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

Pearl clutching OR just taking the piss out of something we find truly ridiculous?

Well yes and 'taking the piss' is a very British value that should be upheld!

What are you protesting with the flags?

But why don’t you love your country and the pieces of cloth that represent it? Do better.

I do love my country.

I do not have to show it in a way that YOU approve of.

Flying flags does what exactly?

Does it bring the country more money? Assist the NHS or education? Change policy for the good of the people?

It does NOTHING.

@LakieLady It was actually someone's job to make sure the appropriate flag was flown at county hall on the right day. I only ever saw the England flag on St George's Day, and the Union flag a few days a year.

They are up on all lamposts on a mile (or longer) road and have been for over 2 weeks. I assume these are council property and they have not been removed so I have assumed the council is supportive of it. There is also a white roundabout painted with red cross.

Now this is something British I can get behind!

SARCASM FIRST!!!

My county is over 98% white, according to the 2021 census, and seeing flags here is vanishingly rare.

A pub in town has put a large Union flag above the entrance in the last few days, but it's a big sport pub, so it could be sport related.

The question about loving your country was irony/sarcasm 😂🙈

Puts me in mind of the banging of pots during COVID.
Those taking part were invariably intellectually challenged numbnuts. And it made fuck all difference.

What, like Kensington Market being the cool place for kids to shop in the 70s?(Although thinking about it, I might have bought it at Camden market, we used to go there, too.) .

And if you're making assumptions about my background from a Kensington reference, you're possibly quite off course: I grew up on the roughest council estate in Croydon, until I left home and lived in an equally rough area of Croydon.

How about the St Andrew's flag?

I think they're on to a loser if that's what they believe.

The last British social attitudes survey found that over 50% of people had "no religion".

Elsewhere on t'internet, I saw a picture of a roundabout that had been painted with a cross of St George, but subsequently painted over to look like a watermelon cut in half, with little seeds and everything.

I'm rather hoping this idea catches on. It has quite a bit of scope; I think smiley faces might brighten the place up a bit.

Sign me up for this, please.

What would the Pisstakers' flag look like?

What flags? What are you talking about?

Because its not "cool and popular" to care about the Jews

Exactly this. Nobody will admit it though.

It’s actually not this.

It’s that I personally don’t link the murder of Palestinian children to all Jews. Just like I don’t link the actions of Hamas, to those Palestinian children.

That’s completely not relevant to painting roundabouts with the St George Cross, so quite why it even needed saying I’m not sure.

I don’t mind St George’s flags being put up around St George’s day if they’re there for the right reasons.

UnFortunately it seems to be a racist protest by the “stop the boats” contingent.

Well I think it is though.
The discussion isn't just about st George flags, also about Palestine flags and other flags so it is relevant.

It was on the news last week (a lot) about councils in the UK removing England flags and union jack flags and keeping other flags up such as palestine. That is why brits are putting these flags up now, in revolt to what the councils did. (Or did I imagine all of that??)

Can you just talk me through how England and Palestine are anywhere near the same?

I don’t think people are putting their England flags up in support of Jewish people. Sorry, but I don’t. If they were, there are more appropriate flags.

The Palestine flags are up, again this is an assumption, because of the aforementioned dead Palestinian children. What has that got to do with an England flag?

I didn't at any point say England and Palestine are the same?? Or that English flags are in support of Jewish people i have no idea where you got this from.