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.

1984

Nothing you can do about it I’m afraid. Just give that neighbour a very wide berth.

Why does fact the Op thinks her husband is a “standard white bloke” make the descriptor…. Less Odd

Sadly, pirates are not nice people - though the eighteenth century ones were models of democratic rule in their ships: to be captain you had to obtain the popular vote, and loot was shared equally.

YANBU @UrticaDioca.😧

Even if you decided to move, racist flags lower house prices.😕

The OP is clearly not going to do that.

As others have asserted - the neighbour is clearly a racist and must be shunned…

Oh absolutely! I would wager that if the house next door became an HMO, housing 10 foreign men, that the horse blinkers might start to slip.

No, they don't. Many immigrants went on the Unite the Kingdom march (and my own step-grandson who is no racist). Many want to stop illegal immigration and to have rules enforced about legal immigration. It's not racist to think that immigration should be controlled and to the use of the host country.

For those who think it’s ’just A flag’ must be living under a rock as it’s become the face of fascism at this point in time. You can disagree and be objective

It’s only a Union Jack flag. The flag of the country people live in. It’s not personal. Loads of people in other countries fly flags.

I can see why people have issues with flags. But to other the Union Jack is to give the people who use it nefariously, ownership of the countries’ flag. That’s wrong. They don’t own our flag or our country. We’re all better than them. If people use it as normal - then it becomes just a flag. Like all the other flags.

Erm, no, and no.

The neighbour is clearly not guilty of an offence under the act, and those arrested were supporting a proscribed terrorist organisation.

Really….

Muslims can be racist too you know

It's clearly showing support for racist thug Tommy Robinson.

I think you will find that your DC (like my DC who are mixed race) have British passports.

Gullible?

Anyway I thought it was 3million. Tommy’s still insisting it was last time I checked and he wouldn’t lie, I’m sure.

I am sure the “Unite the Kindom” slogan is aimed at Sinn Fein, SNP, Plaid Cymru or Meybon Kernow voters, rather than immigrants. It literally means that we don’t want to Balkanise the country, we don’t support separatists here.

The evidence is the flag. If you display a symbol that makes others feel unsafe, and regard your right to do so as more important than their right to feel safe, that makes you selfish but not a racist. If the group of people who are made to feel unsafe by this symbol can be differentiated by race, then you are selfish AND a racist.

Waiting for @CurlewKate

Thanks though.

Lol!!

It never ceases to amaze me that the flag wavers, who hate being labelled, love lazy generalisations of their own!

What about those of us who would feel as uncomfortable as OP, yet don’t vote labour and live in inner city areas with huge immigrant / immigrant descended populations and have done for most of our lives. Where do we fit in your lazy labelling?

Someone has a Palestinian flag in their window near me. It says 'free Palestine' on it. No-one, afaik, has protested. I am not overjoyed to see it, but we apparently have free speech and I don't know the people. I think much the same will go for a Union flag or an Israeli one - not tested, however.

OH THE IRONY!

Poland has the toughest laws on immigration and does not have the problem that the UK has, because they eject anyone who tries to enter illegally. Poland is about as "far right" as you can get. How ironic.

PS. A cattery that's almost always full won't give two figs that you use another cattery. They won't even know. 🙄

Why is it nasty to want to unite the UK (the united kingdom, after all)?

I am so sorry you have to deal with that OP, whatever anyone says, this sudden bout of flag flying is not innocent patriotism. A brown skinned friend of mine says she finds the flags in our town intimidating. They are thinking of moving back to their home country, taking her DHs considerable specialist surgical skills with them. A loss to the NHS but here we are.

We have some neighbours who are not flying a flag but have outed themselves as very racist in comments about immigrants and also other neighbours who are not white British. I am keeping my contact with them to the barest minimum.

The problem with this blanket definition of 'far right' and 'racist' for everyone who thinks very differently to you on politics and how the future of this country should look, and the state of it today and the causes of it, and how to put it right, is that very very soon you will be living in a country run by far right racists, with massive electoral majority support from millions and millions of far right racists. I mean look at it logically. If everyone who voted for Brexit was far right and racist, (as is often posited) and there were 17.3 million of them and Labour won the last GE with a 'landslide' of only 9.7 million, then given the way the polls are looking at the moment for Reform at the next GE, that's an awful lot of nasty far right racists living amongst us.

And they will be your neighbours. Your relatives. Your mum and dad. Your child minder, half of your netball team, that nice lady that serves you in the newsagents, your postman. Your husband's oldest school friend. Your boss and your mum's cancer nurse. They'll be absolutely everywhere. Racists and fascists everywhere, masquerading as regular, nice people. It's the 'surrounded by idiots' phenomenon. Where you are so convinced of your own righteousness that you'd happily believe every single person in the organisation is a total idiot who is too stupid to know what they are doing, than countenance for a second that the problem might just be you and your way of doing things.

Ah, I believe this poster has posted before - along the same lines about her cattery (six months ago).

As you say - the cattery WONT GIVE A SHIT.