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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:
ConcernedOfClapham · 25/07/2025 19:57

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 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

OP’s DH??? !!! 😧

Truly, you are a seer 🫡

BurntBroccoli · 25/07/2025 19:57

CitizenZ · 25/07/2025 14:17

Get him to change the slogan to: "At the match, full of passion, proper proud, to be a gammon!"

Then LTB.

😁🤣😁

Brendahollowayreconsider · 25/07/2025 19:55

Plastic thugs wearing stone island no doubt
80s /90s were dangerous on the terraces National Front,BNP ,C18 all active.
Do not want a return to the bad old days.

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:54

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:51

Because it’s a bit odd to have a political slogan (banned by the FA) on a flag for supporting his team. It’s a strange decision. An explanation might clarify.

Have you see the football flags with ‘No surrender’ on them?

Are you aware of the political implications of that as the historical ones too?

Are you aware many football clubs have closely been linked with political parties and movements since their inception?

Just because it’s not a band of politics we like, we cannot forget what’s gone on since the beginning.

Some players and clubs don’t even observe Remembrance Day but get a free pass in doing so.

BurntBroccoli · 25/07/2025 19:54

Definitely given me the ick just reading that… 🤢🤢🤢

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:53

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:51

Because it’s a bit odd to have a political slogan (banned by the FA) on a flag for supporting his team. It’s a strange decision. An explanation might clarify.

As has been pointed out I suspect he'll have it removed if he tries to enter the stadium with it.

flaskofcoffee · 25/07/2025 19:52

NetballHoop · 25/07/2025 13:32

Supporting either Farage or Corbyn would be grounds for divorce in my household.

Don’t want to derail the thread, and totally a genuine question. But why Corbyn? I absolutely detest Farage but isn’t Corbyn left wing so quite the opposite? Just wondering why you’d put them together?

Oh, and I totally agree with supporting Farage being grounds for divorce!

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:52

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:51

LMFAO

Where did I state that in my original post.

I love how that is all you have, fabrications and labels because you have nothing sensible to contribute to the debate.

I asked whether you meant asylum seekers when you talked about illegal immigration. That’s all. What did you mean?

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:51

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:50

If your point wasn’t that you don’t like desperate people claiming asylum perfectly legally, then yes, that’s a bit racist. I didn’t say anything about thuggery.

LMFAO

Where did I state that in my original post.

I love how that is all you have, fabrications and labels because you have nothing sensible to contribute to the debate.

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:51

KnittyNell · 25/07/2025 19:49

Why should he?

Because it’s a bit odd to have a political slogan (banned by the FA) on a flag for supporting his team. It’s a strange decision. An explanation might clarify.

Laura95167 · 25/07/2025 19:51

Will they be goosestepping this flag to the ground?

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:50

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:49

LMFAO, and there is it… the racist word, yep, definitely racist me, I must be the Kemi and Zia type far right racist thug.

Ooooooh round us all up.

If your point wasn’t that you don’t like desperate people claiming asylum perfectly legally, then yes, that’s a bit racist. I didn’t say anything about thuggery.

Obeseandashamed · 25/07/2025 19:50

🤮 🤮 🤮 Aside from potentially inciting violence with the wording “on the charge’ - this would give me the ick too!

KnittyNell · 25/07/2025 19:49

crumblingschools · 25/07/2025 14:00

Has he explained why he wanted a flag with that wording?

Why should he?

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:49

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

LMFAO, and there is it… the racist word, yep, definitely racist me, I must be the Kemi and Zia type far right racist thug.

Ooooooh round us all up.

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:48

DuncinToffee · 25/07/2025 19:46

The are receiving racial abuse when playing for England?

Yes, they are. I doubt if the OP's husband and his Farage fan mates care much about that though.

cardibach · 25/07/2025 19:47

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:05

Right going down the rabbit hole, Farage aside, I can see why people have become disenfranchised with the current political elite.

It is not racist to say there is an issue with crime, uncontrolled illegal immigration and the erosion of civil liberties.

When the histrionics have subsided and you look at the cold hard facts, I can see why a party that has Habib, Zia, Nigel etc is attracting support not just from ‘far right’ people but ordinary British people. For example, Zia doesn’t exactly fit the bill for a far right thug.

When none of the political elite have the guts to address the elephant in the room, I’m not surprised fringe groups are gaining popularity.

instead of blindly labelling everyone as racist, the facts at hand should be discussed.

I find it’s people like me that are more willing to touch these controversial topics because we are not white.

sad day when someone has to bite their tongue in fear of being labelled racist.

When that little depraved monster, Axel killed little girls at a dance club, the PM spoke on Islamophobia and protecting mosques whilst people like Lucy Connolly faced greater sentences for clumsy reactive tweets than paedophiles raping underaged girls up north.

ill now depart because there’s a certain faction on this thread exhibiting the same sneering elitist attitudes that the political elite have for the average person.

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.

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:47

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:45

I thought after your first bit of whataboutery you said you were going.

Well, after you reared your ignorant head, I’ve decided to stay, Sooty.

now take your dusty self elsewhere if you want.

DuncinToffee · 25/07/2025 19:46

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

The are receiving racial abuse when playing for England?

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:45

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:44

if you can’t deduce from MY post the point I was making, then seriously, jog on.

I thought after your first bit of whataboutery you said you were going.

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:44

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

if you can’t deduce from MY post the point I was making, then seriously, jog on.

ilovesooty · 25/07/2025 19:43

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:40

they’ve made everything political.

the school system, medical system, football, sports in general.

They demonise people for refusing to pander to certain identity politics and when you take a stand for biological women, you’re treated appallingly.

Im very careful of the types of people that parrot things that are taken out of context and twisted to fit a narrative.

If we went back to good old fashioned common sense and fairness, these corrupt be kind mobs wouldn’t be brainwashing people into believing in things that are ultimately detrimental to society at large.

What have biological women got to do with this thread?

DestituteDesperate · 25/07/2025 19:40

grumpygrape · 25/07/2025 19:38

I know I’m a ‘sad’ old woman but whatever happened to going to a sporting event, cheering your team on and politely clapping when the ‘other side’ scored?
What the heck has politics got to do with supporting a football team?
I’ve seen too much of the bad side of football to have any respect for a lot of the ‘fans’ and some of the players.

they’ve made everything political.

the school system, medical system, football, sports in general.

They demonise people for refusing to pander to certain identity politics and when you take a stand for biological women, you’re treated appallingly.

Im very careful of the types of people that parrot things that are taken out of context and twisted to fit a narrative.

If we went back to good old fashioned common sense and fairness, these corrupt be kind mobs wouldn’t be brainwashing people into believing in things that are ultimately detrimental to society at large.

grumpygrape · 25/07/2025 19:38

I know I’m a ‘sad’ old woman but whatever happened to going to a sporting event, cheering your team on and politely clapping when the ‘other side’ scored?
What the heck has politics got to do with supporting a football team?
I’ve seen too much of the bad side of football to have any respect for a lot of the ‘fans’ and some of the players.

allyjay · 25/07/2025 19:09

skippy67 · 25/07/2025 13:02

Nigel is very in at the mo. Your DP and his gang will be the envy of many with their tribute flag.

Edited

Er no racism and bigotry will NEVER be'in'

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