What do you think of the flags?

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Apologies if this has been done already.

I live in one of the areas where the flags were started. We couldn’t understand what they were for until it popped up in the news. Apparently the councils are going to be taking them down.

I don’t really have much of an opinion either way but my concern is that they’ll soon become tatty, fall down and leave a mess everywhere. But it seems lots of people are loving them. They do look quite cheery at the moment.

What do people think?

Yabu - they are a mess/racist/health and safety hazard

Yanbu - they are cheerful and patriotic. Keep them

There's no need for your personal attacks.
I'll allow you to show your true colours without anymore comment.

As you were...

What a lot of drivel. In fact there is an even better word for it. TOMMYROT.

Looks like the Lambrini is going down well.

The flag by itself means nothing. The intent behind flying it is everything.

This. As a PP said.

I hate the flags at the moment. I'm fine with them usually but right now I know what they stand for and it's actually quite intimidating to me, married to an immigrant, with mixed race children.

What gives me the fear is not the fringe racists walking around with their flag 'capes' and shouting 'no lefties welcome', it's the (Tory) councils that are putting them up. This is some high level institutional intimidation to anyone who is not white and English.

The jailbird? Not very patriotic is he, breaking his country's laws.

Oh that’s fabulous - I’m all in favour of a Christmas horse skull bride ❤️

waaaay better that a flag roundabout

You just keep on chucking up the memories tonight ! Bloody lambrini!

If I close my eyes I can still taste the vomit coming back up from that 🫣

😂😂😂😂😂

Dearie me.

Babycham ! 🍸 🤢

Well no, I wasn't - but not every Jew is negatively affected by seeing the Palestinian flag because not every Jew has reason for internalised guilt.

I hate the false naivity on these threads. Nothing exists in a vacuum. On an official building, the union jack is basic decor. Outside a house in Glasgow? I'm avoiding whoever lives there like the plague. It's not the flag itself, it's the intent behind it

Classic! I'm sure every 80s/90s parent shut their teen up with the promise of a 'babysham' at Christmas 🤭. I wonder if it still exists?

Snowball (advookat and lemonade) that stuff went down way too easy ! I bet it was horribly calorific too !

The guilt isn't coming from the persecuted. Yep, we've now entered that zone.

Ooh snowball - a trip down memory lane. The good old days.

Women don’t feature then? Just brave fighting men (rolling wheeliebins at police equals the battles of old).

my grand father - a desert rat and DD veteran would have told this lot to shove their flags up their arses. But then he was in a war fighting that kind of shit.

What have any of these ass hats waving shit placards at hotels ever actually done for England? Volunteered in food banks, worked in the NHS? Actually been in a war?

*perceived persecuted

Bit like perceived genocide.

Good god : 205 calories per 100ml (no wonder I was bloated the morning after 😱)

😆 🤣 we had style back then x anyway, I'm going to raise a toast to Lucy Connolly. I think she's going to be inundated with offers to share her story. I hope she makes a mint.

This. I'm truly shocked at the voting on this thread.

There is no NI flag because it should be part of Ireland

No they’re on facebook complaining about what other people are not doing for them.

Yes.

In nearly every other country, their flags are flown with pride. I have lots of friends in Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, pretty much all of them proudly display their flags. Heck, my Danish friend even adored each and every birthday cake with mini-Danish flags.

I genuinely don't understand why the St George's Cross is so maligned to the degree it can't be flown. I get that for many, football thugs and jingoistic racists have sullied it, but surely the answer is to re-embrace it positively. The more common a site it is, the more it becomes part of usual day to day life.

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