To think this takes top place as the most tacky 'flag' example?!!

Weirdly St Patrick was born in Britain (either South Scotland or Wales or England, but either way he was a posh British bloke). Not really relevant just Saints are weird. I think St David was actually born Wales so that's something..

To be fair I haven’t seen any of those, only ones like like this with a faux naïve opening post & pages of disinformation & arguing! There are plenty of those!

There is CITME board for this btw

It’s all abhorrent, but it’s wrong to describe what’s happening now as though it were isolated. The entire population of Gaza has been held hostage for years.

How do you feel about the Palestinians raping and torturing and murdering in the most grotesque ways civilians, women children and babies on Oct 7? This was purpose of the Palestinian attack on Israel

Raping of women in times of war by Israeli soldiers means those soldiers need to be held accountable if found guilty

Ah, apologies I should have highlighted the part where the UN reports that Israeli soldiers did rape Palestinians including under explicit orders. Explicit orders of a modern first-world democracy.

And as you mention celebrating atrocities, well Israelis do that plenty too.

I genuinely don't get what that report is supposed to say. Rape is wrong whoever does it. I know male PoWs are generally stripped as a safety precaution because of weapons, that's standard AFAIK so I'm not surprised Israel does it too. Of course childbirth is harder in a war zone, Palestine started the war and won't surrender so I'm not sure what can be done about that, at least aid is going in which is more than be said for the many places around the world which are experiencing far worse. October 7th was a terrorist atrocity that Palestinians celebrated, there's no getting past that.

Nor is it a weapon of oppression. Some people are so addled by their of misguided sense of entitlement that they are lost beyond redemption.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/03/more-human-can-bear-israels-systematic-use-sexual-reproductive-and-other

Rapre is not a weapon of resistance. Some people are so addled by their own misguided sense of righteousness they are lost beyond redemption.

Are you claiming October 7th was entirely isolated from anything which had gone before ?

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/longform/2025/3/26/gazas-stolen-childhood-the-thousands-of-children-israel-killed

Yes as a direct result of the leaders actions.lt is the flag of terrorist leaders.

It’s also a flag of oppressed people being murdered in their tens of thousands.

But one flag is the flag of the country on which the flag is being flown. The Palestinian flag is a flag of terrorist rulers. I’d say it’s easy to draw the distinction

Whoever is writing we welcome all refugees is probably also parroting “from the river to the sea” clearly has no comprehension of what they are saying. I wouldn’t be taking any comfort from that

“All” refugees welcome? Gosh you must have an enormously positive view of Britain’s economic prospects and the country’s ability to avoid collapsing under its spiralling and record breaking debt burden to think that would be affordable.

I like the one on social medial where some idiot has painted a white cross on a red background.

I'm also encouraged by the fact that people are now using the roundabout flags as a background for messages like "UK welcomes all refugees".

I’ve only seen one with an objection, and that’s the one about selling a property. TBH, I don’t blame the poster … the thugs shouting outside hotels are festooned in crosses of St George, I wouldn’t want to be associated with that shite either.

I’ve not seen one with”multiple threads” about wanting then removed from public property.

With your Palestinian Flags from lampposts ..the council either enforces the rules, or not. You can’t say “this flag is ok, and this one isn’t”. The council dare not remove England Flags, which means that can’t remove any. Imagine the fuss if I hoisted an LGB one up there …

At the end of the day the flags are being used as an anti-immigration protest…and by anti-immigration, I mean non-white immigration. It’s not a massive outpouring of National Pride. It’s ok to not like immigration, you can specifically not like non-white immigration …but in doing so keep your flags on your own property. I’ve got one waving on the lamppost outside my house, and I have no issues with immigration. I don’t like what it currently represents.

I love my country, I proudly British (apart from selling arms to despots, and other nefarious activites)

@ExtraOnions there are a number of threads on Mumsnet where people are objecting to the England and Union flags being flown on private property, one this week was started because the poster had asked their neighbour to remove it from their own land.

I live in an area absolutely festooned with Palestinian flags (mostly on public property) so lucky you,

Hmmm,.. well Glastonbury is held on private land, so not sure what your point is there.

I say the same thing for any flags … keep them on your own property.

I’ve not seen one Palestinian Flag round here, so I’m not really concerned about them. I have got streetlights festooned with cheap England flags, because someone has applied for a HMO - they gave only been on a week, and look shit already.

@ExtraOnions but in that case why has there not been the same level of opprobrium directed at Palestinian Flags? Whole sections of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham have been festooned with these as well as various other parts of London and the rest of the country including motorways. And of course not to mention a whole raft of events including Glastonbury.

A quick search on Mumsnet shows a far bigger reaction to the current wave of St George and Union flags compared to the widespread erection of Palestinian flags.
And a lot of people on Mumsnet do object to the flying of England and Union flags on people’s own property.

Maybe put a flag on your own property instead of vandalising roundabouts, illegally zip-tying polyester flags to lamp-posts, and decorating motorway bridges (in a way that distracts drivers)

I think it possibly contravenes planning regulations, and is amazingly tasteless.

How are people supposed to express their dissatisfaction with the scale of illegal immigration in the UK? Voting clearly hasn’t worked and any protest is immediately labelled “far right”. So what options are left?

She's not on the breadline now though is she? Her snout is very firmly in the trough, has been for a good few years and it seems she can't read the room and doesn't care who knows it.

I used to think that socialism was about everyone being equal. The Blair and Brown years swiftly disabused me of that idea. As always with socialists it seems that some pigs are more equal than others - to misquote George Orwell.

I know exactly what a champagne socialist is. Here's a definition for you, as you clearly don't.
A champagne socialist is a pejorative term for someone who professes socialist or left wing views but lives a wealthy privileged lifestyle, implying hypocrisy and a disconnect between their stated ideals and their personal conduct. The term suggests that their professed beliefs are insincere or that they fail to live up to the principles of social equality that they advocate.

I used to secretly admire Angela Rayner for how she's got to where she has despite her background but sadly she's turned out to be a massive disappointment, just like every other politician.

In Wales someone has painted on a mini roundabout. The police announced they were investigating. They've had a drubbing on social media because they're never available to catch the yobbos.