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

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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:
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.

llizzie · 27/07/2025 01:54

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:38

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

Now councils are being told to buy up empty homes for the immigrants instead of hotels.

The vast majority of empty homes at the moment are unsold new builds - look them up online. People are desperately trying to save for the deposit, now they will be 'gazumped' but not by a higher bidder, by the local council on whose lists are hundreds of homeless people who have been homeless a lot longer than the 'William the Firsts' invaders.

llizzie · 27/07/2025 01:51

NormasArse · 26/07/2025 21:15

I fucking hope not.

Why?

ClareBlue · 27/07/2025 01:47

Followthebouncingthumb · 25/07/2025 13:06

He's promoting Facism and Dictatorships. It used to be called something else historically.

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.

TheGrimSmile · 27/07/2025 01:39

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 14:01

He says it’s light hearted and will ‘upset all the right people’ so between them they found the idea hilarious.

Hopefully it doesn’t get in!

It's like those people who used to think Trump was "funny". Yeah, he's fucking hilarious. Your boyfriend is a dick.

TheGrimSmile · 27/07/2025 01:35

That'd be the end for me, I'm afraid.

JHound · 27/07/2025 00:00

Just…..why…..?

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:58

anytipswelcome · 25/07/2025 15:45

Here you go:

Praising Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech
Farage named Enoch Powell as one of his political heroes and said the “basic principle” behind Powell’s infamous anti-immigration speech was correct. That speech is widely condemned as one of the most racist in British political history, warning of violent consequences if immigration continued.

Saying he’d be uncomfortable living next to Romanians
In a 2014 interview, Farage said he would feel uncomfortable living next to Romanians. When asked why that would be different from, for example, Germans (like his wife), he replied, “You know the difference.” This was widely condemned as racially stereotyping an entire nationality.

Defending the use of a racial slur about Chinese people (I don’t want to write it here but it’s unfortunately a widely known one)
When a UKIP candidate used the racial slur “ch__ky,” Farage defended it, saying it was a term many British people used casually when going for Chinese food. His comments were condemned for downplaying and normalizing racist language.

Using the “Breaking Point” anti-immigration poster
During the Brexit campaign, Farage unveiled a poster showing a queue of non-white refugees with the slogan “Breaking Point.” The image was criticized as racist and compared to Nazi propaganda, as it implied that non-white immigrants were overwhelming Britain.

Japan hardly takes any asylum seekers. In 2023 they granted asylum to 303 people. Tokyo is over 95% Japanese. When you go to Tokyo and see that it is mostly just Japanese people are you disappointed?

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:46

anytipswelcome · 25/07/2025 15:45

Here you go:

Praising Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech
Farage named Enoch Powell as one of his political heroes and said the “basic principle” behind Powell’s infamous anti-immigration speech was correct. That speech is widely condemned as one of the most racist in British political history, warning of violent consequences if immigration continued.

Saying he’d be uncomfortable living next to Romanians
In a 2014 interview, Farage said he would feel uncomfortable living next to Romanians. When asked why that would be different from, for example, Germans (like his wife), he replied, “You know the difference.” This was widely condemned as racially stereotyping an entire nationality.

Defending the use of a racial slur about Chinese people (I don’t want to write it here but it’s unfortunately a widely known one)
When a UKIP candidate used the racial slur “ch__ky,” Farage defended it, saying it was a term many British people used casually when going for Chinese food. His comments were condemned for downplaying and normalizing racist language.

Using the “Breaking Point” anti-immigration poster
During the Brexit campaign, Farage unveiled a poster showing a queue of non-white refugees with the slogan “Breaking Point.” The image was criticized as racist and compared to Nazi propaganda, as it implied that non-white immigrants were overwhelming Britain.

chat gpt?

pineapplecrushed · 26/07/2025 23:38

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:47

We don’t have uncontrolled illegal immigration, so the rest is a bit moot.
If you mean t(we’re are more asylum seekers than you would like, say so, but it’s a pretty callous and racist thing to say. Plus we take fewer per capita than, for eg, France.
Edit: political elites? Are you including for eg Rayner and Streeting? You may want to look at their backgrounds if so.

Edited

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

derxa · 26/07/2025 22:33

EzLife · 26/07/2025 19:59

Why are so many people anti-English and seemingly despise the Flag of St. George?

Maybe a different reaction if it was a Palestine flag?

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.

Lucyccfc68 · 26/07/2025 22:17

HollyUpNorth · 25/07/2025 13:49

He says it will be fine to take in as stadiums only check the size of flags rather than the content.

Your DH is wrong. The ‘content’ on flags can be checked. My lad has been taking his flag to matches for years and 50% of the time it gets checked for the wording. Luckily he is not daft enough to have anything political written on it - just his team badge and name of our town.

If he ever takes it abroad to a match it will 100% be checked.

Middleagedspreadisreal · 26/07/2025 22:10

Burn it.

Kettledodger · 26/07/2025 22:01

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:08

What’s that got to do with a (banned) political slogan on a flag?

”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?

Welshyma · 26/07/2025 21:23

Ugh. Wanting people to know they’re bigots.

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:19

llizzie · 26/07/2025 21:10

My thoughts were also on a children's event, so I apologise for that, though it applies the same way.

If not a sponsorship slogan, what is it?

Just something they’ve decided to print on it. Maybe read the OP again. All the info is in there.

BurntBroccoli · 26/07/2025 21:17

EzLife · 26/07/2025 19:59

Why are so many people anti-English and seemingly despise the Flag of St. George?

Maybe a different reaction if it was a Palestine flag?

I hate what it’s associated with now. The far right have hi-jacked it.

NormasArse · 26/07/2025 21:15

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 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I fucking hope not.

llizzie · 26/07/2025 21:10

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:07

What on earth has this to do with sponsorship or children? The slogan isn’t a sponsorship slogan. The OP’s DP is presumably an adult.

My thoughts were also on a children's event, so I apologise for that, though it applies the same way.

If not a sponsorship slogan, what is it?

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:08

Kettledodger · 26/07/2025 21:03

You can have all the ick you want but you can not deny that Farage and Reform have a huge following dismiss it at your peril

What’s that got to do with a (banned) political slogan on a flag?

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:07

llizzie · 26/07/2025 21:00

You will have to grin and bear it for now, because the team is being sponsored, and young people need all the sponsorship they can get.

Are your objections more than your love for your child and seeing him happy?

There is sponsorship everywhere. You don't have to vote for them. Nor does the team manager.

Just make sure that at election times in your particular locality or in a general, that the Reform party registers the amount they spend on publicity, because there are limits at election times.

What on earth has this to do with sponsorship or children? The slogan isn’t a sponsorship slogan. The OP’s DP is presumably an adult.

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:05

EzLife · 26/07/2025 20:15

I raised an alternative situation and wondered about the likely response, AIBU for doing so?

When it’s nothing to do with the thread, yes. Start one about your unrelated£ idea if you want to discuss it.

cardibach · 26/07/2025 21:03

EzLife · 26/07/2025 19:59

Why are so many people anti-English and seemingly despise the Flag of St. George?

Maybe a different reaction if it was a Palestine flag?

Nobody objected to the flag, just the political slogan.
If people are wary of the England flag, though, it’s down to violent racist thugs waving it and giving it bad associations which is sad, in my (Welsh) opinion.

Kettledodger · 26/07/2025 21:03

You can have all the ick you want but you can not deny that Farage and Reform have a huge following dismiss it at your peril

llizzie · 26/07/2025 21:00

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!?

You will have to grin and bear it for now, because the team is being sponsored, and young people need all the sponsorship they can get.

Are your objections more than your love for your child and seeing him happy?

There is sponsorship everywhere. You don't have to vote for them. Nor does the team manager.

Just make sure that at election times in your particular locality or in a general, that the Reform party registers the amount they spend on publicity, because there are limits at election times.

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