So you know all those union flags that went up on lampposts…

[Quagmireschin]

They appeared one night on the lampposts all down my street. Not debating them by the way - I spent most of last year trying to stay alive so I honestly couldn’t have given a shit.

There is one on a lamppost right outside my house and it’s now tatty and dirty.

I’d love to get up a ladder and take the bloody thing down, but I really don’t live in the best area.

Anyway, when is acceptable to just get the bloody thing down? Everyone who was shouting about them and how great they are has got bored of that now and they just all look so ragged and horrible.

Exactly.

Take them down, replace them. I don’t actually care, but why put them up, make such a song and dance about it all and then forget about them and leave them to rot?

A couple of neighbours think the same but they don’t want to risk taking them down and getting any retaliation from some of the people here that would start a fight in an empty room.

Areas with lots of flags are generally rough. They don't go up in the leafy, well-heeled neighbourhoods. I am living in the North and find flag frequency increases in intensity south of Wolverhampton. I think because there are more brown people to try and intimidate.

I’ll have a look, thank you

Yes, I am just south of Wolverhampton 🤣🤣

Yeah it’s not the greatest area. But what can you do. House prices are going up so much, even here, that it’s impossible to move anywhere that would be much better.

I doubt you will be back, but wishing there wasn't a tatty piece of old fabric flapping in the wind outside your house is hardly obsessing. No matter how many 😂 you put at the end of your sentence.

We’ve recently moved from an area just north of Wolverhampton and we can tell when we’re almost back in our old area, when visiting family, by the flags on lampposts.

I actually counter that.

I live in middle class suburbia and there’s flags down all the roads full of detached houses with front and back gardens, driveways etc.

None down the streets of socio economic difficulty around here.

Me and da hate them. We said it looks like one of those tacky American neighbourhoods where they all openly own guns and point them at people they feel are beneath them as if it makes the some kinda power.

But then I have the openly racist Braverman as an MP so I guess that’s part of the course around here 🙄

Actually you are right. Dh just pointed out there are none on the big estates here.

It’s all on roads like ours, the slightly nicer ones that are move visible and on the way to the centre of town.