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.

Me too.

2 pride flags up the road. Palestinian and Ukraine in a few places.

Not a sniff of a St George flag. My neighbour and l were talking about it yesterday. Both united in disgust.

Red cross painted on mini roundabout here; sad that our national flag has been appropriated by Reform supporters and racists. It feels quite sinister - like a warning to anyone with sympathy towards asylum seekers. I think if I was brown skinned I world have a sense of anxiety about the not so subtle racist undertones it suggests

Why don’t you put your own up in your window, then?

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@MzMJ

You’re talking nonsense as usual.

The sort of people who hang out English flags rather than Union Jacks, are nearly all racist nut jobs with nothing but sponge between the ears.

If you want to be proud about being British, hang a Union Jack flag.

If you want to compare this to the USA, it’s the equivalent of the Stars & Stripes versus the confederate flag. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Well I’m definitely not disgusted but I think there is a lot of naivety that these flag displays are all some far right thing. I think a lot of people like them.

I have always liked England because it’s tended not to have flags and symbols as being core to its identity. Now I see it it seems to me that something has gone wrong. It’s the sign of something brittle in our society

Lots here in our northern town, very much associated with anti immigration and nothing to do with pride.

Only the Union Jack that our neighbour has had forever which I can see through their window, they are very staunch royalists though so that is probably why.

Yes they are . I’m brown and Muslim and no the flags do not bother me one bit. It’s just a flag.

An old schoolfriend's mum has painted her garage door as the flag and posted it on Facebook with a rant about "illegal immigrants". She's also put flag bunting up in her front garden.

Because you have to "read" the area and the time.

Put up a St George's Cross at the moment (and round our neighbourhood too), and it will signify you are a racist/reform supporter/anti support for asylum seekers/anti foreigner ... rather than a patriotic supporter of women's rugby for instance. Down the road from us in a different neighbourhood, or in different times, it would be a joyous celebration of pride in our sportswomen/men.

drove home from Cornwall last night and there were several on the bridges all the way up the M5

First ones seen today, other than the usual on a few public buildings. One private flag pole and three on the same bridge.

I haven’t seen any yet, but I’ve been understand that there are some on a bridge which are going to be removed for safety reasons.

I don’t think that a flag at half mast on a lamppost, or some wonky spray painting are particularly patriotic. Surely if you had respect for your flag you wouldn’t do that?

I'm loving the flags, far better than the terrorist supporting flags we get around here for the last year.

No. But there are loads of Palestine flags hanging out of people’s windows.

the mini roundabouts have now got red crosses on them - ah well, they need repainting anyway, the racists have just sped up the timeline.

Drove from North Essex to Liverpool on Friday. I’d say at least 25% of the bridges we drove under had George Crosses hanging from them.

It's somehow become a controversial thing to fly our own flag and people want to reclaim it as a positive thing.

In that case, their timing couldn't be worse! People will associate England's flag with the anti-migrant protests outside hotels, perpetuating the notion that it's flown mainly by the far-right.

North Herts. Flags and someone has been out painting the roundabouts overnight, which will now cost the council thousands to put right.

None round here so far, thankfully.

The only flags I've seen locally are the Ukrainian flag, a yellow smiley face flag and a pirate flag. I love the West Country!

Our local mosque had a Union flag put outside. It’s just a horrible aggressive act. I saw a bloke on twitter was going round and taking them all down, and then selling them on eBay.

Also worth noting that it’s Ukrainian Independence Day today, so there will be more Ukrainian flags than usual.

I was in Clevedon, North Somerset this morning. The white bit of the crossings have George flags painted on them and the town is awash with the bloody things.

Out of interest I looked up the demographic there - 97% white British.

There are a few in my town. We don’t have any illegal immigrants here.

I’m torn. I don’t want people inciting hatred but at the same time, why do I think having a flag up is that? Why are we the only country not allowed to use our own flag?