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. 🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇳🇦🇫🇧🇸🇵🇰🇪🇸🇸🇩🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thank you , it's a shame my post was deleted. And I'm unsure why it was, maybe it was reported because some people didn't like the truth.

So much for freedom of speech

As I said, 100k or 150k people... so what? It's a drop in the ocean compared to the 12 million people of London. More people would turn up to see Ariana Grande in concert.

So, it's not about proudly displaying a symbol that had been unfairly suppressed, as the part of your post I quoted suggested.

If you now accept that there has not been a long-standing ban on, or cancellation of, the flag, then perhaps we can move past the belittling and facile comments so many posters are making about people being afraid of their own flag and actually talk about what is going on here.

If unity is indeed the aim, I'm sure we can look forward to respectful dialogue and trying to reach consensus.

Precisely!

Please go and read a history book.

These answers are comical

Yes, of course, because the indigenous work-shy population doesn't do drug-running, do they? 🙄

That's what a majority of people want, respectful dialogue. But even the Government have accused those wanting to respectfully voice their opinions as being 'far right' .

It's crazy making.

If you want to be taken seriously, stop making stuff up.

Except when it's Remembrance weekend... Or the anniversary of D Day... Or the anniversary of VE day...etc... Then the racist display of flag-flying & dressing in flag-themed attire is actively encouraged.

Yeah - Stick it to those pesky Germans. But apparently that's NOT racist.

ain't folk peculiar...

Yes exactly. We’ve always had loads of flags around here, on flagpoles, on private property. They look cheerful. It’s not the same as graffiti on mini roundabouts or co-opting the flag by Stephen Yaxley Lennon’s lot to put it up on property which doesn’t belong to them, often with an intention to menace certain groups of people.

You need them more than I do, quite obviously! 😀

And nor should he be ashamed to show his support for the Red Roses. Flying an appropriate flag from his own flag-pole on an appropriate occasion is absolutely fine and bears no similarity whatsoever to what the "Weoley Warriors" have deliberately and cynically started. It is disingenuous for anyone to think so.

No, pretty sure was referring to anyone who doesn't like it should leave.

And that's a fair comment no?

Why are you pretending not to understand OP’s point of view?

So, because white men can also be predators, we should let in thousands of undocumented males, from Countries where rape isn't a crime?

What an utterly bizarre thought process. What are you thinking? Are you even thinking at all?

Yours was the best post on this thread, imo.

I have no idea why it was deleted, you said nothing wrong. We are being erased, aren't we?

The flags are most definitely being used to promote racism. Just stop pretending. Or read a book.

I live up the road from another refugee hotel (not the Bell) and it’s been a non issue to be honest. Some people complained about the hotel residents “loitering” outside but honestly they have no money so they are just coming for a walk and a bit of fresh air, they can hardly go out for a meal or take the family for a day out. In my experience the refugees included families as their children attended local schools.
I’ve seen stories locally about a man following young girls home from school and exposing himself to them, but that person happens to be white.
Not all members of each group are the same.
And don’t most Americans say Happy Holidays because for them the season where they get time off work starts with the double bank holiday on Thanksgiving, whereas they only get Christmas Day off, not Boxing Day? Having lived in a few different countries myself, including the US, you can wish people Happy whatever it is you like, whether you celebrate it or they do, and most people take it as a nice thing.

RTFT 🙄

What was in your post @Lemonandorangecheescake?

The O2 Arena holds 20,000 people. Might need to go back to Maths class.

I don't need to say any more than those incidents are abhorrent, which they are, and should rightly be reported to police and brought to light in the media... Just as the non-white grooming gangs in places like Rotherham should be also.

But there seems to be a real reluctance to speak about this and I can't for the life of me understand why...

@fastingforweightlossI live in London. My kids are at school and are friends with children whose parents come from all over the world. Some of them are refugees, some are economic migrants. They are tolerant and kind to one another and understand and respect each other’s differences. My community is greatly enriched by diversity.

I’m proud that I’m teaching them to judge people on their character and not on their skin colour or where their families originated from.
Multiculturalism is a beautiful thing.

Stop hiding behind hate. Stop using our country’s flag to promote your hate. it’s SHAMEFUL!

What's comical is the only speakers Yaxley Lennon could entice were -

Katie "I wouldn't let my kids go in a play date with anyone called Chardonnay or Tyler" Hopkins

Ant "tax evader extraordinaire and sacked from Channel 4" Middleton

I mean, way to get a message across. 😂

You couldn't make it up.