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

Throw it it in the recycling.

You must be right. I am not allowed to be annoyed at people wanting to deface my country's flag.. Nothing to do with any of the dickheads painting red crosses.

Just calm down and get a sense of humour will you?? Or maybe change your username to pamisfunatparties

Spray a nice big sign outside your house
" I am the best, follow me for righteous words and direction"?

Ah but @Namechangechangeobv vandalism is righteous and educated remember.
Showing the 'knuckle draggers' who's in charge.

Also, you can get England flag thongs and mankinis. If we're talking about desecrating the flag, I think Pete from Basildon's sweaty bollocks are more of an issue than some googly eyes on a graffiti'd roundabout in the grand scheme of things.

Yes I am triggered. And yes, you very much should have been more clear. Apology accepted.

I have seen some turned into the pride flag.

So you don’t like the vandalism but you’re going to deal with that by creating more vandalism. How old are you?

Why would you deface (presumably) your own country's flag?
Horrible behaviour. Leave it alone or move abroad.

"Yay Women's Rugby" or something like that?

I can't get over all the wide eyed fake naivety of "what do you mean its been used as a racist symbol? This has never happened before!".

My area of Wales was the first place the Welsh flags started popping up as part of this "operation raise the colours" (something like that), and the general reaction from normal people was "oh no, they're trying to make it like the English flag".

It's a very predictable pattern. The English flag was associated with a lot of general violence and thuggery which slid into xenophobic / racist violence over time, largely because it was perpetuated by people draped in England flags or wearing England football shirts and that image stuck.

Then, because that image has stuck, those same people complain "you can't fly an English flag these days or you get called racist / a thug". Normally reasonable people then start to think "well, you know, they've got a point - why can't we put our flags up without being called racist or thugs?".

Meanwhile, the people shouting the loudest are forcing the association between the flag and racist / thug behaviour by graffiting the flag in places or accompanying it with slogans of "stop the boats" or "go back home". They create the link between the rhetoric and the flags, but when people take the flags down, it's "they want us to stop waving our flags! They want to take away our national identity!".

It's a very deliberate attempt to covertly link the flag to views ranging from concerns about immigration to outright racial hatred, because the two then become intertwined. You can't then challenge the views, because then you're criticised for hating the flag. It's a very useful shield for cowards.

The performative outrage is funny. Just report it or don't. No need to announce "I am SO offended! I MIGHT report it!"

Also it's absolutely clear that no one is talking about defacing real flags flown properly on public buildings, they're talking about defacing the shit graffiti done by racists to intimidate immigrants. If that offends you it's clear what kind of person you are, and trust me, no one cares about those kinds of people being offended. The kind of person offended by anti racism might just not be that nice... You know?

And don't try to claim it's nothing to do with racism and claim it's patriotism and people being proud of being English. We all know this is "operation fly the flag" endorsed by Tommy Robinson, Nigel Farage and others of their ilk. We all know what it means.

At least 20 people agree with me that it's funny so I'm not that concerned about your 15.

Thank you x

I would be much more annoyed at pride flags than our national flag. What a ridiculous idea.

I agree . Sadly this is not all about racists - it's also alot of scared people struggling to afford the basics in life whilst feeling that a government who promised change couldn't care less about them or their families. Migrant hotels are an easy target and until something occurs that gives people hope again I think it going to be very difficult to sort out

It just comes down to immaturity and a lack of brain cells. All the snowflake, virtue signalling morons desperately want to accuse anyone that disagrees with them of being racist. It is just an easy, brainless retort.

The OP is not talking about the crosses that have appeared. They have specifically asked how you would deface the St Georges Cross - its not on. Edited - spelling.

I'm picturing Nasty Fucking Farage sad faced on the front page of the Daily Flail, bemoaning a google eyed flag as an, 'Assault on patriotism'. And the googly eyes just gazing out at the Flail's readers accusingly, but the readers being too thick to understand what the eyes are trying to tell them.

Genuinely. Help me. 15 individuals already agree with me. Why is it OK to talk about defacing any flags?????? How disrespectful.

I get the flag out regularly for sports. I don't spray paint it on roundabouts in areas because they have lots of immigrants. Do you see how there's a difference?

There is no evidence whatsoever of any connection to Palestine. He was probably Cappadocian Greek, born in modern Turkiye. "Lydda, Palaestina" where he is believed to have died is actually Lod in central Israel. There is no evidence that he was "raised" there.