House viewings - neighbour refuses to take down flag - Update

Why is flying a flag racist?
I've lived in the US and Switzerland and they are everywhere.
Your Little Englander pearl clutching is insane!

You would be clutching your pearls in the US - there are flags outside nearly every house!
Also Switzerland!

DARVO = Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

Darklingllisten's posts are accusing the OP of being bullying and coercive etc. Generally it's the racists who are bullying and coercive. In no one's right mind does a polite request regarding this flag count as 'bullying and coercive', whereas racist behaviour is by definition bullying and it's very often coercive. Darkling's being provocative.

Maybe this is the answer... long term all the racists can/will only be able to buy/rent together and the non racists can/will only buy/rent together and then they can all live in their own little olde England bubble where everything is fine and Dandy (haha!) And leave the rest of us to it without having bloody farage shoved down our throats all the time

Arrrrr country 😂

I read your initial post yesterday. I think you were unreasonable to make the request in the first place and you've heightened the situation with continued interaction. Drop it.
Also, I find it difficult to believe a buyer was put off making an offer because of the flag. If someone truly admitted that, they likely weren't serious buyers or extremely high maintenance people.
You said you previously had a cordial relationship with your neighbour. Living beside his house and flag never bothered you before from going about your life, but you've created the problem yourself.
I think you are just anxious about selling and are being over the top with wanting things a certain way. You cannot control anything outside your own property.

I didn’t post on your other thread, but I was going to advise not talking to your neighbor. Someone who hangs a banner like that is the same type of person who will escalate the situation.

talking to him again or making jokes about future bad neighbors is only going to make him retaliate. Your best approach at this point is to ignore him.

buyers absolutely will consider neighbors while shopping and look elsewhere. Since you now look like you live next door to a crazy person, I would consider delaying the sale until he calms down.

I wouldn't want to live next door to a flag shagger it would be an instant no if I was looking to buy - but as a seller it was always going to be a red rag (flag) to a bull to ask for it to come down.

It is racist if you say yes to accepting racism as a fact of life.

Please explain what "are" country is. Do you mean "our"? Because racists are not all that bright now are they love?

I've just realised I know this person She's like this in RL too.
Way too much kool aid.

You asked the first time he said no you should have left it there. Flags seem to be a very big thing in the country at the moment for numerous reasons. My neighbours have a St George flag because her daughter is playing in the rugby World Cup.

It's not racism. It's being concerned for my country. Are country.

Vote Reform and Nigel will sort it all out. No more undesirables in Britain. And that won't be because they've all gone to grift on the US lecture circuit. No sirreee.

Better things to do than support racism. Oh I do hope so.

Agree. I'd be gutted to only find out after I'd moved in that my neighbour was a flag waving Reform voter. Unfortunately, and as demonstrated by this and other threads, there are plenty of people who won't be put off by it, you'll just have to sell to another Reformer.

@KayleighhMum - that is genius! And hang your head whilst muttering "yet another HMO ...". Then walk away.

Sorry, are you seriously saying that racism is good?

He abused us and our children if you think it's okay to attack children over the colour of their skin then you really don't have any morals. He was nice at first as well until his true colours came out. We have a lovely neighbour don't hear a peep from them. Even they said how strange he was. He had CCTV all around his house.

You can say what you want about us you are not on the receiving end of the abuse. Should we move or do we stay and stand up for ourselves and fight against bullys. What is there to be patriotic about when your citizens are walking around with a soft palette.

People can be nice and friendly and racist.
I'd like a nice neighbour but I wouldn't buy a house that had a picture of Farage in the next garden.
I'd welcome the flag and poster in this case because then at least I would know.

I said in the last thread that speaking to the neighbour in the first place would be like waving a red flag to a bull. Seems I wasn't mistaken... 🤔
Rule of hole... stop digging

Interesting one. I can’t think I would be keen myself. But then my neighbours probably wouldn’t entertain it.

However a picture of any politician is where I would draw the line. Seriously, your neighbour is a knob

First post nails it! 😂

Say it will be turned into a HMO For asylum seekers. Play him at his own game. Get him frothing with venom so much that he might give himself a stroke. Just as the rightwingers posters have said. You have agency over your own property!