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. 🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇳🇦🇫🇧🇸🇵🇰🇪🇸🇸🇩🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

No, she sounds like she only wants to preserve it if it does exactly what she wants - if not, she won't lift a finger to help it. So patriotic.

Ever been round the Soho Road area of Birmingham?

My ds was a police officer on that patch. Christ, the things he saw. And yes animals being slaughtered in back yards and being walked down the streets.

I will take no offence to all those who say bullshit. I know it’s hard to visualise, but it does happen.

I don’t think your dig at spelling and protestors supports your argument. Of course those are the people who don’t support immigration, they are the same people who feel the affects of this mass immigration. The wealthy who live in their enclaves of security are less likely to be opposed to immigration… I mean who else is going to clean your house?

Well, to be fair, if the British hadn't exported their language and culture to the whole of the rest of the world, we wouldn't have such an issue with immigration now that the rest of the world is becoming uninhabitable. You reap what you sow.

What I mean, is what I wrote.
There is no hidden agenda.

I will happily see any available GP regardless of what colour they are as long as they can treat me.

You obviously have a huge chip on your shoulder about being brown. That isn't anything to do with me so please stop trying to twist my words into a completely different meaning.

I don't recall saying what party I vote for so again I have no idea what you are talking about.

So one more time - if a person is good for the country (regardless of their colour) then yes we should let them in (much like Australia does with wanted skills)

If the person is bad for the country (regardless of their colour) we should not let them in cos the country is a)full and b) in a complete financial mess unable to deal with those already here.

Simple isn't it.

You really don’t get it. Even with all the chaos and upheaval surrounding you, you still can’t see it. It’s amazing to think you cherish this ideal even when all the evidence is staring you in the face that it’s not working.

You won’t like what’s coming down the pipeline. Things are going to get much, much worse, sadly, and you can’t say you weren’t warned by others who can see it coming.

Do you not understand that the issue with small boats is a direct effect of Brexit? It didn’t happen before then. A lot of idiots did vote for Brexit at the urging of Farage et al. So yes, it was voted for.

I agree that previous invasions by Saxons, Vikings & Normans were not voted for.

However, the Windrush Generation were certainly invited. Likewise the many thousands of nurses recruited by the NHS from the Philippines & elsewhere.

I think it’s fairly obvious that people who fly Union Jacks to celebrate D-Day or royal jubilees & coronations are celebrating their country. Many people hang flags at their windows for big football matches. You are either lying or very stupid if you think this is the same. I haven’t seen any new flags flying on people’s own property (like you see in US), just the vandalism of public property. Racists the lot of them.

Well done 👏

The whole thing really boils my piss.

This bullshit. Why does a flag offend you? It' offends me because its not about patriotism. It’s about racism, islamophobia and iignorance.

You don’t want foreigners here — but Britain once colonised a quarter of the world. In 1900, the British Empire controlled over 458 million people — most of them people of colour.

You took land, took resources, and brought it all back to Britain. Even today, the British Museum holds over 8 million objects, many taken from former colonies. But now, people like me are told we don’t belong.

My dad’s family were invited here, paid to come from a British colony to rebuild this country. And now? We’re told to “go back.”

I’ve been spat at. Called slurs. Had eggs thrown at my house. Is that patriotism?

So no — the flag doesn’t offend me.

But what it’s been used to represent? That does.

Real patriotism means facing your past, honouring all who built this country — and making sure everyone has a place in it.

Nope

the two times you said this still remain

Japan is being pressured to open their doors
to immigrants from India. I guess they forced South Korea and Taiwan to learn Japanese ….

Why should people fight and die for values they don’t hold, a nation that doesn’t support them and people who despise them?

Would you?

Wait, is multiculturalism good or a punishment? You make it seem like a punishment tbh.

Oh, so you’re admitting that mass immigration is payback for perceived wrongdoing in the past? It’s revenge…

And you’d like this to happen?

Punishing people for the (supposed) sins of their fathers….

I hope there were the various British flags amongst them because otherwise it kind of personifies the fears of Unite - being a minority in their own country without representation

What a ridiculous argument. History is there to be learnt from and not necessarily repeated. Many things come to mind. Two wrongs don’t make a right. An eye for an eye. The sins of the the father.

The perpetual cycle of the victim feeling victimized and looking outwardly for someone else to save them.

Perhaps if our culture is so unwanted around the globe, people could stop using it.

Let’s start with antibiotics 🙂

Like many people on this tread i have no problem at all with flags being flown on peoples houses and in town centres and for special occasions

and flags hung on car doors and from windows and painted on houses etc

but painting public property is vandalism and people shouldn’t be flying flags without permission on public property either

Climate change activist and pro immigration… how surprising 😂

I very often go out community litter picking. The flags are littering. It’s not good for the environment or local community to have all this plastic trash littering the place. They are polyester which isn’t biodegradable

Yes I must be "far left." Must be.

Just to add. If climate change is a real concern then rising sea levels will either completely obliterate the little mud island we all live on and none of this will matter anyway or we are all going to scramble to the Lake District and then we will see what overcrowding looks like

Ok then