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

This!! We've given them the power to abuse it in this way, I'm not sure how ppl aren't seeing that.

The flag isn't intrinsically racist & we are letting idiots take ownership of it by just holding our hands up & going 'ooo no, I don't like that' but doing bugger all about it.

Would be great if Banksy did some MASSIVE piece with the flag all jazzed up with white & non-white faces & wholesome imagery like flowers & birds, some Victoria sponge idk. Then mass produce the flags IRL & we could hang them everywhere to counter the morons.

Let's have us a flag battle & stop being so bloody passive with our identity fgs

What do you make of this house?

As this looks as though it is from Streetview, I would assume it's support for the English team during a major sporting event in the last few years. I wouldn't do it, but I don't think it's particularly tacky - or anything to do with English flags appearing at the moment. TBH have not seen any IRL

Hahahahahahahahaha, absolute state of that.

It looks like a birthday present?

This is not the first time we have done this dance with the struggle over ‘what the flag means’ - there was a lot of fuss about the St George cross during some international sporting event a few years ago.

Either flags are private and only official places can fly them, or they are public and everybody can put them up. What they symbolise is part of the rough and tumble of public debate. Free speech, I guess.

It hasn't been coopted, claimed, adopted and so on by English far right. They just used it because what else should English nationalist groups wave around?
It was given up on by normal people. That's the problem.
"Oh no, EDL used it, now I shall never use it again for it being racist!"

Because the flag has been co-opted by the far right who are thick and racist. The flag has been used for many years by these people to push division and intolerance. Over time, for many, it has become a symbol of these things. A flag is a symbol of identity, with meaning, history and heritage attached. Many English people don’t identify with the meaning, history and heritage the flag has come to represent.

Not every flag has the same connotations or baggage so you’re not comparing like for like.

I completely agree with you. I’ve written to my councillor to make my feelings known. The only other thing I can think to do is put up some anti racism stickers or something. I don’t think the people responsible for the flags should be putting us all in this situation.

Because it has been adopted as a symbol of the hard right here.

Hope that helps.

It’s because the England flag has become a symbol of the far-right, football hooligans, and proscribed terror groups over the past several decades.

If someone hangs a modest flag in their garden or pub there is a chance they are just patriotic. If it’s St George’s day or a significant national event then larger/more flags are acceptable, or a local fete for example. Hundreds of flags painted and hung in public areas by men in hoods obviously has another meaning.

Think you’ll find every time we are at war they pop up everywhere - WW2 noticeably but I remember being quite surprised that they turned up during the Falklands as well.

But they do know how the wider community feels. They're literally being hung with the intention of making non-white Britains and immigrants feel unwelcome. The point is to create upset and division.

That's amazing tbf. It's football related, rather than having racist connotations. We wouldn't have decent football teams or the amount of good British boxers, if it wasn't for immigration.
On a seperate note, I'm watching King and conqueror and the way, Edward the Confessor, is being portrayed is diabolical. He was our patron saint before St George.

It's hideous and undoubtedly lived in by twats.

The current wave of flag shagging is making me depressed.

I don’t think it’s a legal requirement to fly the St. George flag on feast days, more a church tradition. But I agree, all this flag flying is terrible…I mean have you seen what Regent Street looks like some times 😂

I’ll let my mum know her eyes deceive her as does the police report from multiple neighbours to hopefully get it sorted asap.

I’m a person of colour and I’m Muslim. I think there’s an important difference between people who are taking part in the current “flag stuff” and people who simply love their country and want to display their national flag. In almost any country in the world, you’ll see flags flown proudly without controversy. What’s happening now, though, with certain racist groups in the UK hijacking the English flag by painting it on roads, walls, roundabouts, and other random places. Because of this, they’re feeding into the subconscious idea that the England flag automatically equals racism. That association isn’t fair, but unfortunately, it’s being reinforced by their actions. At the end of the day, they’re the ones to blame for turning a national symbol into something people now debate as racist.

Because apart from national and sporting occasions, the only people who fly them or put them on their property (especially in the past few weeks) are without a doubt racist dickheads. It's an instant assumption and a correct one.

Other national flags are a symbol of patriotism, here they are now hijacked as a symbol of racism and the far right.

It’s quite a serious issue at the moment. (to those complaining there are too many threads)

I posted on my story about writing to my councillor about every child’s right to play in their local play park free from intimidation from the political motivations on these flag hangers.

A friend replied to say that their local school has been daubed with the words **ck migrants. Which is the inevitable outcome of emboldening racists.

The council won’t do anything about the flags the moment as they are worried about inflaming the situation.

People should stick to putting them on their own property and think about how they are making the wider community feel.

I think because the lines aren’t centred its saying Christmas to me rather than England!

To all the posters here implying that displaying the England flag makes you racist/thick, why do you think that?
Is it ok to display Welsh or Scottish or Palestinian or Ukrainian flags? Does that make you racist or thick?

My DC wanted trans/pride flags flown from the house and I said ‘no’ and tried to explain what’s wrong with flags more generally (IMO) but it didn’t seem to be taken onboard.

I live in Portugal, the flag and the Portuguese culture is seen to them as something to be proud of and something to retain. In Spain it is similar, why is it only us that has to have negative connotations?

Wow, quite the judgement there.

Do you think it’s impossible to be proud of your country without being against multiculturalism? America would suggest not.

But St George was a Christian, he put himself and his valuable horse in danger to rescue a woman.