I really want a general feeling here.
I drove down a friend's street today & every single lamppost had English & GB flags. The roundabout at the bottom, that is full of lovely flowers & really pretty had been stamped over and had a spray paint flag over a sign.
This feels horrible.
I'm all for patriotism if people want to put a flag up on their house, garden. But this is feeling awful. The street looked dishevelled & she said that a van arrived in the night. Woke her daughter up & she said there was lots of shouting and honking of horns.
I really feel this is too far. Why do people think they have a right to trample flowerbeds and put up our flag, just because they want it there.
Just feels so OTT & not nice. Also who are putting these up. If you have nothing to hide & want to feel patriotic - fly a flag in your own garden, house window but don't enforce this on the rest of us. Feels like graffiti & I really don't understand the sentiment. If you want to raise a political point, campaign. But to wade into shared spaces, waking people up, and damaging public property. Had the world gone mad.
So what do you think - is the current flag situation unreasonable. Is it driving you mad. I feel sad that people are using the flag in this way.
I'm proud of the English flag, but I don't feel proud of how it's been used & people that are just acting like thugs thinking they own all public places. It's rude. Use your car/van, house garden, not anything anywhere. 🙈