Are there English flags out near you?

[olderandnonthewiser]

Left the North East this morning and saw a few, lots on the motorway bridges and our local fb page is full of them.

There are on the A30 between Exeter & the Tamar today

Absolutely loads of them and it's pissing me off. I have zero issue with patriotism (although zelots can get into the bin), or the British/English flags usually, however this has been coopted by the far right who are whipping up hatred towards asylum seekers/refugees. I'm really sad that our country has seemingly shifted further right than I ever expected.

Shame on all of you who are supporting this but shame on fucking Nigel Farage who started all of this divisive crap.

Appeared overnight in our very dull, totally white, town. Union Jack's at least which look better than the st georges cross, though doubt they were placed for their visual appeal.

Neo Fascist group Britain First have donated 70% of their flags to this exercise.

The stretch isn't so great.

The double standard in how patriotism is viewed in this country is because there are two standards.

One is being proud of this country's values of Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, and Mutual Respect and Tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.
The other has forgotten this and is hiding behind a flag.

Are the flags out for the women’s rugby World Cup? Or left over from the women’s football European championships?

it’s good to celebrate our sporting heroes.

No @JohnDenver .

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx271162ee3o

I think it’s quite fitting. Nothing screams England to me like mini roundabout spray painted with a wonky St George’s cross by a racist. A perfect encapsulation of the declining shithole so many of us call home, spearheaded by the Brexit voting idiots responsible for that same decline. My favourite part of this whole thing is these thugs’ determination to protect the country’s innocent white women from the “immigrant hordes”. Piss off we don’t need your protection. Most of these men are violent thugs who wang on about protecting women when they subject the women and children in their own lives to violence and abuse. They are everything wrong with this country and I’d rather greet a thousand small boats a day personally with a hamper of homemade snacks and a veuve clicquot toast than spend even a second of time in their moronic company.

A personal attack now, is that the best you can manage?

Two (one each of St George and union flag) have appeared today on the main road through my village today/ overnight. They look shit because they’re wrapping round each other and look hastily thrown up a street light. Bit surprised but guess they’re spreading…

Couldn't agree more. The same thugs who in one breath apparently want to protect me, but in another breath called me a plethora of revolting names because I dared to politely question the reasoning behind their flag flying on social media. Make your mind up lads.

I'd happily swap one of these 'men' for 100 asylum seekers. It is them I want protecting from, not anyone else.

No, but I'm in Wales! I see the Welsh dragon a lot on car number plates. There's a lot of pride in being Welsh.

I see lots of Yorkshire flags when I go to North Yorkshire, but England flags... I only see them if I'm visiting family in England and it's around the St. George's Day parade, a big sports event or some other day of national pride. To be fair, though, they live in a very conservative village and it Just Wouldn't Do if people took to spray-painting things everywhere!

Nope

Live I south east and literally saw groups of people putting up England flags on Thursday all the way along the main road into the next 2 towns, about 40. The next day the council were out taking them down, now people have painted crosses on mini roundabouts.

Welsh flags are loads more exciting than the England flag.

Really frustrating; just as the flag was being reclaimed from the far right, just as we felt confident flying them for sporting events, they rear their ugly heads and snatch it from us again. What a shame.

Most patriotic.

Shame people don't put as much effort into showing pride in their country and community by eg doing litter picks, Britain in Bloom, community orchards, visiting old people etc as they do into climbing lamp posts.

Or indeed a flag-putter-upper falling off a bridge.

Additionally, who will be taking them down when they look tatty?

Or indeed a flag-putter-upper falling off a bridge.

Additionally, who will be taking them down when they look tatty?

They’re on every lamppost where I live. Feels like intimidation. There is an asylum hotel not too far away. They have also painted all the mini roundabouts. It’s nothing to do with pride or patriotism. It’s people being racist and trying to incite violence.

Depending on how old she is (primary) I would too! Secondary I wouldn't!

England ( not Scotland or Wales) has a problem.

We don't know how to celebrate nationalism, its been hijacked by the far right for so long, we only feel comfortable about it during sporting events. I agree it shouldn't be controversial , but is controversial because so many scumbags have claimed it.

I live in Surrey and if a house has a huge flag , we would assume they are far right, just being honest.

We do need to reclaim it, normal people , but we also need to accept our imperialist past , we slaughtered a lot of people and basically invaded tons of countries .

We've been told for so long that being British is something tonbe ashamed of

I don't think so, we had one of the biggest empires in human history, you don't get that by being the nice guy, and its about accepting that, not denying that part of our history,

Read up about 'OPERATION LEGACY' in the 50's when we started to 'hand back' all these countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Legacy

So how many flags is that in actuality, and what percentage of those flags donated make up the total number of the flags put up?

More pertinently, why would anyone take any notice of this laughable and entirely predictable far-left wing smear attempt (my guess is that the source is Hope Not Hate, who everyone knows are proven liars).

You still haven’t answered the question I see. What is the link between a country celebrating their culture and national identity and a revolutionary, anti-democratic, and ultranationalist movement that strives to achieve a strong, unified nation through authoritarian rule, suppression of dissent, glorification of violence, and rejection of liberal values? I’d like to hear from you, in detail, on this assertion, because it’s still not obvious.

As if citizens should be silenced out of fear of being labelled racist or right wing for celebrating their culture and national identity by bullies such as yourself. It’s absolutely risible.

Not everyone lives in the green and pleasant land bit of the UK

community orchards😂😂 not every where looks like the opening scene of the vicar of dibley

But if people take pride in the areas then no matter what they can be better.

I live in an overall deprived area but people have put in a lot of effort (including creating a community orchard!) into trying to improve the area for everyone living there.

If these people put the effort into improving their area rather than vandalising it then they could make a positive impact.