Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

The flag is not racist. The person flying it usually is.

Ask your local Council office to intervene. You probably need planning permission for that.

Respectfully, why do you feel so uncomfortable about a flag? This country had the good graces to accept your mother into the country so she could make a life for herself and you. So why such hostility? Would you prefer to see the nation flag of your mother's native country instead? If so, go and live there, not here.

To put it another way; if you want to live in this country, you should be proud of the country and therefore the flag of the country should mean something to you.

I feel offended that you find my nation's flag offensive.

"Oh but it has 'Unite the Kingdom' printed on it, that's the slogan of a far-right campaign." The country is extremely divided, as you've demonstrated based on your reaction to seeing a Union flag.

Really?

I think you are misunderstanding me. I agree with you. That is my whole point. Most people are not far right and racist. It's not me calling them that, it's all the left leaning progressive types who simply cannot fathom that anyone could be a decent person with a conscience and a heart and yet still vote Reform, or want to be proudly patriotic without being told their country's flag is 'only ever' flown by the far right, and the obvious subtext that goes with that statement.

That's the danger and folly of making outrageous assumptions and accusations about the characters of huge numbers of ordinary, largely decent and blameless people instead of trying to engage with their concerns, listen to them and consider that they might actually have a valid point on a few issues.

At best, the middle class left will admit that not all Brexit or Reform voters are far right racists, just most of them, and the others are well meaning but rather dim and easily tricked. It's the typical knee jerk reaction of so called 'progressives'. It's patronising, lofty and high handed and it will shoot them in the foot yet again, just like Brexit did. Just like Gordon Brown shot himself in the foot with his 'bigoted woman' comment about Gillian Duffy.

How on earth have we got to a point in this country where flying our own countries flag makes us racist. Honestly speechless.

Poland currently has a centrist Liberal government under PM Donald Tusk, former President of the European Council. And the immediate ejection of those who enter illegally is only sanctioned on the border with Belarus, and only because Poland passed a law earlier this year to allow a temporary suspension of the internationally recognised right to claim asylum. This suspension can last up to 60 days (renewable) but even that includes exceptions for minors, pregnant women, those with urgent medical needs, and those at risk of harm. Poland acknowledges that it is waiving its international obligations, and has also convinced the EU to allow this apparent violation of the Dublin Treaty as falling under extraordinary circumstances. It's not intended to be a permanent solution but a stopgap until action can be taken against Belarus from actively mass-importing immigrants from conflict zones to dump at their EU borders. Lithuania has a similar problem and currently has a case pending against Belarus at the ICJ.

And Poland currently has a MUCH larger issue with illegal immigration than the UK has, which is logical if you look at a map, hence the "emergency"

It is a political slogan used by Tommy Robinson

Anyone who really wants to unite the kingdom would not desecrate a flag by scrawling slogans over it. It is a flag for everyone not one political group.

I wish people would differentiate between immigration and illegal immigration/ small boats.

We may need skilled migrants in the future but like Australia, we may need a 'points system'.

The anger at the moment is because of illegal immigration and unskilled migrants who don't or can't contribute to the economy.

I had. OP, the flag will blow down in the next storm.

Jesus, at least you know to avoid them like the plague.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon used Unite the Kingdom as the name of his latest rally when he very much wants to divide the kingdom.

@UrticaDioca fly a bigger more colorful 🌈 flag.
Love and peace✌

I did follow them. I'm an avid X user because its the only place you can see the full footage as it unfolds.

You said: 'Any brown face will do.'

You've now said: 'All immigrants in the areas effected were targeted.'

So thank you for contradicting yourself and proving my point that you have no evidence to suggest people who fly flags are targeting people of colour based entirely on their race.

Would you eat chicken breast filets 2 days out of date?

You make a good point.

Where would the liberals place a non-white ‘Unite the Kingdom’ supporter within the Venn diagram?

Would they still be racists, according to those on this thread?

This.

White skin means European heritage, not specifically English.

The Tommy Robinson idiot has clearly adopted the 'unite the kingdom' slogan.

Are you saying that only white men can be English? That's more offensive and racist than anyone flying a Union Jack flag in their garden.

Who would want to move to America?

No worries.

Your story was almost a photocopy of another poster’s story (on a previous thread).

All good.

I take it you didnt follow the racist riots in NI earlier this year. All immigrants in the areas effected were targeted. As well as a leisure centre sheltering those driven from their homes.

No I've never posted anything about a cattery. Also, how would I object to them putting a flag up recently in a post six months ago. Time travel?

You have zero evidence to support that.

The problem isn’t going away even if reform get in. We have an aging population and short of encouraging everyone to have 3+ children the only solution is increased immigration.