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TFICoffeetime · 25/09/2025 20:49

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. 🙈

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Arlanymor · 25/09/2025 20:53

Well vandalism is vandalism, full stop. Whether it’s a flag, a cock and balls, or a chad. All unacceptable in public spaces. It’s like anything, some people put up flags normally and reasonably and then others take it too far.

It’s come our side of the bridge too which is bizarre - big thing in Maesteg not so long ago, but the police were very good and the community got together to stamp it out: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v7y0rdpwo.amp

Four residents photographed with their backs to the camera inside a dark green bus stop scrubbing off paintwork. Some wear yellow rubber gloves. A red cross can be seen on the back of the bus station, as well as one on the right hand side plastic windo...

Cwmbran community unite to remove St George's Cross 'graffiti' - BBC News

People from Henllys, Cwmbran, spend all day cleaning St George's crosses from around the village.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v7y0rdpwo.amp

OchreSnail · 25/09/2025 20:55

Same thing happened on my street. The flags are currently still up in all the lampposts and it all makes me feel really uncomfortable. I don't feel like these are my people, and I don't trust the ideology behind it.

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

Bambamhoohoo · 25/09/2025 21:01

It’s gross. Like going back to the 70s

Bambamhoohoo · 25/09/2025 21:02

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

this is my country as much as yours so don’t expect me to go just to get away from a load of gammon bullies, mate.

CaptainMyCaptain · 25/09/2025 21:04

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

Why? This is not normal for Britain. It has only been happening for a few weeks. It's vandalism not patriotism.
BBC News - Reighton roundabout sheep sculptures daubed with red crosses - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgjq4n594do?app-referrer=deep-link

TFICoffeetime · 25/09/2025 21:20

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

Lol. Lovely to have a troll on here.

How very Un-British of you. I'm afraid you don't meet our society's values, so please don't think you have claims to this country. Do you want to get rid of people who don't agree with you.
Also noting your name. That's not very Charlie Kirk of you is it. He debated people didn't tell people to get on an airplane because someone disagreed. So vandalism & scaring children is ok then is it. Not like these are being put up in the day time. If you're not doing anything wrong put it up in the day!! Oh wait..too cowardly for that. If you're proud of the flag why is it undercover and with balaclavas on....grow up!!!

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KateKontent · 25/09/2025 21:26

I grew up in NI where flags (aka flegs) can be quite triggering. When I moved to England and seemingly normal people had england flags on their houses I was horrified, but I've become used to it.

Anyway, what you're describing sounds horrible. We've just had some flags hung up where I live. No vandalism or crowds in vans luckily. It doesn't bother me really. But what you're describing would have.

OchreSnail · 27/09/2025 22:20

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

I'm not mad about it here, not any more. But since a bunch of wankers voted away my right to be a European we're all stuck here. Also my views are as valid (and as British) as yours.

ilovesooty · 27/09/2025 22:22

CharlieKirkRIP · 25/09/2025 21:00

The airport is that way if you don’t like it here >>>>>

She didn't say that.

bozzabollix · 27/09/2025 22:26

OchreSnail · 27/09/2025 22:20

I'm not mad about it here, not any more. But since a bunch of wankers voted away my right to be a European we're all stuck here. Also my views are as valid (and as British) as yours.

These people’s stock reply is ‘if you don’t like it move’ while being totally unaware they voted away our ability to do that easily.

The other one is ‘why don’t you house refugees then?’ like we all live in mansions with hundreds of rooms to put people up.

SpigTheFish · 27/09/2025 22:28

Theyre not in my area as I'm semi-rural but on my drive into work, I see them everywhere. Someone has spray-painted tree barks with the England flag, bus stop shelters, roundabouts, road signs, empty industrial buildings. It makes it look like Portugal with all its graphity-ridden buildings. It reminds me of dogs pissing everywhere, marking their territory.

StarDolphins · 27/09/2025 22:28

Obviously trampling flower beds is grim but I don’t mind all the flags.

LadyTable · 27/09/2025 22:33

I think there are more threads about flags than actual flags! 😁

Doingtheboxerbeat · 27/09/2025 22:35

I'm surrounded by them where I live, to the point that they no longer jar or intimate me like they used to , so job done I guess 👍. I also know who's a bell end in advance, and they are exactly who or what I expect.

Sparklesandspandexgallore · 27/09/2025 22:40

If you are going to fly a flag then fly it properly, at full mast. Hanging them at half mast looks absolutely stupid.
Ditto if you are going to daub a cross on a bollard, then at least do it straight. Don’t do it like the ones near me which look like a 4 year old has done.

I can image the type of person who are erecting them.

Lonelycrab · 27/09/2025 22:42

It’s not patriotism

Its nationalism.

The people that support this aren’t intelligent enough to know the difference.

Plus, a cheap nylon flag fixed with cable ties half way up a lamp post is a half mast, and it’s not even a mast. It’s a crap look. As a white British born and bred person they make me feel extremely worried, not proud at all, and all those I know feel the same way.

Flags should never be flown to divide. These ones clearly are.

Choccyegg92 · 28/09/2025 08:05

The flags and what they represent in this state are grim. If people feel patriotic and it doesn't have racist connotations, why come out and do it in the dead of night? Where I live it's also paired with childlike looking crosses painted over speed signs and 'send them back' on direction boards. I can't understand why, if the flag is that cracking, these people haven't been flying it for their whole lifetime?

Amboo13 · 28/09/2025 15:44

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Amboo13 · 28/09/2025 15:47

KateKontent · 25/09/2025 21:26

I grew up in NI where flags (aka flegs) can be quite triggering. When I moved to England and seemingly normal people had england flags on their houses I was horrified, but I've become used to it.

Anyway, what you're describing sounds horrible. We've just had some flags hung up where I live. No vandalism or crowds in vans luckily. It doesn't bother me really. But what you're describing would have.

I’ve family in Belfast who were there during the troubles and I’m familiar with the parts of Belfast where there is a strong sense of division and it is covered in flags. I find this triggering because I know how deep those community divisions run

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