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DP’s new football flag has given me the ick!

266 replies

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 12:55

DP is a big football fan and they have been promoted so he is excited for the new season to start. He goes with a group of 5/6 mates and they always have a flag to take to away matches. To mark their promotion, they’ve ordered a new one.

DP took delivery of it yesterday. It is an England flag with the club badge on it. They have added the text ‘On the charge with Farage’ 😩

Instant ick…am I overreacting!?

OP posts:
Zellycat · 27/07/2025 23:52

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:46

Some people are gobsmackingly gullible, aren’t they?

True elites would not consider his education “public school”, nor did he attend Uni. Nothing about his pedigree is elite.

He has done well for himself despite not having elite education,

Sorry to disappoint.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:50

MasterBeth · 26/07/2025 20:09

He is in with cunts.

Oh yes.

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:49

PandoraSocks · 26/07/2025 10:45

You are supporting a post full of lies. Lucy Connolly did not recieve a greater sentence than a convicted rapist. Read the sentencing guidelines. A few examples:

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/operation-stovewood-seven-men-jailed-total-106-years-sexually-abusing-two-young-girls

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89g293zj2ko.amp

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Don’t bamboozle them with fact ….

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:46

CurlewKate · 26/07/2025 07:31

I love the idea that public school educated ex banker career politician Farage is somehow not a member of the elite….

Edited

Some people are gobsmackingly gullible, aren’t they?

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:39

Zellycat · 25/07/2025 14:45

I thought the only place Britain’s could display a Union Jack flag without being considered racist was football !

IMO no issue with flag - Brazilians can flag all they like, Ukrainians can flag, Americans can flag, Ireland can flag etc etc…. Tell me why showing national pride with a flag is racism in UK?

Mini cars - have the flag in tail lights
Tourist shops packed with flags on stuff
etc

Who told you Farage was racist? Why? Is he more racist than Starmer? How?

Who told you Farage was racist?

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MrsSkylerWhite · 27/07/2025 23:36

amylou8 · 25/07/2025 13:57

Well he's going to be our next PM so you might as well get used to it now 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

He really isn’t.

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 23:33

Doubt what? That my father fought in the second world war or that he would have despised Farage and Reform? Both of those statements are true.

I know who William the first was. I don't know what you mean by "William the firsts" in your now (thankfully) deleted post.

llizzie · 27/07/2025 23:14

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 20:06

You only have to find someone who fought in the second world war to know how wrong you are

My father fought in the second world war. He would be appalled by Farage and Reform.

Eta: @llizzie what exactly are "William the Firsts?"

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I doubt that.

You don't know who William the first was?

DuncinToffee · 27/07/2025 20:09

You only have to look at the England teams or any football team to celebrate the cultural diversity of this country

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 20:06

You only have to find someone who fought in the second world war to know how wrong you are

My father fought in the second world war. He would be appalled by Farage and Reform.

Eta: @llizzie what exactly are "William the Firsts?"

llizzie · 27/07/2025 20:05

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

Read my post.

llizzie · 27/07/2025 19:59

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Darls3000 · 27/07/2025 14:44

Does it have swastikas on it too?

TreatTreat · 27/07/2025 13:54

SeaShellsSanctuary1 · 25/07/2025 13:41

At least point out bare minimum that Farage should be pronounced Faridge as in Garage so it makes no sense anyway

But it doesn't in Nigel's case.

DuncinToffee · 27/07/2025 13:50

It's not about the flag, it's about the text.

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:17

derxa · 26/07/2025 22:33

There’s always a Palestine flag flown at Celtic matches. Can’t say I’m keen. DH is a super fan but doesn’t really like it either.

You've got to be quite a shitty person not to care about Gaza.

Snakebite61 · 27/07/2025 13:16

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 12:55

DP is a big football fan and they have been promoted so he is excited for the new season to start. He goes with a group of 5/6 mates and they always have a flag to take to away matches. To mark their promotion, they’ve ordered a new one.

DP took delivery of it yesterday. It is an England flag with the club badge on it. They have added the text ‘On the charge with Farage’ 😩

Instant ick…am I overreacting!?

Your husband and his friends are obviously simple minded.
Only a person full of hate and ignorance would support farage.

Followthebouncingthumb · 27/07/2025 11:57

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 01:47

You need to educate yourself on what facisism is. You are demeaning and minimising the suffering of those that have lived and suffered under a facist regime. Do you genuinely thing that Farage government will be shooting 200 women and children on the banks of the Danube Thames, or disappearing political opponents or executing military leaders. Get a fecking grip.

Thank you for your advice. I am very well aware of what Facism is, having had family members who were victims of it and in more modern times having lived half my life under a neo facist leader in a different country. I am not suggesting Fuckface Farage will be doing something so awful, but his ideology echoes that of facism and it's bloody dangerous and scary. Anyone who votes for him really needs to question and educate themselves.

cardibach · 27/07/2025 09:46

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 02:01

Referencing back to Rivers of Blood Speach. One of the two speeches most misquoted and taken out of context to support political aims, along with Mrs Thatcher's 'no society' speach. I have no agenda, but both,in their entirety are easily available to find. Neither is as often portrayed. Worth actually reading them sometime.

Maybe so - but a) I doubt Farage has read it, b) few of his supporters will have read it and c) he meant it to be taken as it sounds, not in context (it’s still distinctly ‘off’ in context).

cardibach · 27/07/2025 09:44

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:46

chat gpt?

Alll accurate. None of them were news to me as I’ve seen them in the media over the years.

cardibach · 27/07/2025 09:43

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:38

We grant more people asylum than France. They may let more make claims but we grant more.

Not the figures I’ve seen. But still, even if you are correct, could that be because it’s harder to get here so people don’t bother if they know they have no chance? We only grant it to people entitled.

cardibach · 27/07/2025 09:41

Kettledodger · 26/07/2025 22:01

”on the charge with Farage” is in the op and the ick that gave. That is what I was referring to. Not quite sure of the banned bit?

TheFA ban political slogans on flags. It’s been discussed a lot on the thread.

PandoraSocks · 27/07/2025 09:29

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 02:12

Stop calling Reform and those you don't agree with facist or a dacist party. Pause a minute. Go to Budapest. Stand at the side of the Danube where the shoes of children and parents shot in the head and thrown into the river by facists are replicated in Brass, down to the size of each child's shoe. Come back to the UK with an understanding of what facisim is and stop labeling people that have different political views to you as comparable to regimes that kill children and throw them into a river.
Then carry on the debate.

Reform is a racist party.

I think the people shot and thrown in the Danube might have something to say about the importance of calling out and acting against racists and fascists, rather than tiptoeing around them.

Kidznurse · 27/07/2025 07:59

For goodness sake it’d be seperate beds if I thought he was a Labour voter.

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 02:12

Stop calling Reform and those you don't agree with facist or a dacist party. Pause a minute. Go to Budapest. Stand at the side of the Danube where the shoes of children and parents shot in the head and thrown into the river by facists are replicated in Brass, down to the size of each child's shoe. Come back to the UK with an understanding of what facisim is and stop labeling people that have different political views to you as comparable to regimes that kill children and throw them into a river.
Then carry on the debate.

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