If one was to ‘find’ some spray paint how might one amusingly deface a St George’s Cross (hypothetically ofc)

Add some nice colourful stripes. Red orange yellow green…

Rip them down

On the motorway bridge near Maidstone Somone spray painted the word "gammon" on a flag that was hanging

So if someone painted a pride flag on a roundabout you’d be ok with it being defaced? If not, why not?

Now the flags are on lamp posts where I am. I so want to attach a sign which says “why half mast? Is Farage dead?”

You’re completely right, my apologies. I meant the far right and thought that was what I’d typed. A combination of brain fog and entertaining a toddler all day.

I would spray the whole thing red then paint LFC in the middle. Either that or an anatomically dubious spunking cock and balls.

Any flag in the hand of nationalists becomes something non-neutral because it is a dog-whistle method of weaponising identity. Scotland during the independence referendum is a case in point.

Any ideas how I can improve the Palestine flags flying everywhere I look too?

There should be a major re brand!

The St George’s flag topic is so divisive.

Yes, this. People going out at night to paint roundabouts are doing it to make a point, and that point is entirely racist.

The flag itself is not racist, but it is being used deliberately to make "foreigners" and specifically those of different ethnicities, feel unwelcome. How can that be anything other than racist?

The best thing to do is leave it alone and get on with your day. Don't let such trivialities effect you so much as to post on the internet about how to change it. It is benal and all things will pass away. There is nothing you can do about anything.

The Indian svastika, an ancient, sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism that means "well-being" or "good fortune" and that was traditionally associated with prosperity and luck was twisted into a symbol of bigotry and cruelty by the Nazis.

In this way, a previously positive symbol (our flag) has been twisted to have negative connotations by the far right.

Just because something has an original meaning, doesn't mean that meaning remains static. Right now, the plethora of flags are being flown to represent racism and bigotry.

Yes, it can be either or both.

Just like plenty of people have always naturally had no hair on their heads, or have decided that they look/feel better shaving it all off - all totally innocent and great; but that doesn't mean that fascists haven't also sometimes co-opted the 'skinhead' theme to have a very sinister understanding.

A symbol of the ‘far right’ not ‘’right’. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with being right or left wing.

Why would you want to deface your own flag (presuming you’re English)? Are you a loon who actually supports the current shameful government, concommitantly suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

You could maybe just grow up and ignore it! You are no better than the person doing it if you go around defacing them (and it's disrespectful to the country).

Everyone's views are valid but by defacing the flag you are just encouraging them in a game of tit for tat. We currently don't live in a society that says one person's views are more valid than another and we have the freedom to express ourselves which is why so many people want to come here.

I'm proud to be British/English and I'm not going to let a bunch of people from the left or far right make me ashamed of the fact or hijack my national flag. Should I stop wearing my England Rugby shirt? My England hoodie? It has the cross of St George on after all.

I'd also really like to know when people have been putting them up because someone has spent a fair bit of time doing it.

You could turn it into the Georgian flag by adding extra crosses.

You could list the countries, regions and cities that have St George as patron saint.

Paint the outside green and write "1st Aid" on it.

Its interesting that people think that the way to stop this is to bring even more attention to it.
If the various councils had left the flags up for a couple of weeks till they got ratty and weather worn, it would (IMO) have prevented all of the painting on the crossings etc. and we would already be back to whatever homeostasis we were in.

People are starting to fly the Irish tricolour with racist intent intent and I dislike this also

It's not inherently racist but it's definitely being flown/ used with racist intent

Grow the hell up. I’m fucking sick and tired of people thinking it’s ok to have a go at the English flag just because SOME racist arseholes try and appropriate it. The flag itself is NOT a symbol of racism. Certainly no more than the Welsh Scottish or Irish. Would it be ok to joke about defacing them? Some hardline extremely xenophobic nationalists have tried hijacking the Scottish saltire but funnily enough I don’t feel like defacing that because I’m a grown up.

Every flag you deface will just increase hate so if you want to make things worse go right ahead thinking you are so clever.

At a time when the government are announcing that immigrants have more rights than citizens, what could possibly go wrong with provoking people who are angry, scared and financially struggling?

I suggested that up thread, four squares and play a game with a racist chappy and it would be a draw and we'd have an understanding and we could all live happily ever after 👍😁