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.

He's still racist.

Ant Middleton?

These guys always have their token non white person who is supposed to prove they are not racists. I don’t know where they get them from. He has got Katie cannot remember her last name too on his team hasn’t he?

In the past perhaps the person flying it usually was. And only because we've laboured under a couple of generations of being told that our flag is an embarrassment and to celebrate it is to celebrate slavery and oppression under the empire, etc, etc. And most Brits just like to lie low and not make a loud fuss about anything much, so they kept their patriotism largely un-performative.

Now it's not 'usual' for a flag flyer to be far right at all. Just because people who are far right and racist might align with a particular cause of point of view should not detract from the simple fact that others who share that view are not far right or racist.

After all, Hitler was a vegetarian....

This is something that should be obvious and common sense and yet, it seems to go entirely over the heads of so many people who like to see themselves as more intelligent than the average 'gammon' on the street.

If you haven't listened to what he has to say, any negative comments you make about him are totally meaningless.

This is the current problem with the Left. Rather than engaging with people, listening to their concerns, and making a counter argument if you disagree, you prefer to just insult people.

Calling the majority of people in this country racists and transphobes is not a strategy that has worked out well for the left in the past (Brexit and President Trump) and is exactly the attitude that will end up with Prime Minister Farage.

I keep seeing this 'flags reduce purchase prices' argument but there is absolutely no statistical evidence to support this. Many towns have flags all over the place.

It doesn’t matter. The point you’re all missing is he’s filled a void for people who have legitimate concerns over mass immigration to follow and represent them. Listen instead of labelling everyone racist. If you don’t start listening you will get a very big shock as to where things are headed. People have had enough. The white working class has had enough in particular. Most don’t stick their necks out when everything is going well. Unfortunately over the next few years the economy is going to nose dive. This will only add to the growing unrest.

Your post makes no sense. You cannot hold far right racist views and not be far right racist.

I’d say for now the flags are flying in areas where the house prices are not high anyway.

Yeah I didn’t read any of that beyond ‘march organised in London’ - something similar every other week, never very interesting as a news story.

I never heard the slogan before this thread so I would be tempted to "play dumb" and directly ask them "what does that slogan mean"?

And sort of invite them to end up saying to my face "I don't want you" or "I mean everyone else that looks like you but not YOU" or maybe they would say something vague not what this thread means at all.

So if you dont agree with racists flying racist flags you should Get Out!🤯

Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud @ItWasnaMeGuv.

Oh my god. I despair. And you lot are supposed to be the clever ones?

I’ve listened to him plenty of times. I don’t want to listen to him again.

It's true the majority of these are working class areas which comes as no surprise as the working classes are those most affected by illegal immigration. Flying flags is not reducing house prices though.

There are plenty of affluent areas who have taken part in 'raise the colours' too.

Flying your country's flag is racist now, @TooBigForMyBoots ? Thanks for saying the quiet part out loud .

I know what it means. I also take very little notice of the bible. Everyone judges. Especially people who put flags up. The judgiest of the lot.

But you don't know the people flying flags are racist. Stop twisting people's words.

Maybe talk to them, get to know them. Take people as you find them… you might have another neighbour with the same political views as you who beats his wife or downloads illegal content of children…

Everyone makes assumptions. None more than the flag wavers.

He hasn't changed. He is as racist as he ever was. Sadly, racism has become more "mainstream" in recent years. That doesn't make it any less reprehensible.

Lol at Tommy Robinson being anti-immigration.😆😆😆

He's an actual immigrant. After the UK voted for Brexit, Tommy rushed out, got himself an Irish passport and moved to Spain. He has a lovely villa, expensive holidays and a drug problem all paid for by the racist and the gullible people he grifts off.

If that racist, violent, drug taking skank is filling your void, you need to take a long hard look at yourself.🙈

It is not racist to think that immigration should be controlled, but it would be extremely strange for someone who doesn't have racist sympathies to go on a march organised by a well known racist.

Racism has done the exact opposite of becoming mainstream in recent years. How old are you?

I'm in my fifties.

Things were getting progressively better for many years, but they have been gradually getting worse again imo in the last ten years. People feel emboldened to say stuff now that they wouldn't have dreamt of saying 10 years ago.