Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

[UrticaDioca]

I am gutted. I haven't seen a single flag in my town, and suddenly this union jack goes up two doors over with the words 'Unite the Kingdom' printed on it in capital letters. The flag is huge and flying from a pole on top of their shed, but it's in their own garden so nothing can be done.

I am the daughter of an immigrant mother and therefore mixed race. Now I have to see this fucking flag waving at me every time I look out of my kitchen or living room windows.

Unite the kingdom is the FB page organising a large proportion of anti immigration protests

So you know of racist violence by flag shaggers.

I didn't say Any brown face will do, that was another poster. I did say all because that's what happened. It wasn't just brown people. I don't see how that makes it less racist.

Respectfully, why do you feel so uncomfortable about a flag?
As the OP has said because they feel that the kinds of people who fly it are racists, and this makes them feel they are unsafe in their community

This country had the good graces to accept your mother into the country so she could make a life for herself and you.
Alternatively, this country had the good sense to benefit economically from migrant labour. I can't imagine 'good grace' had much to do with it.

So why such hostility? Would you prefer to see the nation flag of your mother's native country instead? If so, go and live there, not here.

Because uprooting your whole life and fleeing the country of your birth is the sensible thing to do whenever you object to any aspect of it. That is as rational as saying 'you're sick of the train service being rubbish? Why not leave the country and go somewhere else where it's better rather than stay here and fix the problem'.

Yes really, had never heard of it.

Not sure where I would have - Tommy Robinson related content doesn’t really appear anywhere on my content feeds / news etc!

Gillian Duffy was a bigoted woman. She was from my home town. I never understood why he resigned over that.

It’s literally the slogan of Tommy Robinson’s current racist campaign. Seriously, how may people on here are going to try and justify it / gas light the OP?

OP I’d be pissed off ov my neighbour did this and I’m a white woman. I don’t know how I’d feel of o was not white.
I too live on one of those areas that some MN’ers think are no-go, so you certainly wouldn’t see one here, thank God.

There are a couple of houses nearby with those in their window, and a house near my local supermarket has four in their front garden.

As a Scot in England, with an English DH, we see ourselves as a British family so I’m happy to see a Union Flag,🇬🇧 it’s quite inclusive IMO. My mixed race friend has no issue with it, she’s British and only rarely does she meet the hard of thinking!

The rate of change in some parts of the UK has been very rapid. Grooming gangs, Sharia law, honour killings, and Roma beggars were virtually unheard of 20 years ago. I’m not surprised there is a growing reaction to it.

One area in a city near me is very multicultural, but a big influx of Slovakian Roma has taken years to settle in. The mainly Pakistani residents have been up in arms about the effects on the neighbourhood if very different lifestyles.

Ballymena is a different kettle of fish, not defending the thuggery for a nanosecond, however a local girl was brutally raped by 3 Roma lads, Ballymena has a big roma community who lived in the area for years prior to this. I'd say certain parts of NI are the most dangerous parts of Europe for anyone who isn't born there.
Worse if you have dark skin.

I believe that is called knowing my own worth.

I live on a multicultural street and there are no flags here. Three miles up the road they are festooned everywhere.

It's the flag of this country to be ashamed of it is beyond ridiculous. Good on your neighbours.

You've been on past threads about this very issue.🤯 What's with the denial?

He didn't resign, he just lost the 2010 election. After 13 years of abject failure and then the global financial crash (which we still haven't recovered from btw). People get tired of the same old crap. The crash that's coming is the same can we kicked down the road after the crash.

I would class those who cannot see the issues in this country and try to shut others down as a useful idiot.
All performance no fucking clue.

i would too

You're absolutely entitled to your view.

As others are entitled to disagree...

I didn't know.

I’ve never seen the phrase ‘unite the kingdom’ at all (other than maybe in sort of historical dramas maybe…?), other than in this thread.

If I saw it on a flag I’d have been clueless.

This is also the first time I’ve seen flying union jacks described as racist, previously it was just St George’s crosses.

No ‘denial’, I had no idea.

i hadn’t seen that it was a TR phrase, in which case I would feel so shit. I went back to my hometown yesterday and it was covered in flags and I cried cos I just felt so sad that it’s so hateful and so scared of whats going to happen

Nothing respectful about this racist claptrap

No not really. People change TR is mainstream now I agree 20 plus years ago he could be considered racist.

No it doesn't. You having experienced racism does not mean anyone who flies a Union Flag is a racist. This is simple stuff.

How is Poland dealing with all the immigration lately.
Perhaps you ought to have a look at it.

I can see the issues perfectly well. I still wouldn’t attend a march organised by Robinson, because he is a criminal and a racist.

Isn’t that Facism……the left keep screaming about Fascism so many they would know.