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Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 15:05

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.

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WalkDontWalk · 05/10/2025 15:43

AmyDuPlantier · 05/10/2025 15:40

Sure you would

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….ah, the treasured feedback of the stolidly literal.

Boomer55 · 05/10/2025 15:43

UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 15:05

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.

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. 🤷‍♀️

pumpkinscake · 05/10/2025 15:42

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?

I would love if it were just you but sadly it's not

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:42

SpiritAdder · 05/10/2025 15:41

I’m American so I live in the USA. I did say my nationality when I posted.

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Oh sorry. I wasn’t referring to you when I spoke about disingenuous people. I was talking about people in the uk who pretend to believe that this current flag campaign isn’t racist. Sorry I didn’t mean you!

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 15:42

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 15:35

Great, how much do you bet?

Because I would be happy to point you to other threads where I have stated quite clearly that I think the protests should have been called off this weekend in solidarity with the Jewish community.

You can carry on making all the assumptions that you like, but some of us are as horrified by antisemitism as we are by any other form of racism.

Now, about that bet...

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Oh I see so you only think all that should stop for 2 days and the Jewish community should suck it up the rest of the time.

Centuriesahead · 05/10/2025 15:42

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:41

She has. She says she doesn’t know them.

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

ScribblingPixie · 05/10/2025 15:42

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:39

I doubt my neighbours are racist considering both sides are muslim.I live in one of those very diverse areas that some MNers think are no go areas.

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Are you seriously suggesting that no Muslim people hold racist views?

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.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:41

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:40

The flag is a bit of a giveaway.

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She has. She says she doesn’t know them.

SpiritAdder · 05/10/2025 15:41

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:40

“My country”? What do you mean by that? I’m maybe being a bit dim but I really don’t understand what you mean. What is “going on” in your country. I don’t even know where you live!

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I’m American so I live in the USA. I did say my nationality when I posted.

AmyDuPlantier · 05/10/2025 15:40

WalkDontWalk · 05/10/2025 15:11

I'd go over and say, "Am I part of the kingdom you want to unite? Is there anyone currently in the kingdom that you don't want to unite?"

And unless the answers are respectively 'yes' and 'no', I'd put up my own flag saying, 'Unite the Kingdom, except the bloke at number 27 and a few others (list available on request)'

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Sure you would

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:40

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?

The flag is a bit of a giveaway.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:40

SpiritAdder · 05/10/2025 15:34

Thanks for that. I’ll remember to say the same to you if you ever don’t know exactly what is going on in my country.

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“My country”? What do you mean by that? I’m maybe being a bit dim but I really don’t understand what you mean. What is “going on” in your country. I don’t even know where you live!

saveforthat · 05/10/2025 15:39

I've never seen a flag with Unite the kingdom on it but it could be taken as let's everyone in the UK unite, including immigrants. Why assume it means the opposite?

Unicorn34 · 05/10/2025 15:39

Personally it would make me think that my neighbour is a racist idiot and a big, fat neon finger would be pointing at him and no-one else.

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:39

OswaldCobblepot · 05/10/2025 15:35

Newsflash. You probably do have such racist neighbours. The absence of flags doesn't mean your neighbours don't hold these views.

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I doubt my neighbours are racist considering both sides are muslim.I live in one of those very diverse areas that some MNers think are no go areas.

cityanalyst678 · 05/10/2025 15:38

There Are plenty of things my neighbours do which irritate me, but I keep out of it. The flag won’t be there forever and if you go and speak to him, you will wind him up and he is likely to keep it up longer. How would you have felt if that had been a Palestinian flag, or a European Union flag?

ScribblingPixie · 05/10/2025 15:38

OswaldCobblepot · 05/10/2025 15:35

Newsflash. You probably do have such racist neighbours. The absence of flags doesn't mean your neighbours don't hold these views.

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Exactly right. What are the chances that every single person in any street holds only views that you approve of? Zero, I should think.

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?

MrsBennetsPoorNervesAreBack · 05/10/2025 15:35

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 15:31

I bet you believe the Palestine flags and marches don’t frighten Jewish people who live here too.

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Great, how much do you bet?

Because I would be happy to point you to other threads where I have stated quite clearly that I think the protests should have been called off this weekend in solidarity with the Jewish community.

You can carry on making all the assumptions that you like, but some of us are as horrified by antisemitism as we are by any other form of racism.

Now, about that bet...

OswaldCobblepot · 05/10/2025 15:35

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:33

I'd hate to have such racist neighbours. I'd avoid them.

Newsflash. You probably do have such racist neighbours. The absence of flags doesn't mean your neighbours don't hold these views.

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 15:34

DiscoBob · 05/10/2025 15:32

I wouldn't go that far. 😉

Do you know the flag is meant to be hostile/racist? They could be patriotic and just following a bandwagon. I mean I'm not saying they are definitely not raging Yaxley Lennon enthusiasts but it might be best to assume it's not meant in an aggressive way. Unless they've acted in ways that seem unpleasant directly to the neighbours?

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I will certainly try and tell myself that. I do think that if they were just patriotic then it'd be a union jack without the wording.

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SpiritAdder · 05/10/2025 15:34

BitOutOfPractice · 05/10/2025 15:27

Ive been waiting for the wide-eyed faux concerned disingenuity to surface. Didn’t take long did it?

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Thanks for that. I’ll remember to say the same to you if you ever don’t know exactly what is going on in my country.

OwlBeThere · 05/10/2025 15:34

SheSmellsSeaShells · 05/10/2025 15:14

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

Why would you do that? Unite the kingdom is what Tommy Robinson and co call their nasty little campaign.

EchoedSilence · 05/10/2025 15:33

I'd hate to have such racist neighbours. I'd avoid them.

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