I took down some flags and DH wasn’t happy

[LittleChopper]

On my commute today, I noticed someone had hung three large St George flags on a bridge coming out of our village. They have been popping up everywhere but this particular instance I thought “I’m not having that”. On the way home I pulled over and took them down.

when I got home and DH asked why I was binning three large flags I told him and he.. had some interesting opinions. He told me I shouldn’t be pissing off people in the village, that they have every right to hang an England flag in England, and that I’m being too political.

For a start, I would argue that I’ve always been quite strongly opinionated so he shouldn’t be surprised I did it.

Just as others have the right to their opinion I have mine. We have people in the village who are migrants… why should they have to look at that. It’s clear why they were hanging there given what’s going on at the moment and I’ve never see a flag hanging in the village in the decade we’ve been here so why else would they be there now.

I’m just so disappointed with it all. With the UK, with DH.

Next time maybe I’ll add to the collection instead. 🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇳🇦🇫🇧🇸🇵🇰🇪🇸🇸🇩🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Probably. There’s also a pic of a laughing older guy in front of an ad when I scroll down, something about pensions. Seemed apt.

Seriously?

How often do you use it?

When will people realise that insults don't work either?

Most migrants are too busy working, paying taxes and contributing to the benefits being claimed by these flag flyers, ironically.

So you've filmed these people filming your children and reported them to the police, have you?

I've not read the thread, nor am I going to, but just wanted to say thank you OP.

It's not a symbol of racism. People are putting up flags because they want to feel proud of their country and part of a community. Plenty of immigrants and non-white Brits are flying the flag. If you are offended by the flag of the country that you live in, then maybe you shouldn't be living here?

If racist people are targeting migrants with discrimination or violence etc then that's a different problem, and you'll need to address that properly. It's got nothing to do with flags.

Are these the same type of thick, nasty, machete-waving, illiterate, anti-semitic traitorous people who put Palestinian flags all over Tower Hamlets ?

The Council are too scared to take them down BTW.

That isn't what I said at all.

i take it you're a hard working, highly educated brown person who owns a nice house blah blah..........though.

If you are benefiting our country by being here ie you are a GP or something, then you are most welcome and please tell me how I can get a doctors appointment.

If you have come over illegally, have no skills that benefit us and plan to milk us for all the benefits you can get, then yes I don't want you here. Shock horror.

Read the words of the Met Police who released this estimate.

Compare the words used by them to describe the conduct of the Palestine Action demo, Notting Hill Carnival and then Saturday’s march. Then match the words with the incident and arrest figures and you will see there is no correlation. That’s propaganda and you are falling for it hook line and sinker.

I rest my case 🙄

If you're so proud to be English you should be capable of spelling correctly in your own language. And unfortunately you're not blessed with common sense either.

A bit like the Labour Councillor who said that that white people should have their throats cut.....

They're like a ven diagram of:

racist
uneducated
violent

And what would happen if when you tried to rip or cut the flag down it blew out of your hands and onto someone's windscreen, causing an accident?

Would you blame whoever put the flag up in the first place? Or would you take responsibility? I don't think it's the latter.

You mean, you agree with me? Or are all the black and Asian and Jewish people flying the union flag all racist scum in your opinion?

Really, I think if you hate England so much that the mere sight of its flag causes you to feel offended or fearful, then go and live somewhere else. Most people who come here do so because they value what England and Britain has to offer. If you don't, that's fine, but don't try and spoil it for everyone else.

How could it get you into trouble any more than the person who hung it there?

I think this issue will sort itself out actually. Come November budget the shit is really going to hit the fan.
Once the country really starts going to pot surely the immigrants will not want to come here.
UK borrowing rises to worse-than-expected £18bn in August | Government borrowing | The Guardian

Down and down we go, where we end up nobody knows (till November at least...)

Thanks for taking them down!

Mr Jones said his remarks were directed towards far-right activists who he said had left stickers on a train with razor blades hidden behind them

Slightly different from shouting abuse and inciting violence towards anyone with brown skin.

How disgraceful. Would you tell someone with dyslexia that?

In the range of never going to happen hypotheticals...

Idiotic

You'll have to explain what you mean. Because it's not obvious to me. What did the met say that makes you think they're lying about the attendance but not about anything else?

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They're not putting it up because they want to feel proud of their country or want to feel part of their community, because it has the exact opposite effect on roughly half the population - including British people who were born here. You'd have to live under a rock not to realise that.

I bet they'd have something to say if any of their neighbours were hanging, say, a Pride flag, and wouldn't feel like it was simply an invitation to be part of the LGBT+ community.