To think if you care enough to fly the Union Flag you ought to know which way up it goes?

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I drove me mad during the Jubilee celebrations and now the flags have appeared again for the football. I can't believe how many people are flying their national flag upside down.

It goes this way up with the wider diagonal white stripe at the top on the side of the flag nearest the flagpole (or the top left if no pole)

Can you imagine any other nation flying their flag the wrong way up?!

No but then I can't imagine another nation having such a hideously unattractive flag.

I once saw and Orange Lodge march go by with the flag upsidedown. It made me smile.

I personally don't give a frig which way it's "Flown" sideways, inside out, upside down, so what.

How do you tell it's the wrong way up?

My FIL goes mad about this, to the point of going in to places to tell them that their flag is upside down.

I can't imagine giving a toss either way personally.

Sorry, just spotted and followed the link OP - the difference is a bit subtle for me to notice, TBH!

think of wide clocks... the wide white stripe is on the clock wise side of the red diagonals.

I haven't seen anyone flying Union Flags for the football, it's all St George's ones here!

Anyone who flies the British flag to support the English team is clearly a bit silly anyway.

IneedAbetterNickname - its all St George's flags, because it's England in the Euros. Not Great Britain.

yelllowraincoat - quite agree. Happens all the time, and as a non-English British person I get really fed up when people confuse England with Britain.

Clockwise - OK, get that .

Me too, PhylisDoris, me too.

My best moment for that was when an English person asked me if I had an English passport.

Gah.

Well, you learn something every day...it wouldn't bother me though, I mean it's pretty similar no? I'll do it next time though or if I ever fly the flag

I cannot belive the stupidity of some people

When DH represented GB in his sport, we were sent pages and pages a long note explaining exactly how, where and when we were to use and display the flag.

Ever since then I get a twitch when I see it upside down / back to front / whatever.

Oh who gives a crapola, really?

Maybe, in the same way that satanists use an upside down cross, people who worship the anti-Britain use an upside down flag?

It should not be allowed because it is just messy. Isn't it a nautical thing to fly your flay upside down, meaning 'distress'?

Frontpaw, I have a sudden image of herds of Mn rushing, unwanted, to the aid of their neighbours in Harlow or Milton Keynes because of upsidedown flags in windows

It's messy anyway.

It is such an unattractive flat.

Flag, obv.

Freudian slip from looking at my messy surroundings.

What a load of shite.

It would drive me demented. But then so does cutlery not put out at the correct angles on the table, or tin labels not facing the same way on a shelf.