Neighbour has put political banner on his fence

[IonaJ]

Our neighbour’s house has a fence which faces a fairly busy road. He has taken it upon himself to tie a political banner (think ‘vote X’) to that fence.

Before anyone says it, yes I know it’s his property. But said party are divisive and I worry there may be some unwarranted attention as a result.

Do you think we would be unreasonable to politely suggest it is taken down, or to compromise, only put there during election periods?

A Reform banner or flag on a neighbour's property wouldn't bother me. If it wasn't election season, I might wonder if they'd heard news the rest of us weren't privy to, but it wouldn't occur to me to get into a barney with them about it. The only concern I'd have is the attention it might attract from various meat-heads and the increasing number of the permanently enraged (see also Palestinian flags, Israeli flags, rainbow flags etc.) But I'm on the soft left myself and I don't expect to agree with everyone I meet, whether they live in my street or not. That said, it's pretty moot as I rarely have a conversation with my neighbours anyway.

OP is a little worried about the flag attracting people from the nearby social housing, they like to stand near it and be racist on warm evenings.

If it’s on the local Facebook group it’s definitely true.

Putting something in quotation marks doesn't make it any less awful OP.

I'd be willing to bet you have had alcoholics and porn and gambling addicts in your nice area, domestic abusers, hild abusers, middle class parents doing coke, men who pay for sex, criminals doing nice civilised crimes like fraud...they just have the means to hide their issues.

Look at the way you've worded this.....'mix with them' and you say you dont look down on people in social housing.

Well it would round here🤣🤣🤣
Tatton..... in case you were wondering.
The only time in living memory that it's not been conservative was when Neil Hamilton lost his seat for accepting a few hundred quid in a brown envelope.
Is it unreasonable to long for the days when that's as bad as politicians got.

Fucking hell

That’s a bit harsh. Op is justified in not wanting negative attention and possible retribution so close to her home!

YANBU, OP. We have a couple of towns near us where the locals do that and it just makes others avoid those towns.

There aren’t any Labour or Con banners anywhere either.

As long as it's clear whose property the banner is on, why would you even think it would have anything to do with you?

YANBU

OP, people have always put up political banners and slogans. It’s no reflection on you - and it’s normally pretty safe. Political parties take out insurance in case of damage, because it almost never happens. It’s a poor show if our freedom of speech is curtailed to the point that we don’t dare to show our political allegiances in public for fear of the consequences.

Get over yourself and mind your own business.

I think it is the equivalent of wearing a MAGA hat in the USA. It speaks of who you are rather than just supporting a political party so I would dispute his politics are just a small part of his personality as a PP says. He wants to be identified as a Reform voter with all the connotations which go along with that.

On that note I would like to be told one good policy of Farages which is not stop the boats or get rid of immigration which is all friends of mine could tell me the other day. When I pointed out that Farage and his cronies voted against the employment rights bill, deny climate change and seem to want to privatise the NHS through the back door they knew nothing about that.

Can you imagine?
Estate agents could start putting this on the spiel for the house: “Spacious garden with shed, private parking, newly-installed Worcester Bosch boiler. This street is very popular with Reform voters. Early viewing is advised.”

Oh give over!!!! This has to be the most ridiculous thing I've read on Mumsnet in a long time!!!

Given that Reform keep losing MPs, the banner will probably out live the party.

Given that Reform keep losing MPs, the banner will probably out live the party.

Tis true I'm afraid

I really hope you're right. Every post just makes it worse.

So sorry for quadruple posts, not sure what happened!

Your post is so good I read it four times 🤩

Unfortunately it may attract the racists to your street, as well as putting off decent people. But his property, so he can put it up. Although neigbour is clearly thick or racist, probably both.