How to deal with the flag flying

[Slightyamusedandsilly]

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This bloke has got it right! I'm going to order a bunch of other flags and put them on the local lamp posts that the neighbourhood racists are monopolising!

it doesn’t bother me. I’m in south London and I haven’t seen any around here. If people want to fly the flag I don’t care. I just find it funny they have to be told to do so and no one was bothered a year ago go wonder why that was…

Isn't it very similar to the Trump supporters wearing sanitary towels on their ears to symbolise devotion to their champion after he was 'shot'?

Don’t see what the problem is. One of my neighbours has been flying his Polish flag for years and no one has ever batted an eyelid. We are in Wales though and don’t usually get as triggered about flags as you seem to in England.

I don’t see the problem. You are English, aren’t you, so why do you have a problem with your national flag? Is it just the national flag you have a problem with or did it bother you when all the pride/Palestine/Ukrainian flags went up? Personally I don’t care. It’s an expression of free speech.

I'm not usually triggered, but you'd have thought the bloody king was arriving, on the first day back at school, the amount of flags flying on the journey.

Those racist symbols aren't nice for POC driving around. They're a visual reminder of racism.

We should be proud of our flag. Other countries fly them without issue. Nothing racist. Its our national flag.

The fact that fascists are the ones flying them is the problem. They've distorted the intended meaning.

I have been wondering is there’s anything I can do as a bit of a counter protest to all the flags that have gone up round mine (and yes it is racist, it’s not just national pride it’s a signal that you support Reform, hate immigrates and generally want to make black and brown people feel shit and unwanted). In my street someone put a poster saying something about us all being one people which I thought was nice, and someone put up blank posters up in their windows which I wondered if that was a thing.

Fascists are not flying them! Are you saying everyone flying a flag is a fascist??! Give your head a wobble. Am tempted to go and fly one now just to irritate people like you a little more. Heard it all now.

It's not about the flags it's about the reasons for flying them.

I think you will find plenty of POC flying flags - my mums Sikh neighbours are flying one!

Not racist at all. 🙄

Don't be so naive. People are flying them because of the campaign 'Operation Raise the Colours', which was started by someone with links to Britain First. The campaign has been co-opted by known racists like Tommy Robinson.

These flags are not being flown due to national pride. They're territorial and the campaign is designed to make people who are not white British feel unwelcome.

Go on then. But if you fly one right now, everyone will think you're a racist 🤷

Such patriots!

It's because we're not allowed to be patriotic that has caused such division and the formation of so many different communities.
Everyone coming here should be able to keep their culture but united under the British Flag.
Successful integration means feeling that you belong and work for the good of your country, not your community. You only have to read the stupid questions on a British Citizen test to see how badly we get it wrong.
Only when immigrants of any nationality also want to fly the flag, will we have got it right.

Sadly the English flag IS a symbol of racism though. Not the case for the Scottish and Welsh flags but it’s been used by far right groups as a symbol of racism for decades. That’s just the reality like it or not.

Just some trivia. It is flown in NI as a symbol and causes so many issues between our mixed communities. It has a different sort of meaning over here. In very protestant areas it will be flown all the time and it will be put up near Catholic areas to intimidate.

Buy a whole bunch of EU flags and smother the lamp posts in them?

It's all about context. I watched Bake Off last night. Union Jack bunting all over the tent - not a problem.

I think that's what is happening here now. I've been to NI and found it disturbing even though I am British and not RC.

I promise we aren't all like that. Most of us don't agree with it, but sadly we still have a very mixed society where a lot of loyalists and nationalists still can't agree :(

You might be ‘triggered’ if you saw hoards of angry, aggressive welshmen going round in huge crowds making threats of violence and hanging the flag everywhere like a 1930s Nazi member trying to get rid of the Jews.

Everyone I actually met was lovely.

Someone round here has got a bunch of flags from pretty much every country you can imagine and hung them with the England flags that had gone up. It's ace 😂 and the flag shaggers can't really complain since they've been on Facebook saying they'd hung the England flags to 'unite the community'. Well what better way to do that than to celebrate everyone's heritage 😁