To be devasted the roundabout in my town has a crappy 'flag' painted on?

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I nearly threw up when I saw it this morning - what a horrible shock.

It's a very small town in the Midlands near a city. Yes it's ex-mining but does reasonable ok now, not deprived eg no contextual offers for my dc for uni, but not massively desirable or trendy. Has a Labour MP now but hasn't always in recent years. Voted for Brexit but only just. In 2019 more people voted against Tories AND Brexit than for them - split the vote so we still got a Tory, but still.

In other words, I did not expect this. It's horrible - looks ugly and badly done even before you get started on the thinking behind it. AIBU to ring the council on Tuesday and ask when they are going to deal with this vandalism?

I did a four hour round-trip on the motorway today too and the amount of flags on bridges was shocking - just make it stop.

Devastated and almost threw up… total drama llama.

You haven't travelled very widely then.

A part of Spain that wants independence from the rest of Spain flys their flag which differs from the Spanish National Flag all over the place and paints it on buildings along with various slogans.

The brushwork is probably very poor. And I can’t imagine that the edging is of a good standard.

But I doubt some shoddy paint job would make me vomit. Maybe the vandals around you are especially bad?

Anyway, it’s not a good use of public property so I do wish they’d stop.

As much as gesture identity politics is annoying, this seems a very odd thing to get worked up about. We have Palestine and pride flag everywhere, makes a bit of a change.

St George was Turkish

That’s because it’s been weaponised by the Far Right. Tommy Robinson is funding this.

I also live in an ex mining town in the midlands. And my family are immigrants. My husband is on a visa. He’s not white. We couldn’t care less about the flags. We’ve lived in a country before this where they lived a flag so maybe that’s why.

Racist connotations to the English flag... in England?

While this is true vandalising things makes you a vandal

Because it’s well used by fascist and racists

Who is funding this couldn't be clearer if they were paying in Roubles

The posts on this thread are unbelievable. It’s right wing muscle flexing. Did none of you study history at school? Sickening.

Are you not English OP?

Boo hoo hoooooo

You nearly threw up 🤣 how do you cope with actual problems 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Maybe it’s time we stopped letting bullies steal the flag for their agenda and saw it just as a flag again a mere simple flag of a country.

As someone said, if it's just about patriotism, why are they suddenly appearing now? It's terrifying what is happening to this country. It's because I am patriotic in my way that this not only frightens me, but really saddens me too. This is not the Britain I grew up in. This is not how we were in the 90s.

They are the human equivalent of dogs that piss up lamp posts to mark their territory.

OP from this description, I'm 90% certain we live in the same town.

Anyway, yes, I'm appalled too. People can say what they want, but the only purpose of this bs is to embolden racism and make people feel unwelcome.

Its not the first time roundabouts have been painted its been done in the past for football

OP, I get what you're saying. AIBU is wild, as always - either deliberately obtuse, or not grasping the background, or most of the commenting lot actually think this way, I can't decide. Regardless, most normal people know this isn't a flag celebration and YANBU.