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Neighbour has put up huge Unite the Kingdom flag

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UrticaDioca · 05/10/2025 15:05

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.

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IAmThePrettiestManOnMyIsland · 05/10/2025 18:46

GabrielsOboe · 05/10/2025 17:47

You make a good point.

Where would the liberals place a non-white ‘Unite the Kingdom’ supporter within the Venn diagram?

Would they still be racists, according to those on this thread?

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Oh they do have names for these people but I won't repeat them. This is where the liberals expose their own racism.

ItWasnaMeGuv · 05/10/2025 18:46

ToWhitToWhoo · 05/10/2025 18:43

It's Tommy Robinson and his lot who don't respect our flag. Using it to incite racism and disunity.

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@ToWhitToWhoo disagree. Watch a recent interview he did with Triggernometry on youtube. It changed my views.

LavenderBlue19 · 05/10/2025 18:46

Jeschara · 05/10/2025 15:24

I think you should mind your own business. I am in a mixed relationship and it would not bother me, it is in his garden, and you can do nothing about it.
I dont like the way the flag is being used by thugs but I would not let it get to me.

It gets to me and I'm white British. The owner of the flag is displaying their allegiance to an anti-immigration campaign by a known racist (and proper dodgy as fuck criminal).

Chenecinquantecinq · 05/10/2025 18:47

CountFucula · 05/10/2025 18:26

😂 in what way has he changed?

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Well I don’t know him personally. I should have said his followers have changed. You can shout and scream they’re all racists as much as you like, however the facts are his followers now are mainstream on the whole. Families just ordinary people who understandably have concerns over mass immigration (which btw is a GCSE geography topic looking at the negatives). Before someone bands about RACISM again 🙄

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:50

ItWasnaMeGuv · 05/10/2025 18:46

@ToWhitToWhoo disagree. Watch a recent interview he did with Triggernometry on youtube. It changed my views.

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I’d rather stick pins in my eyes than listen to him speak.

CountFucula · 05/10/2025 18:50

Sasha07 · 05/10/2025 18:43

@CountFucula everyone will have their own reasons. It's ridiculous to think that every person has the same perspective. I'm speaking from my experience, it's surely not hard to comprehend that we all have our own opinions. You're coming across as someone with an us vs them attitude, which is the issue you seem to be against? Good, law abiding people, SHOULD be against anyone, of any background, who harms others.
My perspective is, the OP shouldn't feel threatened, but I don't know their area or experiences. They'd maybe agree too, that we should be proud of living here and against anyone who comes and is a potential harm because of a clash of cultures.

I don’t need to co-opt a nations flag to make my point about immigration. If I did though, it would be a union flag with REFUGEES ARE WELCOME HERE in big capital letters.

Fleetheart · 05/10/2025 18:50

MidnightPatrol · 05/10/2025 15:31

I’ve never heard of this expression in relation to Tommy Robinson until this thread TBF.

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well it is well known as the slogan of the march organised by TR

BluntPlumHam · 05/10/2025 18:50

2dogsandabudgie · 05/10/2025 18:36

That's a bit of a stretch. If you look at houses for sale on line in many areas, plenty have been up for sale long before people started putting up flags. House prices quite often start higher than they are worth. Estate Agents often do this.

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Wishful thinking. If there’s flags hanging in your area drop the price significantly or be prepared to wait a long time before you sell. No one decent wants to be living around that.

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:51

Chenecinquantecinq · 05/10/2025 18:47

Well I don’t know him personally. I should have said his followers have changed. You can shout and scream they’re all racists as much as you like, however the facts are his followers now are mainstream on the whole. Families just ordinary people who understandably have concerns over mass immigration (which btw is a GCSE geography topic looking at the negatives). Before someone bands about RACISM again 🙄

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I don’t know anyone who would give him the time of day. He’s a laughing stock.

CountFucula · 05/10/2025 18:51

Chenecinquantecinq · 05/10/2025 18:47

Well I don’t know him personally. I should have said his followers have changed. You can shout and scream they’re all racists as much as you like, however the facts are his followers now are mainstream on the whole. Families just ordinary people who understandably have concerns over mass immigration (which btw is a GCSE geography topic looking at the negatives). Before someone bands about RACISM again 🙄

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I haven't shouted or screamed.

godlikeAI · 05/10/2025 18:51

Amandasummers · 05/10/2025 15:16

Is it just me or does “now I have to see this fucking flag” some sort of insinuation that you find the flag insulting? You literally live here? Why the offence?

This is just a load of rubbish. If it didn’t mean anything and was so jolly, why is everyone up in arms when anyone suggests taking these flags down? They invariably look bad, flapping about at half mast, and they are intended to make people feel unwelcome. Just admit it and be done. I’d hate to have one visible from my house - there is still half of the country who don’t want this. What about our views?

ToWhitToWhoo · 05/10/2025 18:52

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:09

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

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He didn't; he resigned because Labour lost the election. And that wasn't mainly because of Gillian Duffy. It was mainly because of the economic crisis. In fact, Rochdale was one of the only two seats that Labour GAINED in 2010, admittedly from the LibDems rather than the Tories, and Simon Danczuk wasn't the most shining example ever of a Labour MP, but still one can't blame the Rochdale incident for Cameron.

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:54

ToWhitToWhoo · 05/10/2025 18:52

He didn't; he resigned because Labour lost the election. And that wasn't mainly because of Gillian Duffy. It was mainly because of the economic crisis. In fact, Rochdale was one of the only two seats that Labour GAINED in 2010, admittedly from the LibDems rather than the Tories, and Simon Danczuk wasn't the most shining example ever of a Labour MP, but still one can't blame the Rochdale incident for Cameron.

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Fair enough, and Simon Danczuk was no shining star.

2dogsandabudgie · 05/10/2025 18:55

BluntPlumHam · 05/10/2025 18:50

Wishful thinking. If there’s flags hanging in your area drop the price significantly or be prepared to wait a long time before you sell. No one decent wants to be living around that.

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For years some properties have taken ages to sell so I disagree with you.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 18:57

suburberphobe · 05/10/2025 18:23

No idea who Tommy Robinson is.

Wow!

Personally I like to keep up with what's going on in the world..

OP, I'm sorry you're going through this. I too would be horrified if I had to look at that shite all day. Sending strength.

Really so you don’t know about the 12 year old girl raped by 3 Romanian immigrants as it doesn’t fit your agenda.

Womanofcustard · 05/10/2025 18:57

ToWhitToWhoo · Today 18:43
It's Tommy Robinson and his lot who don't respect our flag. Using it to incite racism and disunity.

The other man holding up the flag with TR is Asian…..

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:57

2dogsandabudgie · 05/10/2025 18:55

For years some properties have taken ages to sell so I disagree with you.

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The flags have only been up for a matter of weeks, so it’s too early to say whether they have any influence on decisions to view. I am planning to move in the next two years and have already discounted numerous towns and villages from my search.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 05/10/2025 18:59

Sasha07 · 05/10/2025 18:22

TLDR: The flags are a stand against the illegal immigrants, the ones who endanger others. See screenshot. Not the guy who runs the takeaway, not the woman who married a British guy and raised a family here etc. It's to put a stop to people like the one in the screenshot... Then getting away with it because 'he didn't know he shouldn't rape children.'

I have Polish and Ukrainian neighbours who have Union Jack and/or St. George flags on display.

I've became friends with the Polish woman and as the conversation went, she's against the illegal immigrants. She doesn't feel threatened by the flags, she loves them. She feels, as many others do, that it's unfair that she, a hard working, came here legally, woman, is being made uncomfortable by random men who seemed to have just turned up from nowhere.
The men, who have no ID, who stare at her young teenage daughters as they pass. The men who, if they ever did anything sinister, would probably be nameless and faceless to ever bring to justice. I'm with her, she's with the many, many others who feel the same. It's not about a divide of England VS The Rest Of The World.

It's British people who were born here, who earned the right to move here, who don't want to feel threatened in a place we call home, against men who don't know or care about our culture. The illegal man who hurt two girls here, stating he didn't know he couldn't do that!! That's who the flag is against. Not anyone who is here to fit in or atleast, do no harm and who pay tax etc.

So no. The flying of flags, atleast around here, are not all from racists. It's not about skin colour. It's 100% about behaviour. In my small town, it was mainly whites as I grew up. Now, we have many Turkish (takeaways and barbers, always busy businesses,) blacks (they have many white friends in the schools and are often seen in work uniforms) Indian, Chinese, Thai... There's never an issue with them. But there is an issue when men who no one knows, or have seen before, start following women. It's caught on video and camera.

Watch the mealy mouthed disgraces of human beings try to pick fault with this.

GabrielsOboe · 05/10/2025 19:00

ToWhitToWhoo · 05/10/2025 18:39

I'd be tempted to put up a Union flag of my own, together with a poster saying 'Unite the kingdom against the far right. Reclaim our flag!'

Go for it OP.

Let us know how you get on.

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 05/10/2025 19:00

PeaceReacher · 05/10/2025 18:57

The flags have only been up for a matter of weeks, so it’s too early to say whether they have any influence on decisions to view. I am planning to move in the next two years and have already discounted numerous towns and villages from my search.

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I'll hlep narrow it down for you then. Brighton. I'm trying to think of a second place for your list, and honestly I think it's just Brighton. Which is so hideously far up its own sphinter it's practically a caricature of a place, so good luck with that.

Petitchat · 05/10/2025 19:00

noblegiraffe · 05/10/2025 18:29

I'll repost this picture of Tommy Robinson with his United the Kingdom flag because it looks like it needs pointing out again that he was deliberately posing with a number 88 bus because '88' is a racist's code for 'Heil Hitler'. Something that Tommy Robinson would be well aware of.

He hasn't changed in the slightest.

Same old, same old......

Do change the record dear..

ToWhitToWhoo · 05/10/2025 19:01

Womanofcustard · 05/10/2025 18:57

ToWhitToWhoo · Today 18:43
It's Tommy Robinson and his lot who don't respect our flag. Using it to incite racism and disunity.

The other man holding up the flag with TR is Asian…..

It's not impossible to be both Asian and hard-right. Ben Habib, for example.

Thingyfanding1 · 05/10/2025 19:01

ChocolatesAndRainbows · 05/10/2025 16:03

Why are you gutted? He’s showing his love for his country and his flag.

...and for Tommy Robinson.

Sasha07 · 05/10/2025 19:01

@CountFucula and that's fine, you do what you feel you want to do. As will others. I don't judge you for it. What do you want me to say?