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

Uh oh!!!

Oh @FreezeDriedStrawberries you didn’t name every sport ever played- obviously that invalidates everything you said 😂

Here in Tamworth - you know the town where patriots tried to burn down a hotel full of human beings, every year we have a weekend long St George’s Day celebration. We have jousting displays, archery sessions, Saxon tents and actors playing Saxons talking to the kids about their lives etc. Flags everywhere- it’s fab

We have a long history and where an important Saxon town. That’s civic pride - not shouting at people while wearing a cheap flag, a balaclava and clutching a can of Carling.

Wow ive never heard this statement about black people in parks being paedophiles before?

Oh am I on your list of names that always appear on these threads? Do we get a badge or something?

Im happy to be on it - shows I’m doing something right.

But again you avoid actually answering my point - seems to be becoming a habit

That sounds nice 😊 I dont like balaclavas shouting and carling btw.

I’ve just seen on our Local Facebook page a call to go to London with lots of precious St George’s flags on the 13th September-which so happens to be the day of the anti facism March. What do we think the motive for flag waving that day will be? And what do we think will happen when the ‘happy, just proud to be English, just love our flag’ brigade brush up against the anti fascists?
Anyone that claims not to see this for what it is should be ashamed.

Here, in Lincolnshire, we have proud military celebrations and commemorations. "We have a long history" of not being ashamed to be British. What we don't have, is a radical left group of terrorists, who hate everything the UK stands for, while clutching sledgehammers and posing a threat to national security.

😆 🤣 😂

Oh behave 😂

What do you think Sir Thomas of Luton was implying about a black man being in a playground with his white grandchildren, when he suggested he was up to something.

He wasn’t suggesting he was “up to” buying them an ice cream, was he. That man has had locals turn up outside of his house shouting “paedophile” at him. For the crime of… going to a playground.

Did you have a point - a novel one?

Well, I think Sir Thomas of Luton is a grade A moron, he certainly doesn't represent.

As a white working class woman myself - it's not mine.

He’s coincidentally also a main instigator of the new appearance of flags all over the place.

So we have a full circle.

He is a moron, the people that follow him are morons, the flags are moronic.

Good for you

It's devastating really. I lost family who fought under that flag to stop fascists.

Yes. Flags are morons too.

It’s not mine either- but as you see it’s just dismissed as it doesn’t fit the narrative

Whereas mine was given full acknowledgement

Isn’t mine either. Think we might be approaching a majority of working class women who don’t recognise that lived experience.

For a party that cares soooo much about the safety of women and girls it odd the Farage and his MPs have voted against every bill addressing those concerns such as upskirting and drink spiking 🤔

You can be intentionally difficult.

But if we agree that TR is a moron, anything he organises or gets behind is also moronic.

“Operation Raise The Colours” is therefore moronic.

Flags aren’t the issue. It’s the people putting them up and their reasons for doing it. If you support them going up, you currently support a TR campaign.

That’s up to you, but personally I’d rather stick pins in my eyes.

They are cheerful looking and great when the football's on, but with a hidden message behind them that is not at all cheerful.

We regularly have flags from windows or balconies round here. Usually only the St George cross during football tournaments, other flags the rest of the time. (Lgb rainbow, country flags, blankets as curtains)

Kick harder

Hm?

Oo theres a poem which questions this and discusses/questions the metaphorical meanings of the ‘bit of fabric’. Maybe a GCSE one from a few years ago. Had forgotten about it!