Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

This is an update! I always used to see it written as “Libtard”

We’ve had a few and any on public property I’ve taken down if I am able to. You can’t do anything about people displaying things on their own property except question their taste.

I got a flags of all nations bunting and have decorated our porch with it. It doesn’t look amazing but I’ve made my point 🤣

Primarily I think he is known for exposing the grooming gangs and being ignored by the authorities for 20 years but that's another topic.

It's not for you tell people what rallies they can attend. Nor can you assume their reasons. Most people attend these protests because they don't agree with mass illegal immigration, that does not mean they are racist people. How do you explain the black and brown attendees?

That's not technically true. Most sensible adults have the emotional intellect to be able to separate a person from aspects of their beliefs.

I'm certain vegetarians would have a lot in common with Hitler's dietary choices, it doesn't mean they agree with the holocaust.

I’ve just been called a “limptard” on our local FB group!

Is tommy Robinson known for anything apart from racism, xenophobia and islamophobia? Is he a big climate change activist? Animal rights supporter? Is he campaigning for better welfare support? Anti abortion?

As far as I know everything he stands for and talks about is covered by racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. (Except maybe during the period when he had converted to islam)..if you don't support racist, xenophobic or islamophobic views then don't attend his rallies. I'm sure you can find a more relevant rally than that.

I’ve just been called a “limptard” on our local FB group!

I really don't know what is so difficult for people to grasp. There is nothing inherently racist about flying a flag, but it is quite obviously racist when you're flying that flag in response to a racist dog whistle.

They don't fly it with the words Unite the Kingdom, that's the difference. Unite the Kingdom, although it sounds nice, is TOMMY ROBINSON's campaign. It's not a fluffy let's-all-band-together statement. It's a far-right statement, from the horse's mouth. And it's dressed up in a message of togetherness so that many people won't really get what it's about. They'll just think "Yeah, stop the small boats" and put up the flag, which might be exactly what OP's neighbours have done.

@OswaldCobblepotoh yes I am, I forgot to say Windsor Castle also fly the Union flag, forgive me for forgetting that!

Just because you didn't understand the analogy...

You make a good point with which I somewhat agree. I too would never go on a pro-Palestinian march. I wouldn't go on a Unite the Kingdom march either. But I did see several interviews with people on the UtheK march who distanced themselves from racism - some of them were immigrants, which tells another story.
There is no way we have of protesting that things are done in our name that we thoroughly disagree with and know to be wrong. What to do?

Primarily I think he is known for exposing the grooming gangs and being ignored by the authorities for 20 years but that's another topic.

It's not for you tell people what rallies they can attend. Nor can you assume their reasons. Most people attend these protests because they don't agree with mass illegal immigration, that does not mean they are racist people. How do you explain the black and brown attendees?

They are a bunch of patriots, though. Fed up patriots being told their country, history, culture, way of life etc is evil, wicked and should be de-colonised and trashed. I don't blame them TBH.

But you are basically saying that some people would have attended Nazi rallies led by Adolph Hitler because they agreed with his vegetarianism but not the demonisation of the Jews, but that they could just brush past the anti-Jewish stuff. It's patently absurd.

Is tommy Robinson known for anything apart from racism, xenophobia and islamophobia? Is he a big climate change activist? Animal rights supporter? Is he campaigning for better welfare support? Anti abortion?

As far as I know everything he stands for and talks about is covered by racism, xenophobia and islamophobia. (Except maybe during the period when he had converted to islam)..if you don't support racist, xenophobic or islamophobic views then don't attend his rallies. I'm sure you can find a more relevant rally than that.

It's interesting that you should mention the horrific attacks on Israel on October 7th two years ago. I have grave concerns about the Israeli government's actions in Gaza and about our own government's response to those actions. However, I would never go on one of the pro Palestine marches because it is very clear that some of the people on those marches have been using them as a vehicle for the expression of their antisemitic hate. I recognise that aligning myself with those people, and marching alongside them, might suggest that I was condoning the antisemitism, and I am categorically not willing to do that. Because it is wrong.

If people choose to march alongside racists, they are effectively choosing to condone racism. And as far as I'm concerned, that makes them part of the problem.

It's not more nuanced than that and your false comparison of Hitler's vegetarianism is utterly laughable. (Had Hitler organised a vegetarian rally, it may well have been attended by vegetarian Nazis, but the irony of a man being opposed to the killing of animals, whilst directing the slaughter of millions of fellow human beings, would not be lost on those who saw him for what he was - a vicious, violent, immoral, insane racist.)
And @CurlewKate 's comment "Loads of people are concerned about immigration. That does not make you a racist. Allying yourself with racists does though." couldn't be clearer, and the fact that you disingenuously pretend not to understand it is very telling. Many UK citizens are very concerned about uncontrolled immigration, but we wouldn't dream of attending a rally organised by the violent, racist thug, Tommy Ten Names. All those people who attended his rally, but claim not to be racist, could have organised their own rally. Why didn't they? Why on earth would they attend a rally organised by a racist if they aren't? Why would they want to be associated with such a racist? The old adage applies: "If you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas." Now they're going to have to own their racism, whether they like it or not. Too bad.

Those behind Unite the Kingdom and Operation Raise the Colours are racist.

If they were just a bunch of merry patriots trying to cheer the place up, they'd acknowledge their campaign has backfired, got mixed up with racists and take them down.

But they're not a bunch of merry, wellmeaning, patriots and people, left, right and centre know it. Its just the far right who are playing stupid or are in denial.

Is it just me or does “now I have to see this fucking flag” some sort of insinuation that you find the flag insulting? You literally live here? Why the offence?

Not at all. It points out that a person can agree with certain aspects of someone's beliefs whilst disagreeing with others. It is really that simple.

So to suggest anyone who supports TR is an automatic racist is ridiculous. Not one of us knows the reasoning behind why individuals attended the September 13th rally and throwing out these all encompassing labels such as 'racist' at hundreds of thousands of people is lazy, dismissive and extremely divisive.