England flags

Are you saying they have a right to fly a flag on their property or to put 400 on public property outside other people's houses? There are very different connotations to those two scenarios, and it's the second one we are dealing with right now.

 

Either really. By that logic football fans shouldn't be adorning stadiums with flags and other things then?

It's really not that big of a deal is it? Someone puts a flag up on a bridge or wherever....who is hurting? Doesn't bother me one jot. They've got them every 10 yards down the Mall in London, why do they get to have them, and so many of them?

As long as theyre properly secured and not obscuring sight lines or something safety related...let them crack on.

It's only a phase anyway. People are reacting to a hot social topic, it'll be something else that we're getting whipped into a frenzy about soon. My guess would be that asteroid/UFO Atlas thingy.

 

So it doesn't bother you in the slightest that Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for "raising the colours"? You really think that masked men hanging flags from every lamp post and painting roundabouts, crossings and even walls of churches is pure patriotism? You think the 70 year old being threatened for asking the men hanging a flag on a lamppost right outside his home to stop is ok?

And.. yeah I'm sure these people who are putting up 100s of flags by night to lampposts are definitely securing them properly and safely.

Patriotism is great. But this mass mobilisation campaign is nationalism by any measure. This is not healthy or normal behaviour, and it does not represent the majority of the country. It is a small number trying to send a loud message.

 

If people want to hang a picture of the King up in their house and sing the national anthem to them everyday then fair play to them. If they want to fly the union flag, English flag, Yorkshire flag, rainbow flag, Ukrainian flag, Mozambique flag on their own flag pole at home then I agree with you.

But people painting flags on roundabouts/zebra crossings and draping them from motorway bridges is a political statement, not patriotism. Look at the countries and movements of the past who have rallied behind a flag or banner and used it as a symbol of what they represent. It doesn’t end well once people start talking about patriotism. Look at the Capitol Hill riots not that long ago and what kind of place the US is today.

Personally I don’t want our country to follow in their footsteps because I want what’s best for our nation and all those who call her home. That’s what patriotism actually is, not adorning myself in a symbol so that others recognise me as one of their “gang”.