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UrticaDioca · 2025-10-05T14:05:49+00:00

I am gutted. I haven't seen a single flag in my town, and suddenly this union jack goes up two doors over with the words 'Unite the Kingdom' printed on it in capital letters. The flag is huge and flying from a pole on top of their shed, but it's in their own garden so nothing can be done. I am the daughter of an immigrant mother and therefore mixed race. Now I have to see this fucking flag waving at me every time I look out of my kitchen or living room windows.

SheSmellsSeaShells · 05/10/2025 16:16

noblegiraffe · 05/10/2025 15:19

No, it's Tommy Robinson's campaign.

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Bums. I thought the Union flag was safe!

FlayOtters · 05/10/2025 16:16

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 16:10

Would you? How disgraceful to make automatically pejorative assumptions about anybody based on such a thing as displaying the national flag of one's country.

So many of the people currently banging on scathingly about 'flag shaggers' thought nothing of plasting their facebook profiles with the EU flag post Brexit, did they? With its missing star and all the 'look after our star for us' bollocks. And smugly getting the obligatory UK bumper stickers with the EU stars and around them for driving into France. Funny how they don't see themselves as flag shaggers.

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Yes but putting the EU flag on your fb photo because you're sad about leaving is not QUITE the same as strapping a St George's flag to a random lampost to intimidate brown people because you hate them.

lovernotafighterr · 05/10/2025 16:15

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 16:10

Would you? How disgraceful to make automatically pejorative assumptions about anybody based on such a thing as displaying the national flag of one's country.

So many of the people currently banging on scathingly about 'flag shaggers' thought nothing of plasting their facebook profiles with the EU flag post Brexit, did they? With its missing star and all the 'look after our star for us' bollocks. And smugly getting the obligatory UK bumper stickers with the EU stars and around them for driving into France. Funny how they don't see themselves as flag shaggers.

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British people don’t have tradition for flying the flag in their gardens though unless they are far right supporters.

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 16:15

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 16:10

Would you? How disgraceful to make automatically pejorative assumptions about anybody based on such a thing as displaying the national flag of one's country.

So many of the people currently banging on scathingly about 'flag shaggers' thought nothing of plasting their facebook profiles with the EU flag post Brexit, did they? With its missing star and all the 'look after our star for us' bollocks. And smugly getting the obligatory UK bumper stickers with the EU stars and around them for driving into France. Funny how they don't see themselves as flag shaggers.

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But when someone hasn't only put up a flag, but a flag which is accompanied by a slogan from a very well publicised racist campaign, I think it's inevitable that people will make assumptions about what that means. If people choose to visibly align themselves with any high profile campaign, then others will quite reasonably assume that they support that campaign.

Whistledown2 · 05/10/2025 16:15

UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 16:09

The dad looks like a standard English 'bloke' that you might see down the pub, a little overweight, balding. I don't think that's an indicator of anything though, despite what ppl say about 'gammon' (absolutely hate that term).

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I’m sure there are many ‘standard English/overweight/balding blokes’ that go to the pub and (dare I say it) watch the football and have a pint, with no other agenda than to do just that.

You clearly have a ‘chip’

SapphireSeptember · 05/10/2025 16:14

Agrumpyknitter · 05/10/2025 16:05

The unite the kingdom flag bearers generally hate all illegal immigration and non white persons born here to immigrants.

Racism has gone up and people are more vocal about their hatred.

In Oldbury we have had a Sikh woman born here raped and beaten by two white racists telling her to go back to her own country.

I have heard accounts of people who back in the 70s used to have dog shit through their letterbox because of racist attacks.

My colleagues partner who is born here but non white got racially abused while walking his dog last week in a village in Yorkshire, where they have moved to.

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That's horrendous, that poor woman. 🥺

Feel like white British people need a 'not in our name' campaign.

Centuriesahead · 05/10/2025 16:14

GypsyQueeen · 05/10/2025 16:10

I know!!! 🙄🙈🤣🤣🤣

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What the Op getting a sense the family was racist from when she’d walked past the property and they’d been outside? You think unfathomable that people can convey racism obliquely?

YesJs · 05/10/2025 16:14

Jeschara · 05/10/2025 15:24

I think you should mind your own business. I am in a mixed relationship and it would not bother me, it is in his garden, and you can do nothing about it.
I dont like the way the flag is being used by thugs but I would not let it get to me.

People did a lot of ‘minding their own business’ when Jews started being persecuted and Nazi flags went started being displayed. Keeping quiet is not always the flex you think it is.

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 16:13

Boomer55 · 05/10/2025 15:43

He has his views. You have yours. He’s entitled to hang flags if he wants to. You’re entitled not to hang flags,

I’d just ignore it. 🤷‍♀️

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I have no option but to try and ignore it. I can't exactly sneak into his garden and take it down. I would need a ladder and do not have the guts for that. Nor do I have the guts to go and speak to him about it. I also support his right to free speech and putting whatever he wants in his garden. None of that means I can't feel really gutted and depressed by having to see it all the time.

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IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 16:12

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 15:58

I think it's perfectly legitimate for people to engage in legal protest about issues that they are concerned about. That is a fundamental right within our democracy, and I support that right regardless of whether or not I agree with those protests.

I also think it's perfectly legitimate for people to have concerns about the Israeli government's actions in Gaza, or about our own government's response to this. However, I don't think it's ever ok to use protests about Gaza as a vehicle for expressing antisemitic hatred, for suggesting that Jewish communities in the UK are somehoe responsible for events happening in another continent, or for making Jewish people here in the UK feel threatened or harassed in any way. And I would like to see appropriate action taken against anyone who is guilty of such behaviour.

Your assumptions are misplaced, but they say more about you than they do about me.

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You say and I quote
” I think it’s perfectly legitimate to engage in legal protest about issues that they are concerned about,”
Therefore why on earth are you adding comments to this thread trying to downgrade people who want to fly this particular flag about issues they are concerned about.

Donttellempike · 05/10/2025 16:11

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 16:10

Would you? How disgraceful to make automatically pejorative assumptions about anybody based on such a thing as displaying the national flag of one's country.

So many of the people currently banging on scathingly about 'flag shaggers' thought nothing of plasting their facebook profiles with the EU flag post Brexit, did they? With its missing star and all the 'look after our star for us' bollocks. And smugly getting the obligatory UK bumper stickers with the EU stars and around them for driving into France. Funny how they don't see themselves as flag shaggers.

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Calm down dear. It’s just a flag 😂😂😂😂

GypsyQueeen · 05/10/2025 16:10

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:58

Sweet Jesus both of those scenarios are ridiculous! 🙄

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I know!!! 🙄🙈🤣🤣🤣

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 16:10

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:15

Oh god op I would NOT be happy with that. I would immediately make assumptions about them. None of them favourable.

Would you? How disgraceful to make automatically pejorative assumptions about anybody based on such a thing as displaying the national flag of one's country.

So many of the people currently banging on scathingly about 'flag shaggers' thought nothing of plasting their facebook profiles with the EU flag post Brexit, did they? With its missing star and all the 'look after our star for us' bollocks. And smugly getting the obligatory UK bumper stickers with the EU stars and around them for driving into France. Funny how they don't see themselves as flag shaggers.

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 16:09

Centuriesahead · 05/10/2025 15:42

That is not confirming whether she has ever got a whiff from them that they are racist, does it

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The dad looks like a standard English 'bloke' that you might see down the pub, a little overweight, balding. I don't think that's an indicator of anything though, despite what ppl say about 'gammon' (absolutely hate that term).

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MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 16:08

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 16:06

I think the Palestine flags are a good way to indicate what you are living among as well.

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Possibly. There aren't any in my community so I can't comment.

Donttellempike · 05/10/2025 16:08

Amandasummers · 05/10/2025 15:16

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?

Because her neighbour is showing visible support for a dog whistle racist campaign. HTH

Whistledown2 · 05/10/2025 16:06

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

PandoraSocks · 05/10/2025 16:06

MidnightPatrol · 05/10/2025 15:18

Is flying a Union Jack racist now?

What’s the origin of the statement ‘unite the kingdom’?

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Do you live in the UK?

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 16:06

Centuriesahead · 05/10/2025 15:36

Op why aren’t you able to confirm whether you’ve ever had any engagement with them or got a whiff they are racist before now?

Sorry. I tried to respond to that and then I had to delete it because I responded to the wrong quote.

I haven't had any engagement with them at all. They're two doors over. I think next door knows them quite well and those neighbours are lovely. I might ask them what they think of it, although I'm slightly concerned that they might tacitly support it too!

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IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 16:06

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 15:41

Tbh, the flags on people's houses are quite useful. It is good to know where the racists live.

I think the Palestine flags are a good way to indicate what you are living among as well.

Agrumpyknitter · 05/10/2025 16:05

Dunnocantthinkofone · 05/10/2025 15:19

There have and always will be racist pricks in this world, sadly. They will jump on any bandwagon going and hijack it - unfortunately

Maybe I’m being naive and ignorant, but I thought the whole flag thing was brought about regarding uncontrolled migration (especially by boat) not as a racist statement. Yet time and time again, I see people connecting the dots and immediately assuming the worst
Perhaps I’m wrong?

The unite the kingdom flag bearers generally hate all illegal immigration and non white persons born here to immigrants.

Racism has gone up and people are more vocal about their hatred.

In Oldbury we have had a Sikh woman born here raped and beaten by two white racists telling her to go back to her own country.

I have heard accounts of people who back in the 70s used to have dog shit through their letterbox because of racist attacks.

My colleagues partner who is born here but non white got racially abused while walking his dog last week in a village in Yorkshire, where they have moved to.

Donttellempike · 05/10/2025 16:05

SheSmellsSeaShells · 05/10/2025 15:14

I would interpret Unite the Kingdom as anti racist and in opposition to the St George flag epidemic.

It’s a Tommy10 names racist campaign

Donttellempike · 05/10/2025 16:05

ChocolatesAndRainbows · 05/10/2025 16:03

Why are you gutted? He’s showing his love for his country and his flag.

He’s displaying a racist dog whistle

Donttellempike · 05/10/2025 16:04

Dunnocantthinkofone · 05/10/2025 15:19

There have and always will be racist pricks in this world, sadly. They will jump on any bandwagon going and hijack it - unfortunately

Maybe I’m being naive and ignorant, but I thought the whole flag thing was brought about regarding uncontrolled migration (especially by boat) not as a racist statement. Yet time and time again, I see people connecting the dots and immediately assuming the worst
Perhaps I’m wrong?

Yes. You are

OswaldCobblepot · 05/10/2025 16:04

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