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

A question:

If a group of people were to place hundreds of English flags in a ward like Sparkhill in Birmi Ingham (which is 80% Mulsim) would this be viewed as some sort of patriotic fervour or is as possibly likely a provocation? A reminder that England historically has been dominated by white people and their Christian lineage?

I think this is where councils are coming from. I am sure there are councillors who are aware that the flags are meant to divide communities but they know their removal will cause a backlash with exacerabtes the problem. They are in a bind.

Yes mids2019, as you say, not endearing to Muslims because of its Crusader history. This is exactly why the Right have seized on it instead of their earlier favourite, the Union flag. Its an in situ waving insult, intentionally so.

Surely it's the other way around. You haven't provided any evidence to back up what you're saying but keep repeating "illegals!"

People need to at least say, ‘illegal immigrants’. Even though they are factually incorrect, it’s less dehumanising than ‘illegals’.

Is NI slated on here?

In that scenario, those flags wouldn't last 5 minutes. In fact, they wouldn't be put ip in the first place because there's nobody brave enough - THAT is the problem, which is overlooked by the left, when they bend over backwards to look virtuous. There are many examples of traffic wardens being intimidated in those areas.

Agree or you are racist and get the pile on. I laugh when I see the numerous notifications I get on these threads, like this. I can always predict what the reply will be to my post, especially when I see certain user names.

Complete misrepresentation of why this is actually happening

If the boats stopped forever today, and all the asylum seekers in the UK were "sent back", taxes would still have to rise.

Trying to blame asylum seekers for tax rises is the rhetoric of Farage and Yaxley-Lennon.

As amusingly predictable as your comments and agenda then I guess!

Its not immigration though. Its MASS immigration. Just think about the maths. Its at a level that cannot be sustained...we cannot even house and look after those already here.

Having a different opinion is now called an agenda? My goodness, I knew the left were intolerant but didn't expect you to be so transparent.

It's the same emotional rhetoric that's used on the CITME board.

Well no go área for whites already exist.

Is that for real?

They are unofficial areas though. You won't ever see them outwardly declare them as such.

You don’t know my politics. But yours become clearer with every post.

Indeed..but all the locals know

Should I be ashamed of my political ideology, and my right to freedom of expression?

What is CITME please?

No. But I have seen your contributions on immigration and racism posts. I will say no more.

Sorry, Conflict in the Middle East. It's a dedicated board, discussing the arab-Israeli conflict. It's a conflict that's being going on for centuries but only became popular and trendy after 7th October Hamas massacre.

Racism/being against racism isn't a left v right thing, it's so ridiculous when people come out with "but but lefties".
Unless you're insinuating all people who are right leaning are racist. Which would be just as ridiculous

You have to determine racism is taking place, as a starting point. Flying a flag is not racism.

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