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've no idea what you mean by "what is blatantly staring you in the face".

What is it that you think that you think is dangerous, and should I be afraid of it, @pavillion1?

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Wiped out?! By what? How?

Are my friends and neighbours, who appear to be busy going about their everyday lives, a figment of my imagination?

No point. PPs spouting about ‘illegal immigration’ just won’t accept that they’re wrong. We’re banging our heads against a brick wall trying to explain the law to them.

This "visual evidence"... is it in the room with you now?

Its EXACTLY the opposite! Am I supposed to believe you over Google and the news??

They don't give a shit about the law.

You've been given the law that says asylum seekers aren't at any stage 'illegal' and choose to believe social media and the right wing press.

No just all the press.

What do you mean?

I mean not just right wing news channels.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dqqj0v1ndo

I think you are supposed to google that ....

Bbc uses the term 'illegal immigration' in the article it states 49,000 illegal immigrants entered UK in the last 12 months.

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They're wrong and you know that now. Asylum seekers are not illegal. Illegal immigrants are failed asylum seekers and people who overstay their visas.

Illegal immigrants are illegal immigrants and they exist.

Yes, I said:

Illegal immigrants are failed asylum seekers and people who overstay their visas.

They do indeed exist.

Crucially, they’re not the people on boats. Yet.

They may become illegal immigrants, but the boat people are just plain old asylum seekers.

It's also unfortunate that the Mosleyite neo-fascist group chose League of St George for their name. They are so far-right that the UK National Front banned its members from joining the League.

Where's the threshold at which simple immigration becomes "MASS immigration"?

It would be helpful to give this some sort of scale, so that we're all clear about the point at which you consider immigration to become excessive.

If racists like the EDL and all the other knuckle-dragging fascists stopped carrying them on marches, people might start to feel differently.

I don't personally feel it's racist, but when I see an England or UK flag on a house outside of a major football tournament or royal jubilee, it makes me wonder if that house is occupied by racists and/or fascists.

If you google images of the National Front marching at the "battle of Lewisham" in the 70's, you might be able to understand why it makes people of my generation feel uncomfortable.

We could house and look after those already here, but successive governments (of both parties) have failed to do so.

I think that anti-fascist march might well be the biggest one yet. I know people who've never been on a march in their lives who are talking about going, including one who's 80.

Do any of them have any idea what it’s for? I’ve been on TR Twitter and I’ve got no idea what they even actually want.