Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

@UrticaDioca your feelings are valid. The attempted minimising, deflection and passive aggressiveness from some are a clear indication of why you are concerned. You are not alone.

This.
Id deffo help pay for a custom flag that specifically said ‘unite the kingdom - except for the man at No.27’

You could put up some multi flag bunting that has flags from all over the world aswell.
(what a tit he is)

That's a bit of a stretch. If you look at houses for sale on line in many areas, plenty have been up for sale long before people started putting up flags. House prices quite often start higher than they are worth. Estate Agents often do this.

Unfortunately it was the name of Tommy Robinson's rally.

“That's who the flag is against“ hang on @Sasha07 just said that the flag IS to protest against people. I’m confused as I’m sure the Unite the Flag apologists upthread insisted it was to demonstrate patriotism and pride?

I know loads of areas where the house prices have dropped because of idiots like this. Currently a friend in a very nice area is struggling to sell her home because a few doors down some idiot who is renting has stuck a flag on their house. They’re honestly worst kind.

Fake innocence is really boring. You know as well as I do why it’s nasty.

I'll repost this picture of Tommy Robinson with his United the Kingdom flag because it looks like it needs pointing out again that he was deliberately posing with a number 88 bus because '88' is a racist's code for 'Heil Hitler'. Something that Tommy Robinson would be well aware of.

He hasn't changed in the slightest.

I can understand why you are upset op. Its message is clear and it isn’t patriotism. I don’t know what can be done about it though. Hopefully someone who knows them well will have a word and tney’ll take it down

Eek, if you’ve never had much to do with them before, just ignore them.

If it makes you feel better, my bellend neighbour installed a 6 foot flag on the front of our terrace, next to his bedroom windows.

It’s been windy and stormy the past two days and it sounded like a ship yard night before last! The ‘poor’ fucker had to sleep next to this wailing, flapping flag smacking against his glass windows all night… and I’m sure his neighbours the other side weren’t happy about the noise next to their bedroom.

I looked up as I left the house this morning and smiled when I saw the flag had suddenly disappeared. The bellend had managed to annoy himself!

Pray for high winds, OP. If not to take it down, just so that they can get mightily annoyed by sound. 😇

😂 in what way has he changed?

@UrticaDioca if you are that offended by the flag of the country you live in, perhaps its time to move somewhere where you do respect the country's flag.

Because at the time there were protest marches by British tradesmen because they were being undercut by foreign workers. Gordon Brown had promised British jobs for British workers which never happened, so GD was voicing the concerns of many of the British public. If he had refused to resign it would have been political suicide anyway.

No idea who Tommy Robinson is.

Wow!

Personally I like to keep up with what's going on in the world..

OP, I'm sorry you're going through this. I too would be horrified if I had to look at that shite all day. Sending strength.

TLDR: The flags are a stand against the illegal immigrants, the ones who endanger others. See screenshot. Not the guy who runs the takeaway, not the woman who married a British guy and raised a family here etc. It's to put a stop to people like the one in the screenshot... Then getting away with it because 'he didn't know he shouldn't rape children.'

I have Polish and Ukrainian neighbours who have Union Jack and/or St. George flags on display.

I've became friends with the Polish woman and as the conversation went, she's against the illegal immigrants. She doesn't feel threatened by the flags, she loves them. She feels, as many others do, that it's unfair that she, a hard working, came here legally, woman, is being made uncomfortable by random men who seemed to have just turned up from nowhere.
The men, who have no ID, who stare at her young teenage daughters as they pass. The men who, if they ever did anything sinister, would probably be nameless and faceless to ever bring to justice. I'm with her, she's with the many, many others who feel the same. It's not about a divide of England VS The Rest Of The World.

It's British people who were born here, who earned the right to move here, who don't want to feel threatened in a place we call home, against men who don't know or care about our culture. The illegal man who hurt two girls here, stating he didn't know he couldn't do that!! That's who the flag is against. Not anyone who is here to fit in or atleast, do no harm and who pay tax etc.

So no. The flying of flags, atleast around here, are not all from racists. It's not about skin colour. It's 100% about behaviour. In my small town, it was mainly whites as I grew up. Now, we have many Turkish (takeaways and barbers, always busy businesses,) blacks (they have many white friends in the schools and are often seen in work uniforms) Indian, Chinese, Thai... There's never an issue with them. But there is an issue when men who no one knows, or have seen before, start following women. It's caught on video and camera.

Isn’t that Facism……the left keep screaming about Fascism so many they would know.

I can see the issues perfectly well. I still wouldn’t attend a march organised by Robinson, because he is a criminal and a racist.

How is Poland dealing with all the immigration lately.
Perhaps you ought to have a look at it.

No it doesn't. You having experienced racism does not mean anyone who flies a Union Flag is a racist. This is simple stuff.

No not really. People change TR is mainstream now I agree 20 plus years ago he could be considered racist.

Nothing respectful about this racist claptrap

i hadn’t seen that it was a TR phrase, in which case I would feel so shit. I went back to my hometown yesterday and it was covered in flags and I cried cos I just felt so sad that it’s so hateful and so scared of whats going to happen

I’ve never seen the phrase ‘unite the kingdom’ at all (other than maybe in sort of historical dramas maybe…?), other than in this thread.

If I saw it on a flag I’d have been clueless.

This is also the first time I’ve seen flying union jacks described as racist, previously it was just St George’s crosses.

No ‘denial’, I had no idea.

I didn't know.

You're absolutely entitled to your view.

As others are entitled to disagree...