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.

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.

Yes thanks, I was being an idiot.

Ive been waiting for the wide-eyed faux concerned disingenuity to surface. Didn’t take long did it?

I find the flags ( any flags ) tacky. It’s the equivalent to yelling people on the street.

Except Support British Farming.

Prior to this, have you had any engagement with them? Any hint they are racist?

It’s fine, the government is pulling together an ICE like team and soon the problem will be sorted.

I get it op, and we have it lowering the tone in our street too, but I know these kind of people and if it’s any consolation I do think they would include you in their idea of ‘Britishness’. It’s recently arrived people who are here to take rather than to contribute is what they fear.

TIL it’s a Tommy Robinson statement.

What exactly do they mean by ‘unite the kingdom’.

A shame if neither the St George’s Cross or the Union Jack can be flown without being assumed as racist now (noting the Tommy Robinson slogan carries more weight).

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

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/04/tories-to-pledge-to-create-immigration-taskforce-modelled-on-trumps-ice

I bet you believe the Palestine flags and marches don’t frighten Jewish people who live here too.

I wouldn't go that far. 😉

Do you know the flag is meant to be hostile/racist? They could be patriotic and just following a bandwagon. I mean I'm not saying they are definitely not raging Yaxley Lennon enthusiasts but it might be best to assume it's not meant in an aggressive way. Unless they've acted in ways that seem unpleasant directly to the neighbours?

Really? I did not know that. Too bad the far right have co-opted both flags.

I'm not a busy body. I don't have a clue about the comings and goings of my neighbours, but it's a huge flag right in my sight line as I'm washing up or sitting eating my dinner from my kitchen table. It's unmissable.

And yes, I will adjust and get used to it. It just went up today so I'm feeling grumpy and sad about it. It has added a little dampener to the happy sanctuary that I've created here in my home.

I’m glad I live in a country which still permits free speech, even for people I dislike who are saying things I disagree with.

Long may our freedoms continue.

I'd hate to have such racist neighbours. I'd avoid them.

Why would you do that? Unite the kingdom is what Tommy Robinson and co call their nasty little campaign.

Thanks for that. I’ll remember to say the same to you if you ever don’t know exactly what is going on in my country.

I will certainly try and tell myself that. I do think that if they were just patriotic then it'd be a union jack without the wording.

Newsflash. You probably do have such racist neighbours. The absence of flags doesn't mean your neighbours don't hold these views.

Great, how much do you bet?

Because I would be happy to point you to other threads where I have stated quite clearly that I think the protests should have been called off this weekend in solidarity with the Jewish community.

You can carry on making all the assumptions that you like, but some of us are as horrified by antisemitism as we are by any other form of racism.

Now, about that bet...

Op why aren’t you able to confirm whether you’ve ever had any engagement with them or got a whiff they are racist before now?

Exactly right. What are the chances that every single person in any street holds only views that you approve of? Zero, I should think.

There Are plenty of things my neighbours do which irritate me, but I keep out of it. The flag won’t be there forever and if you go and speak to him, you will wind him up and he is likely to keep it up longer. How would you have felt if that had been a Palestinian flag, or a European Union flag?

I doubt my neighbours are racist considering both sides are muslim.I live in one of those very diverse areas that some MNers think are no go areas.