000 displays worldwide over the years impecably representing Great Britain and this was to be one of their crowning moments, the squadron are evidently gutted, bewildered and saddened by this unexpected turn of events.Yeah I bet they are!
There is one of those official Government petetions you can sign in protest at this decision.
I'm proud to say I've just signed it....what the fook is this country coming to.
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The sooner these left wing tree-huggers f**k off the better
Totally agree with you.....don't get me started on the way the Ghurkas arte being treated...
This is now something like the 12th time I've been told of this ban and told to go and sign the petition and obviously not one of the people who have told me this have bothered to do even the most basic fact checking or even read the petition they are encouraging me to sign!
Just to clear things up, here's the actual text, right at the top of the petition:
"This allegation is not true. The Government has not banned the Red Arrows from the London 2012 Olympic Games. The organising committee of London 2012 will decide what to include in the Opening Ceremony and other celebrations - but with almost five years to go, decisions are yet to be made on what these will look like.
And of course the Red Arrows played a memorable role in the celebrations for 2012, when they flew over Trafalgar Square to mark London winning the Games."
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/RedArrows2012/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/epetition_broadband/
"The most popular petition right now is "Allow the Red Arrows to Fly at the 2012 Olympics" which has been signed by a staggering 441,383 people - this despite the government making clear that it has not "banned" them and it is a decision that the organising committee will make nearer the time."
sign on and on and on and on.
There does seem to be 'something' in it though, as a decision has 'yet to be made'....so it may well help to sway the organisation commities decision if there were indeed some intial dissenters.
and for background, the Red Arrows where used at the 2004 Torch Relay, were used in 2005 when London won the bid, and will probably appear in 2012.
OK then, in that case I'm still proud to say I have signed it.
Language Timothy!!!!!!!!!
Christ almighty, you have to get things so god damn spot on for some folk,though I'm sure you got the gist of what I meant mate!
And may I ask just how it was that you and one or two others first heard of this petition and how you subsequently learn't that it's 'supposedly' a not genuine subject matter, you have an advantage over me in that you got the info from somewhere, I unfortunately didn't, so there's no need to diss me and half a million others 'less fortunate' than yourself is there; I only heard about it today as a matter of fact.
Anyway, as I said, if there are some who do want to drop them from any 'proposed future plans' (careful how you phrase it SoundAs) and have expressed those misgivings,then this petition may just make them think twice...so not neccessarily a wasted exercise is it?
PS..I'm definately NOT a Sun reader!
Did you bother to google it to see whether it's true or false - which is how I found out? If you had done you'd have discovered pretty quickly that the story has zero merit, plus it has been on here at least once before.
On that don't get defensive because you are too lazy to do a bit of independent research - something I'd have expected from someone who claims not to be a Sun reader...
For the record I didnt know it wasnt a hoax. Looks like myself, 500k people + a fair few on here arent the clever clogs that you are. Give yourself a badge
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Nope I didn't either but I googled the story - which only took a few moments as it seemed a bit ridiculous and found tons of leads that debunked the story. Surely you know better than to believe something without evidence?
I think it says more about the ability of newpapers not to check their sources properly before publishing. But what do you make of the 59.5 million people (or so) who didn't fall for it?
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BTW Dan you don't believe all those Nigerian and phishing scam e-mails do you?
I suspect they haven't signed the petition through 1) lack of internet access, 2) ignorance of it's existence (possibly because of 1) ) 3) inertia or 4) they hate Great Britain as much as the Government appears to.
Imagine the UK government worrying about upsetting all those foreign regimes that they sell arms to with an RAF display team. Shocking.
They're much more likely to have used the event as 'Red Square Parade' type of trade exhibition for UK military exports!
Indeed. Youre quite right and why I said you were such a clever clogs
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Hmmm, so someone who hasn't signed a petition for an obviously made-up story has done so because they hate Great Britain and/or don't have internet access, but not because they might have realised how moronic the story was in the first place, or because they might have done a couple of seconds of research to suss it out first...
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Thank you...I haven't lost faith in your mental acumen either...
Its alright BFR. You've made your point that youre more of a clever clogs than I am. Just leave it at that. Theres no need to drive the point home for a 2nd time with me.
LOL! Oh dear......