Red Arrows Banned From 2012 London Olympics

[schuee]

Could not beleive this when I read it, the Red Arrows have been banned from the 2012 London Olympics, for being too BRITISH  :shock:  :shock:

http://www.petition.co.uk/let_the_red_arrows_perform_at_the_2012_london_olympics

You can sign this petition, what is this country coming to  

[Bishops Finger]

Oooh goody does that mean a flypast of Heinkel 111's n Dorniers...oh hang on   that was stopped in 1940....

[martha focker]

to british there is probably some little [!Expletive Deleted!] sitting at a desk somewhere who thought of this. i mean the red arrows, are a representation of britain and what it is. god i hate some people

[narked]

Signed. The idiots in power need to come to the realisation that it is OUR culture that is important here, not worrying about upsetting other nations.

Any other host nation would PROUDLY put on a show of their own, without fear of upsetting anyone. It's about time we did the same. People choose to come here, so they can do so willing to accept our ways.

[barnhill4x4]

What a load of tripe!
  This country is no ours anymore!

[lambert]

I think if i were section commander for the red arrows i'd have a 'training' flight happen to pass over the opening ceremony just out of badness :twisted:

[SteveGoodz]

Signed. I'm getting really fed up with the way our so-called leaders continually defer to other races and nations at the expense of the people who elect them and pay their (vastly overheated) salaries and pensions.

[Wolfie]

Have they?

Anyone got any documentary evidence that this has happened?

I have looked about and can't find anything on either the Red Arrows or 2012 Olympics websites. In fact the only thing that I can find that is in any way an official comment on this is at http://the2008olympics.blogspot.com/2007/09/red-arrows-banned.html

The Red Arrows spokesman Rachel Huxford said:

"We have had no discussions about the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics whatsoever.

We are still planning our 2008 season at this stage and that is a long way off. We understand that no decision has yet been made about the ceremony.

We performed when London won its Olympic bid in 2005 after we received a standard request from the Olympic organisers."

[Thrasher]

Hmmm considering junk (amusing junk however) like this can be found on that site ... http://www.petition.co.uk/hamland

I'm wondering about the validity of it all too ....

[Lord Shagg-Pyle]

Perhaps they should do a complete turn round and get the Battle of Britain flight to fly over aswell, get HMS Ark Royal to sail up the Thames and get the Red Devils Parachute Display Team to drop in, just to get up the noses of all our European partners!
What will be the alternative?
A display of bending over backwards and sticking their heads up their own arses by the 1938 Munich Appeasement Re-enactment Society?
A formation ''running away while waving white flags' by the French Military?
A 'Lets sit down and have a peace humming sit in' by the All States Hippy Relay Team?
 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

[L90OOK]

Perhaps they should do a complete turn round and get the Battle of Britain flight to fly over aswell, get HMS Ark Royal to sail up the Thames and get the Red Devils Parachute Display Team to drop in, just to get up the noses of all our European partners!
What will be the alternative?
A display of bending over backwards and sticking their heads up their own arses by the 1938 Munich Appeasement Re-enactment Society?
A formation ''running away while waving white flags' by the French Military?
A 'Lets sit down and have a peace humming sit in' by the All States Hippy Relay Team?
 :roll:  :roll:  :roll:

 :lol:  
Let's start a civil war & put the great back into GREAT BRITAIN!  

[Lucy1978]

perhaps they're just not 'London' enough, after all it is london (sic) 2012 not Britain 2012

[Sider]

I bet Thrasher and Wolfie are now feeling like the proverbial preacher in the desert  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

Were it true (which according to all evidence it is not) it would be an outrage.

Then again, shall I remind you what happened on the celebrations of Trafalgar????

Somehow, some harebrained idiot got it in his mind that we Spaniards could take offence if the battle was re-enacted as the British Fleet against the combined Spanish and French.

Why on earth should I, I ask you, should I take offence for a nation celebrating military feats of its past????

Or maybe I am not progressive enough (or liberal enough) to understand that the appropriate course of action is to read every single move of every single brit as a mortal offence to my national pride.

Say, how about we round up all the PC brigadists and we send them over to Burma, gift wrapped??

[schuee]

Say, how about we round up all the PC brigadists and we send them over to Burma, gift wrapped??

Sounds a great idea  :lol:  :lol:

[Hobnailkelly]

The only nationalities that could be offended are the ones we were at war with recently:  Germany, Japan, North Korea, Argentina and a couple of middle eastern countries.   Much of the rest of the world would not be competing if it wasn't for the likes of the RAF etc.  
They should all be as proud as we are!

[Ralph]

I think that this country will suffer a civil war in the future, how far away i wouldnt like to say.
 It will probably start with Bradistan trying to take over a neighbouring city and just snowball on from there.
We should vote in the BNP to run this country for a few years to clean it up a bit.

[Hobnailkelly]

I think that this country will suffer a civil war in the future, how far away i wouldnt like to say.
 It will probably start with Bradistan trying to take over a neighbouring city and just snowball on from there.
We should vote in the BNP to run this country for a few years to clean it up a bit.

Neighbouring cities are just as bad ...

[Ralph]

Right thats it I vow to sleep with as many blonde blue eyed women as i can!!!!

[Mighty_zuke]

Right thats it I vow to sleep with as many blonde blue eyed women as i can!!!!

LOL, I'll go for that too!

Any offers?  :D

[Sider]

The only nationalities that could be offended are the ones we were at war with recently:  Germany, Japan, North Korea, Argentina and a couple of middle eastern countries.   Much of the rest of the world would not be competing if it wasn't for the likes of the RAF etc.  
They should all be as proud as we are!

Wrong. Out of that list, I refuse to accept Germany. They are not too bad at laughing at themselves.

As for the rest:
 Argentina may still be a tad sore, but then they are still sore with Spain, and they got independence 200 odd years ago.
 North Korea, in all honesty, could buy themselves twopence of desert and practice sweeping, for what I care.
 Japan was never involved in a war (according to their revisionists, ergo no reason to take offence.
 Middle Eastern countries where democracy is the form of government won't care, and the others can follow North Korea's example.

Now, regarding Ralph's comment, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he is joking, although what a bad joke it is, is beyond comment.