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What do you think of the flags?

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Latesummersunset · 21/08/2025 18:05

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

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MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:04

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:02

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 .

The school girl that got sent home for wearing a union jacket dress to school on dress down cultural celebration day?

Doingtheboxerbeat · 22/08/2025 18:04

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:02

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 .

To be fair we all know she would probably feel this if a white British man did this.

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:05

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2025 17:44

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.

Please dont come after me with your shit because trust me i will not feel ashamed for feeling how i am feeling ..
Your naivety of what is blatantly staring you in the face is so dangerous.

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:06

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 16:15

I think its a general feeling of community after getting a court ruling to stop a hotel housing illegals.

The term ‘illiegals’ really tells you all you need to know.

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:06

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:04

The school girl that got sent home for wearing a union jacket dress to school on dress down cultural celebration day?

was she attacked to ?

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:06

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:06

The term ‘illiegals’ really tells you all you need to know.

thats fine by me

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:08

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:06

was she attacked to ?

Not sure, all I know is she got shamed by teaching staff at her school and made to feel like some sort of crim. She was like 12.

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:10

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:08

Not sure, all I know is she got shamed by teaching staff at her school and made to feel like some sort of crim. She was like 12.

No that wasnt the same person

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:10

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:10

No that wasnt the same person

I know, im just giving a different example.

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2025 18:14

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:02

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 .

Yes non white British people do feel threatened. That's the point of this racist display.

That girl has been through a horrifying ordeal. Intimidating brown, black Asian and foreign residents in the UK isnt going to help her.

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:15

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:06

thats fine by me

Good as long as you know it’s wrong

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:20

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:15

Good as long as you know it’s wrong

Whats wrong? the housing of illegals or the court ruling?

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2025 18:21

pavillion1 · 22/08/2025 18:05

Please dont come after me with your shit because trust me i will not feel ashamed for feeling how i am feeling ..
Your naivety of what is blatantly staring you in the face is so dangerous.

You're feelings are your feelings. Right now you feel like donating to a racist cause, intent on spreading fear.🤷‍♀️

If you feel ashamed, then own it instead of blaming me.

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:27

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:20

Whats wrong? the housing of illegals or the court ruling?

They aren’t ‘illegals’ if they were they wouldn’t be housed in hotels

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:29

Ok sure, they all have valid British passports!!!! 😂👏

Sweetjain · 22/08/2025 18:30

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:27

They aren’t ‘illegals’ if they were they wouldn’t be housed in hotels

Where are the women and children?

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:31

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/08/2025 18:21

You're feelings are your feelings. Right now you feel like donating to a racist cause, intent on spreading fear.🤷‍♀️

If you feel ashamed, then own it instead of blaming me.

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Resoeted back to the "union jack flags are racist" unbelievable

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:31

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:31

Resoeted back to the "union jack flags are racist" unbelievable

Resorted back to the "union jack flags are racist" unbelievable

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:32

Sweetjain · 22/08/2025 18:30

Where are the women and children?

They don’t put women in hotels and unaccompanied children are in local authority care.

its not illegal to be in the UK without a British passport

CherrieTomaties · 22/08/2025 18:32

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:29

Ok sure, they all have valid British passports!!!! 😂👏

You’re making yourself look really daft here.

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:32

Sweetjain · 22/08/2025 18:30

Where are the women and children?

👏 nobody cares!

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:34

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:32

👏 nobody cares!

I do I work with UASC

MyLimeGuide · 22/08/2025 18:34

ghostyslovesheets · 22/08/2025 18:32

They don’t put women in hotels and unaccompanied children are in local authority care.

its not illegal to be in the UK without a British passport

We KNOW the boats are full of young men!!!

yellowspanner · 22/08/2025 18:34

I think the flags are good. We have them where I live and have had for some time.
I am proud of my country and will happily fly our flag.
If some people feel threatened by our flag then I assume they don't love living here .
And yes the asylum seekers are illegals. They have come here illegally, many for economic reasons .

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