Rip the flags down! A call for action!

I suggest you listen to what people with actual experience are telling you.

Honestly I think you and your daughter are a large part of the problem here- a blinkered unwillingness to see any nuance or work out how to deal with this in a sensible/ clever/ tactical way without just parroting your own perception isn’t going to help.

But I think this is why the union flag/St George is being put up in the first place - because of double standards. Palestine flags, pride flags - they’re allowed to stay up but the nation’s flag isn’t.

If no flags were allowed to be attached to any public property, then fair enough. But that’s not what is happening. It has to be fair and equal.

Painting a peace symbol and a rainbow flag is still an act of vandalism. You can’t say one is and one isn’t. It’s the meaning people imbue on to these symbols which is the issue.

This is an interesting article. The councillor interviewed speaks a lot of sense. Though as I’ve said, I don’t think anyone should be vandalising anything really. https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/councillor-blasts-england-flags-roundabouts-10454391?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMbi95leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHgxVghpaww0iXIysWR3ArnuA8C0WjiRbiE8BGxb1c5NKUOq8nnI954Hy6fTb_aem_G-YbrQAIGvDhBkIMggifmw#fq95kkmu20ede0b75q856s4k4cl71c63e

No. As I’ve said previously. No flags should be littered around public areas. Fly what you want on your own property.

O, I don’t remember that rebrand because it didn’t happen. Loads said it did but the eggs carried on saying ‘Easter eggs’ as much as they ever had.

So just the left side of centre then. Centrist.

yes. Forget all the whys and wherefores and wherenots over flag flying. No one has ever said you can’t do it from your property. Nor that you can’t paint a giant wobbly red cross on your own house (funny how no one is spray painting their own property, eh??). But clambering over public property to do it? No. Spray painting or vandalising? No.

And flags on public property do get flown on the appropriate days. My town does so on the monarch’s birthday, on St George’s
Day, and probably other occasions I take no notice of. It’s a lie that flags aren’t flown. And if we flew them all the time it would render the special occasions I’ve mentioned meaningless.

so, flag people, fly away from your own property, paint giant crosses on your own houses that you’ll eventually have to wash off, but hands off public property thank you.

Can we litter random lampposts with Palestine/Pride flags?

Fantastic stuff, God I love Mumsnet.

“Don’t lecture me on causes I should or shouldn’t be fighting for”

Is precisely what you are doing and making rude comments about people “educating themselves”.

YABU. People are allowed to express their opinions, even if you don’t like it. You are also free to express your personal standpoint through the medium of a flag. Why not design one and fly it outside your house?

OP, you know this is the internet. If you want to seek attention, you have to do in real life with real people.

How can you be so blind to the fact YOU are being influenced by Farage, YOU are playing in to this division. People are flying flags because Farage said the left won't let us. Here come the left pulling them down and proving him right. Yes, mass division and you have played right into their hands. YOU are now on a side and YOU will encourage others to pick the wrong side. After all, they can trust Farage, he was right all along about the boat people taking over and the country losing its identity, we can't even fly our flag. (Not my opinion but it will be the thoughts of others now).

Yes you are.
You are absolutely allowed to fly your flag in your own house/garden.
What you aren’t allowed to do is litter random lampposts with it.

The Labour party has never been socialist. They’re a Social Democratic Party. Says it in their rule book.
We have Easter Eggs. What are you on about? Honestly that’s the biggest rage myth going.
And asylum is a tiny, tiny fraction of immigration, so why so exercised about it?
I don’t understand the last sentence.

I would love to do the same but the guy near us has put them in reach of his camera in each direction (business is on a corner of a busy road) and he loves to share his footage on the local Facebook pages

Is it theft if you deliberately leave your belongings hanging about in public in a place they have no right to be and them lose them?

So where do you think they lie on the political spectrum?

So where on the political spectrum do you think they lie?

It shouldn't be happening anywhere. We should not be made to feel unsafe on our own streets yet be called every name under the sun for making these people feel uncomfortable. I'm pretty sure most of them don't anyway.