AIBU to ask about this whole ‘painting flags on roundabouts’ thing?

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England flags have appeared all over my nice town, painted on to the mini roundabouts. What kind of a ‘thing’ is this? Is it a Reform thing, a football thing or a ‘proud to be English’ thing?
If it’s a reform thing, WIBU to go down and add “England welcomes you to our country” to all the red crosses?

Can’t help yourself can you?

It won’t be harmless when motorbikes slip on the paint as it’s not the special paint they use for roads which grips.

Reply to a post on a message board? I think that's the point of these places tbf

You think LGBTQ people and Palestinians in Gaza are in the same bracket as white people in the UK?

This place where the education boards are dominated by private school threads?

Have a little peruse up the thread. My favourite one from this one poster
“no you are” about who was the bigot.

channeling their inner 14 year old with the “I know you are, but what am I?” Type arguments

Good one

That’s the spirit @RhaenysRocks

Out of interest, so you also object to the term "nonce" on the grounds that it degrades paedophiles?

Gammon is a term of abuse for racists - and personally I am fine with them being abused. Do you have a problem with it?

If she had used it to describe all working class white males, that would obviously be offensive. But she clearly didn't. She used it to describe racists who support the spray painting of what is (admittedly unfortunately) a widely accepted racist emblem and rallying point on our public roads in order to disseminate hate and intimidated vulnerable people.

Such acts are fully deserving of abuse.

It’s “taking their country back” because if you remember, back in the good old days that never existed, all mini roundabouts had a St George’s Cross. However, the St George’s Cross was removed by people infected with the woke mind virus because it offended “illegals”. These proud patriots are putting them back, as well as helping the economy by increasing sales of red paint.

It's a political elephant trap. A not terribly sophisticated elephant trap, with a sign next to it saying "this is an elephant trap". A worryingly large number of people are walking into it.

Yep. Virtue signalling champagne socialists.

Union Jacks and St George’s crosses are going up on lampposts across the UK. The Daily Mail called those behind it an “army of patriots.” But the truth is very different.

While there is nothing wrong with flying the nation’s flags, HOPE not hate can reveal that the key organisers behind much of this activism are hardened and extreme far-right activists.

Organised under the banner of “Operation Raise the Colours”, the co-founder of the group is Andrew Currien (AKA Andy Saxon).

Currien is a longtime Tommy Robinson ally and former English Defence League bodyguard. He was jailed for his role in a racist death in 2009.

Currien now works security for Britain First and boasts of supplying 1,000 flags in the last 24 hours to groups in: Wolverhampton, West Bromwich, Worcester, Dudley, Stourbridge
and Staffordshire.

In Nottingham, the group is led by Robinson’s associate, Guramit Singh. He served prison time after he and two accomplices tied up a shop assistant and threatened to slash his throat in an attempted robbery. He now fronts the Predator Hunter series for Robinson’s Urban Scoop.

Britain First itself claims to have provided 75% of the flag stock for teams in Manchester and the West Midlands. Its leader, Paul Golding, bragged: “Most of the flags in this photo are now on lampposts and bridges in Manchester and Birmingham!”

Football hooligan groups are also being encouraged to join in. Numerous “firms” are known to have raised flags in their local areas.

To be clear: there is nothing wrong with flying the Union Jack or St George’s cross. It’s not illegal to be proud to be English or British.

But when convicted criminals, Britain First and Tommy Robinson’s allies are the organisers, we should all be asking questions about what this wave of activism is really about.

https://hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/22/operation-raise-the-colours-organised-by-well-known-far-right-extremists/

not sure if this is sarcasm or not.
on the chance it’s not.
it’s true and something bikers are worried about at the moment.
the markings aren’t just for fun on the road, it’s why there’s so many books for sale telling you about them

Oh my, the Daily Mail. They must have been rifling through their archives and digging through the old copy from the 1930s when they used to refer to Oswald Mosley and his private army of fascist blackshirts as an army of patriots. Yes, that Mosley, that Hitler supporting traitor from the lead up to WW2. If he hadn't been so well connected soocially, he'd have ended his days swinging from a rope.

A Daily Mail owner and chum.

Thank you. Totally nailed it

IMO Brits are sick to death of being gaslit by our leftist Government and left wing ideology permeating the country. They denigrate our country, its values and historic contributions to the world, without ever lauding the good.

And I say this as a person whose mother was an immigrant, who endeavoured to give back to this country, who was proud to become British.

We see throughout our country the two tier policing, the raising of foreign flags, Ukraine, Palestinian without objection or removal by the councils. Yet when we raise our own the St George or the Union flag, the State rains down its venom upon us, tearing down any overt signs of National pride and .....suddenly the raising of flags becomes "dangerous" but only when its our own!

Fuck the councils, the government and woke left wing ideology denigrating our values, history and country.
So the painting of roundabouts is activism against the overbearing State.

the State rains down its venom upon us, tearing down any overt signs of National pride

WTAF are you talking about?

Correction to pp above. This is what happens when people are ignorant of their own history, bored and looking for trouble. That's why they're celebrating criminals as prospective poliicians. Who wouldn't want to live in a country run by the violent thugs 'raising the colours' like cartel gang members? It's not about flags. It's about what thst flag signifies. That's what flags are for, rallying the faithful without words. I have some words for its adherents.

Yes it’s sarcasm. It’s no more dangerous than turning a roundabout or zebra crossing into a rainbow, decolonisation of a street name or implementing a low traffic neighbourhood overnight. Irritating identity gesture politics is now diverse and inclusive, it’s no longer just for lefties. Get used to it and ignore it like the rest of us do.

You'd better try harder with the ignoring. You sound worryingly obsessed.

Talking about immaturity whilst behaving like a bitchy school girl. Nice.

How many white men raped women in the same period?