What are your thoughts on the English flag campaign?

[purplepoppy]

Across England local authorities are having to tear down illegally raised English flags from lampposts. People who put them up claim it's just a display of patriotism while others believe it's far right racists stirring up tensions.

Personally I think it's the equivalent of dogs pissing up lampposts to mark their territory. But what's your opinion?

Public patriot display

Racists stirring up shit

[Shiprex]

It's the gammonatti at their rage movement that blames people not like them (furriners) and not the other people not like them but who tell them it's the furriners causing the troubles they experience of high housing, living and life costs.

The ironic thing about it is that it's the people telling them it's the furriners who are ACTUALLY causing all the troubles by redistributing wealth to themselves and not the hammonatti themselves.

[RavVid]

I approve of anything that gets up woke noses and has them sniffing racism in the most minor of things.

Anything that puts them into an apoplexy has to be good. Oh my, they are getting upset by St Georges cross - the old flag of England. That's enough to make any normal person to bang up as many as he/she can buy.

Hmmh, maybe my woke might be upset by the Southern Cross Flag. Excuse me I need to get onto Temu.

[RavVid]

Thanks for an MHO

[FreyaRed]

I don't think it's against the law since it's official flag of *English national team. It's not like specific German flag used between 1933-1945 with red background and black well being symbol in white circle.

* for those who don't know, England, Wales and Scotland have separate national teams in FiFA and UEFA competitions, while other countries have just one national team.

[acooke-13]

It's definitely racists stirring up shit or they would already display them, not just now.

[jshm2]

LOL, these same fuckwits would not put up Great Britain flags... only English ones.

Hence it's just insecure, American style fuckery, trying to pretend its "patriotism".

As a Scotsman, I would have no issues fining and destroying each and every one for violating building laws (you need a council permit to plant a flagpole).

Plus it classes as "littering" and "graffiti" to post/tie unauthorised shit onto public buildings and works.

[acooke-13]

Would you put up a Great Britain flag?

[Anonymous]

It's a weak form of protest, pathetic really

I mean to quote Orson Welles 'bah, the French' but they know how to organise a ruckus

Last time they were kicking in windows and burning offices across Paris, before that the farmers crippled the road network with parking tractors etc. across them

Compared to the farmers protest in London, Jeremy Clarkson talking to the BBC and everyone else doing sweet Fanny Adams

You have tractors, get some chains and pull parliament into the Thames
Go home, grab your.12 bores and have an ammonium nitrate whipround and do what Fawkes failed to do 4 centuries ago
Raise the roof, sink the shell and pick off the survivors especially if they are associated with Seig Heil Stalinmer, nonce master general

[mstbooblover]

No idea, but I'm always suspicious of people too eager to display flags of any kind. Iove your comarison this and dogs marking their territory ;0)

By the way, the plain fact you're asking this question means there's doubts about the real purpose of this flag festival on lampposts. Could this be a plain local particular event to show where something cultural is supposed to happen?

[DonaldDarko]

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[D_Bone_Steak]

Patriots. Operation Raise the Flag is in action and I fully support them over there on that side of the pond.

[DeeDeeDeVour]

Why are they all raised halfway up only?

Did somebody die?

[purplepoppy]

That's as far as the ladder could reach

[Miristheiss]

Racist? It is ENGLAND. How are British CITIZENS racist within their OWN COUNTRY, by displaying their OWN FLAG?

That concept, in and of itself, is offensive.

[blackeagle007]

People are dumbasses

[Clear_Skies10]

I don't know enough about England to understand the political reasons for putting flags everywhere, and why it would be a racial issue.

[Chazmatazz269]

It’s only a “racial issue” because leftists don’t utilize critical thinking anymore. If they disagree with anything that you say or do, they ignorantly declare that you must be racist, sexist, etc. It’s literally people who simultaneously insist that they are the educated elites resorting to name calling because they can’t support their nonsense with critical thinking and empirical evidence.

[Amur8711]

They are tired for they country being overrun of foreigners that don't want to assimilate into the British culture. Also they are tired of Palestine flags being flown and allowed to stay up but theirs are being ripped down.

Double standards.

[Surely]

Do the complainers fly their own country’s flag. Since probably most are illegal anyway.

[Dargil]

Looks like a flap of northern Ireland without the added decoration.

[Anonymous]

Why are some some English so thin skinned that they are offended by citizens wanting to display their country's own flag?

[AngryCarl2]

It's only happening in areas with a largely diverse population. That should tell you something.

[Snakeyes7]

Imagine outlawing your own country's flag from being raised. The UK is truly cooked.

[Anonymous]

I would prefer Celtic flags:

[purplepoppy]

I like the combined celtic flag. It's growing in popularity

[Opinion Owner]

I agree.

[qwerty2469]

I fucking love it. I want to fly the English flag and im an American colonist of Irish descent that hates England twice over

[onedarkcloud]

Civilization is in the first stages of collapse.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Some is U. K. patriotism, some white nationalism.

[pierre7i]

They're flags of 'England' not the 'UK'

[beefcakebradybatson]

@pierre7i OK, because there are the Sottish Independence Party and various Irish anti-English groups.

[pierre7i]

What?

[exitseven]

It looks like the natives are restless.

[Anonymous]

Why are the English the only ones that can't be patriot without abusive remarks

[robocop666]

I want more irish flags here too.