LOL at the Spanish Easter celebrations - I've been in Spain for a few and the first one I went to I was a bit 
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If more people displayed the flag then it would be recouped and no longer associated with those horrible groups of people.
^This. It is sad that it appears that the English are possibly the only country in the world not allowed to display national pride in fear of being branded racist or xenophobic 
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As English people we often fly flags and recognise St Andrews, St Patricks and St David's days with more prominence than our own national day.
And on Mumsnet, displaying the English flag and expressing pride in being English appears to be one of very few things (along with unclean bathrooms and poor spellling and grammar) that it appears to be acceptable to judge on and make assumptions about. Someone once posted about not buying a house because there was an England flag in a neighbour's garden and everyone else was in almost unanimous agreement that the neighbours were definitely knuckle dragging racists .
Assumptions and generalisations on almost everything else is pulled up - I was told off a few days ago for saying that French people preferred a cooked lunch to sandwches.
But if someone posts about someone else's dirty toilet or that their neighbour with an England flag must be racist, everyone almost always agrees with the OP. And woe betide anyone that makes a grammatical or spelling error.
No matter what they have to say, or what problems they have, if they inadvertently mix up there and their, or lose and loose or any other common grammatical error, they will be ripped to pieces, even if they appear to be troubled etc.