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.

Odd because I can remember Boris and his Brexit bus and his waving Union flags whilst hanging from a wire and everything being oven ready. Remind me how well that went.

I'm sure people said that about the Nazis too.

I don’t understand the connection to this thread.

Please explain.

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

What the fuck are you talking about? Of course that's appalling what happened. I don't live in UK and stuff like that happens here too.
Most immigrants - the ones I know and the masses I don't are law-abiding citizens.

150,000 people "spouting their vile shite"?

Wow!

I don't think Tommy Robinson is famous for being a racist. I think he's a famous for being an anti-Islam activist. There is a difference. Whether he is or isn't racist is almost moot. His main tub to thump is against the creep of Islam in Britain.

I shall partake of a nice glass of wine and take one small sip each time I read a mealy mouthed lefty lover writes the word “Racist”.
I suspect by the time the thread has finished, I won’t just be a bit tipsy but off me tips and singing in the street.
Carry on, as you were.

Good idea 👍

You don’t have to be a lefty to know TR and his supporters are racists. Can’t believe we are even discussing that.

The evidence is not the flag. You are making the assumption that the people putting it up are racist. They may think that immigration should be controlled or that maybe attacking Jews on Yom Kippur is wrong, or possibly that immigrants are extremely welcome but should integrate somewhat and learn the language if they do not yet speak it. None of that is racist.
Unless you speak to people you do not know what they think.
If the Union flag - however presented - makes you feel unsafe then perhaps the problem is yours, not the flag's? It's my flag and possibly yours.
Locally a Palestinian flag is on display, with 'Free Palestine'. It is the flag of a nation run by terrorists who have committed atrocities. I have no problem with it being displayed nor with the views of the people displaying it (though if I were Jewish I might, I suppose).

He's very famous for being racist. He was racist for years before he rebranded his racism as Islamophobia.

His main tub to thump is grifting off UK racists and fools while he takes it up in his villa in Spain. Where he's an immigrant.😱

OK, we can agree to disagree. As far as I'm concerned, there is no question that he is racist. If you don't agree, we will not find any common ground.

They represent what the individual people on them want them to represent.

What do the people on pro-Palestine marches in London every week represent?

I'd be so pissed off.

My local town is covered with them.

Knocks me sick.

I know, it was shocking to see so many racists out in force, wasn't it.

I'm with you.

He's a proven racist, liar and criminal.

He's right at the front of the scum list for me.

I can't believe the number of people on here that think they're anything other than knuckledragging racists.
I'm sorry op that you have these people as your neighbours.
I am horrified by the numbers of these people who walk amongst us.

I'm so sorry these arseholes have caused you to feel like this. It must be awful.

But I genuinely believe that only a minority of white British people have these views. Where I live, a town of approx 20k people in a mainly rural county, I have seen precisely 3 flags. A few miles away, on the main road that runs along the coast, there's a stretch of around a dozen or two. And that's truly all I've seen.

But it makes me feel sad, too. I thought all this shit was a thing of the past, and associated it with the National Front back in the 1970s. I fucking hated it then and I hate it now, and it feels like we've stepped back 50 years. I'm just pissed off that I'm too old and decrepit to go mixing it with racists and fascists like I did back then.

I’m not just talking about TR.
It’s every fucking political thread now.
Doc Brown did a cracking song, “Everybody’s Racist”.

What ahead of those involved in the grooming gangs scandal including the actual child rapists themselves.
Minimising and “white men do it as well post incoming in ….3 2 1

Yes, I agree. Not convinced every Union flag flying supports Mr Robinson. I do think people are tired of what feels like open borders and immigrants who do not want to join the ship, as it were. There have been some unpleasant scandals such as grooming gangs which were allowed to continue apparently to prevent accusations of racism.

Nope, no assumption needed I'm afraid. If I put up a symbol in my garden (let's say a gigantic cock and balls) that others find frightening, and refuse to remove it, I am for sure an asshat. I'm prioritising my choice over their comfort. That said, I'm not in this scenario a racist. The people who will be upset, scared, alarmed etc by this are not differentiated by race. However those who feel threatened by the 'UtK' flag are differentiated by race. As a white British person I don't feel threatened, only embarrassed.

I take it you didn’t hear about the 3 day ordeal of the 12 year old who was abducted drugged and attacked over that 3 day period then.
Indeed what the fuck is this country turning into .

No, I don't or I would not ask. I think the union is under threat in its 300th and odd year, and more than before. It's not nasty to want to keep it united, the most successful and longest lasting union of countries in the world.

It would pay us all to take more notice of what the Nazareen said, I think. He taught that one should treat others as one wished to be treated and be welcoming to strangers as well as pointing out that being judgemental usually rebounded on those who made the judgements.