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

I’m Scottish & have always thought it sad that the St George flag especially but also the Union Jack have been associated with thugs, football hooligans & racists. In the west of Scotland where I live , the Union Jack is very much associated with anti Catholic sentiment. I’m Catholic & I’m as British as anyone else born here!

In many other countries its perfectly normal to fly your flag but in England it’s seen as political (and not very nice politics either). Maybe people need to start displaying it just because it’s their national flag & not to show dislike of immigrants/ asylum seekers etc. But i guess the far right would just assume people were in agreement with them.

Except the environment.

A few flags is a drop in the ocean on that problem

I don't live in England. But I do contribute part of my taxes to it. Am I allowed to say the sudden enthusiasm for flag hoisting is pathetic?

Come less clement weather, scores of cheap rotting flags won't be good for the environment at a local level. They may add a certain ambience, I suppose.

Maybe they are to see which way the wind is blowing ?

You can say what you like , just puzzles me why you care if you are not looking at them 🤷🏻‍♀️

I care about the people who will feel intimidated by the flags.

I care about the fact that the flag hoisting is being orchestrated by criminal far-right activists with exactly that aim in mind.

What is it when a poster announces their intention to donate to a racist show of strength?

Of course - what's that got to do with anything?

Exactly 💯

I cannot imagine going to any other country in the world and feeling intimidated because some flags are flying. It's ridiculous !!

Context is key.

What an incredibly odd final sentence - typical flagshagger bringing their unrelated bigotry along

Gosh how far we have all fallen

No one really has issues with being proud of flags. Fly it if you want on your property. Except this isn’t what’s happening, it’s being encouraged on a political level for stiring up trouble when in reality most people from wherever they are from in the world don’t care if you want to fly your flag. Seen loads the wrong way tho which speaks volumes to me.

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THIS.

Apart from the run up to the indie referendum we only see them when Scotland football/ rugby matches are on.

Who the F is Billy Bragg on Facebook??!

People who are not white British aren't winning. They feel threatened. But that is the point of this flag flying, so everyone isnt winning.

Only racists and overseas suppliers of cheap flags.

But can you imagine going to Iran (for example) and seeing union Jack flags everywhere? Maybe a few "free Lucy Connelly" banners up?

I have no idea?

They'd be a bit behind the times if they did...

Lol! True!

THEY FEEL THREATENED????? Alot of people are feeling threatened at the minute not just the non white british .. The 14 year old girl who got sexually assaulted and burned with a cigarette when she tried to fend of a non white british man felt THREATENED and has spent her summer to scared to leave her house .