Parents rage at school after teacher told kids 'some see England flag as racist' - "Broadoak School, in Partington, has announced it is conducting an investigation into remarks made during a Friday morning lesson following complaints from parents. The teacher's comments were recorded on video, shared among parents, and then forwarded to the Manchester Evening News. One irate parent stated: "I am livid. Politics and teachers' opinions on either side should be kept out of our children's education."
Hertfordshire news: Labour councillor brands flag raisers as 'criminals, extremists and nonces' - "A Labour councillor has described Operation Raise the Colours as an "attempt by a bunch of criminals, extremists (and) nonces to hijack our national flag". Hertsmere Borough Council's Labour leader, Jeremy Newmark, made the comment at a council meeting on Wednesday last week, prompting gasps from other councillors."
Andrew Fox on X - "Fatal terror attacks in the UK since 1st January 2000. Total killed: 109
Killed by Islamist terrorists: 96 (+2 unconfirmed)
Please walk me through how people waving British flags, the “far right”, and “divisiveness” are the issues the government is most worried about."
Paul Embery on X - "We've had Ukrainian flags flying over public buildings, 'trans' flags flying outside schools and colleges, Palestinian flags on our streets, the EU flag at the Last Night of the Proms, and the liberal left have lapped it up. But when Joe the brickie from Wakefield sticks our national flag on a lamp-post, it's the end of civilisation. These people are beyond parody."
Niz on X - "The marches in London today;
🟥 Overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) men.
🟥 Overwhelmingly (almost exclusively) white.
This is a white supremacist march isn't it?"
Calgie on X - "I reckon white men should actually be given the same right to protest as other people. Sorry if that’s an unpopular take"
It is time to reclaim the immigration debate - "Last Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom march was an extraordinary event. Arguments continue over how many took part. The police say up to 150,000. The organisers have made the preposterous claim that it was closer to one million. It was, however, clearly a very large number, made all the more exceptional by the fact that it was organised by the activist Tommy Robinson. He would normally expect a few thousand to turn up, some of whom would, inevitably, be troublemakers."
Britain’s decent majority are not racist, they’re just terrified of losing the country they love - "A lot of Telegraph readers were at Saturday’s Unite the Kingdom march... Many, like my friend Richard, said the last demo they’d been on was the Countryside Alliance’s Liberty and Livelihood march back in 2002. Richard noted the similarities – friendliness, immense good humour despite the rain, respectful, well-behaved marchers from all walks of life who had come together to wave our country’s beautiful flags because they feared something infinitely precious was going to be lost forever and time was running out. It took guts to be there because the marchers knew they’d be called names. “Fascists,” according to Labour’s Diane Abbott, who was part of a small, furious, Stand Up to Racism counter-protest. “People who genuinely care about our country are not racists,” is how Richard described his fellow demonstrators... Kipling was right. About how slow we are as a people to anger (see the French), about how much rotten government and damaging nonsense we are prepared to put up with until, one day, we’re not. The arrears now are very long. Years and years of people not being listened to. Their concerns about mass immigration not just ignored but stigmatised and silenced. Successive governments have expected us to stand meekly by and celebrate diversity and “inclusion” which appears to mean the exclusion of our culture, our traditions, looking on while towns and cities, handsome municipalities erected by the Victorians, are so transformed you’d think you were in fly-blown, downtown Islamabad. Oh, and pretend that we’re happy about the disrespect to our values lest the police come round to check our views. That was the theme of one of Saturday’s best speakers, 13-year-old Courtney Wright, who was sent home from school in disgrace for wearing a Union flag dress to Culture Day. “You feel like being British doesn’t matter”... After paying generous tribute to the many creeds and colours that make up our society, she said: “British culture matters too. Even though I’m only 13 I already know how lucky we are to live in this country. Millions before us fought to protect it and it’s our duty to love it, respect it and keep it strong.”... In the week that we marked the 85th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, and the astonishing defence of these islands by the Few who fought actual fascists (the average life expectancy of a Spitfire pilot was four heartbreakingly short weeks), such abject weakness felt a lot like treason. But at least all those legal challenges preventing deportation pay for the second homes of Starmer’s human rights chums, eh Keir? For that morally superior, liberal-Left coterie the human rights of young, undocumented male Afghans and Eritreans take precedence over the safety of Courtney Wright and thousands of other British teenage girls. And then politicians and commentators express surprise that so many normal, decent people attended the Unite the Kingdom march. They waved their St George’s and Union flags against a toweringly useless political class who get into office then ignore why they were elected in the first place... All trust is gone. The billions spent on hotels for migrants who broke into our country, billions more squandered on benefits for dependents from the developing world when people born here are kept awake at night by exorbitant winter fuel bills and spiralling food costs. A two-tier justice system that is rigged in favour of “protected characteristics”; white people need not apply. It’s not fair, and in this country if there’s one thing we mind about it’s unfairness. Laurence Fox, the former actor and leader of the Reclaim Party, gave impassioned voice to that sentiment at the march, rousing the crowd as he did so: “This is our home, we have nowhere else to go, and we will defend it and we will not be quiet.”... Quite a few said they had decided to attend at the last minute after the horrifying assassination of Charlie Kirk. A march organised by Farage and Reform would draw an even bigger throng, I suspect... Our flailing state has no answers to this scale of popular discontent, save to characterise it as something it isn’t. So Unite the Kingdom had to be portrayed as a violent, National Front-style rally when only a handful of marchers witnessed any violence at all and people of all races and religions mingled happily... Such scuffles as there were appear to have taken place in a side street after police unwisely kettled marchers next to far-Left protesters. There were 25 arrests. While any attacks on the police are totally unacceptable, 25 arrests in a crowd of 300,000 is a tiny percentage and no weapons were seized. Compare with the Notting Hill Carnival: 528 arrests, 50 of them for possession of an offensive weapon. (A huge success this year because no one got murdered!) Of course, no “unhelpful” comparisons will be drawn with the carnival, nor with the frequently frightening and grossly anti-Semitic pro-Palestine marches, because, in the official establishment version of the truth, only the despised white, working class are capable of racism and “violent thuggery”. Richard was somewhat startled to read he was considered a “far-Right” Tommy Robinson thug. The retired chief executive of a merchant bank, of notably sweet temper, he wasn’t the only reader to send me an angry email... The Overton Window is shifting so fast that people who would never have dreamt of joining such a march now feel compelled to do so... There is hope, dear reader. You can feel we are winning when Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood gives a statement praising flags in the Commons. “The St George’s Cross and the Union Jack belong to us all,” she said. “They are symbols of unity, a kingdom united, and they must never be used to divide us.” Do you think that person is any relation to the Shabana Mahmood who, just a few years ago, told a meeting: “The people that you see holding the English flag most of the time down my neck of the woods will be EDL [the English Defence League] and they are white and they are male and they’re bad people because they want to divide our communities.” She wouldn’t dare say that today"
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan on X - "We must unite against those who seek to divide us."
Will Kingston on X - "When leftists say ‘people who divide us’, they mean ‘people we disagree with’. It’s thinly-veiled authoritarianism."
Tommy Robinson’s ascent was entirely avoidable | The Spectator Australia - "Figures like Laurence Fox and Katie Hopkins, who you might consider to be gobshites, addressed the huge crowd. Yet, despite the decades of provocation fuelling it, the march was remarkably peaceful, even hopeful. Protests aren’t my scene, but I know many perfectly reasonable people who attended, and their presence reflects a growing desperation; we are now way past the point of being picky about who we’re seen with. When the so-called Good People have stanned for Hamas, their sanctimonious finger-waggings about your unsavoury associations lose their sting. What did politicians expect? If you don’t like Robinson, Fox or Hopkins, how about not handing them ammunition? Stop making them right, maybe? For years, the public’s concerns about mass immigration have been ignored, or dismissed as bigotry. Both Labour and the Tories stumbled about, pouring fuel on the fire with one hand while flicking a lighter with the other. The scale of their failure is almost too vast to comprehend. It is a horror-comedy. Vital institutions, corrupted by the divisive DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) industry, have lost all credibility. The police, once a symbol of order, are now a punchline – dancing to the tune of a handful of vexatious transsexuals while minor crimes such as shoplifting and serious crimes such as rape go unchecked. Legislative time-bombs from Blair and Brown’s Labour era, like the Human Rights Act and Equality Act, keep detonating. It’s the Tories, however, who must take the biggest share of the blame. They had years to act, and yet the will to confront these issues never materialised. Dominic Raab’s attempt at a Bill of Rights fizzled quietly out; instead, on the Tories’ watch, the resentful mediocrities of identity politics and grievance culture were handed the keys to the kingdom. And most disastrously, Boris Johnson was elected with a huge majority in 2019 on the explicit promise of reducing immigration – and increased it to its highest-ever level. The Tories seemed to believe that it would be a bit gauche, somewhat beneath them, to notice all this. Too much bother, might be uncomfortable, and people would say nasty things. Ignoring the problems, staying polite, and hoping for the best would magically resolve everything. Can they really be surprised by Unite The Kingdom? It wouldn’t have taken much to change course. A month of bold Commons legislation, reversing Blair’s constitutional vandalism, could have drawn clear lines in the sand. Clare Coutinho MP recently said of the Equality Act: ‘The British people believe in meritocracy; judging people by their character, not their characteristics. We must not fall into the trap of treating legislation as flawless just because it has a nice name.’ It’s taken the Tories 15 years to articulate this basic truth, apparent to everyone with a working brain in 2010. Watching footage of the march, the words of Thomas Sowell occurred to me: ‘The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals; to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives.’ The Unite The Kingdom march is an obvious reaction to exactly this. Yet the establishment persists, even now, in hurling about slurs such as ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ that have lost nearly all meaning. Starmer says he will not ‘surrender the flag’ to Robinson. Such bluster is desperate. The public’s patience is spent. Is it any wonder people are turning to figures such as Tommy Robinson or parties such as Reform? The jury’s still out on whether Reform can deliver. Too many false dawns have left us wary, but the alternative – more of the same, and a sinking into much greater social strife – is unthinkable."
Meme - United Nations Human Wrongs (parody) @UNHumanWrongs: "Horrific sights as the streets of London are invaded by people waving far-right symbols, replacing the traditional Palestinian flags."
Keir Starmer on X - "People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country’s values. But we will not stand for assaults on police officers doing their job or for people feeling intimidated on our streets because of their background or the colour of their skin. Britain is a nation proudly built on tolerance, diversity and respect. Our flag represents our diverse country and we will never surrender it to those that use it as a symbol of violence, fear and division."
Martin Daubney 🇬🇧 on X - "Did Keir Starmer condemn the violence against police at Notting Hill Carnival? Did he condemn violence committed at protests under the Palestine flag? Condemn rising violence committed by Muslims towards Jews? Maybe I missed those tweets?"
Allison Pearson on X - "27 police officers were injured, some of them seriously, during the Black Lives Matter protest of 2020. A WPC was knocked from her horse, fireworks and missiles were thrown @BBCNews called it “largely peaceful”. It’s not possible for the far left to have a violent protest."
Meme - "NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL 2025 423 ARRESTS
PALESTINE ACTION PROTESTS 890 ARRESTS
LONDON PROTEST "UNITE THE KINGDOM' RALLY 25 ARRESTS"
What the numbers REALLY say about arrests at 'Unite the Kingdom' march versus Notting Hill Carnival - "Arrest rates were twice as high at Notting Hill Carnival than the Unite the Kingdom march, figures suggest. Twenty-five demonstrators were detained as tensions flared during what is thought to be the largest Right-wing rally in British history on Saturday. Up to 150,000 protesters, many of whom were draped in St George's flags, brought London to a standstill as they marched through the capital's streets demanding the unfolding migrant crisis is brought under control. Police claimed they faced 'unacceptable violence' as they scrambled to bring the Tommy Robinson-organised event under control, wielding their batons and pinning demonstrators to the ground. If the Metropolitan Police's attendance estimates are correct, it means around one in every 6,000 attendees were arrested – or 1.7 in every 10,000... In comparison, there were 423 arrests over the two days of Notting Hill Carnival last month. Attended by over a million people, that equated to one in every 2,364 partygoers, or 4.3 in every 10,000, being arrested... At Notting Hill Carnival, the Met deployed an army of black-clad police officers to line the streets to keep order at the festival, which has become increasingly linked with violence and disorder. Police also put up knife arches to detect weapons at the busiest entry points and used live facial recognition cameras to locate people on watch lists. No such technology was in use at the Unite the Kingdom march, which began near Waterloo Bridge before making their way to the southern end of Whitehall."
Fr Calvin Robinson ©️®️ on X - "You do not hate the legacy media enough. Trevor Phillips, fairly liberal chap, made a very common sense assessment of the United The Kingdom rally in London. Sly News censored him and took it down. Cannot disrupt the narrative that it was “far right.”"
Zarah Sultana MP on X - "Fascists aren’t welcome in our streets. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever."
Martin Daubney 🇬🇧 on X - "An elected MP calling hundreds of thousands of British citizens “fascists” - in the same week Charlie Kirk was assassinated - shows us how low our elected class has sunk Zero awareness. Zero reflection. Zero understanding they are part of the problem"
Doomer News🚨🥨 on X - ">I hate fascism!
>ok, what do you consider fascism?
>these white men flying the flag of their own country saying that they’d like to remain a country of their own people!
>like Palestine?
>NO! That’s different because they’re brown. Only brown people can have their own countries."
Pippa B 🇬🇧🏴 🚜 ❤️ 🇺🇸 on X - "It’s been CONFIRMED by the Met Police that of the 26 arrests reported by the media only 8 were attributed to UTK British Patriots! 18 arrests were counter protest agitators!"
Concerned Citizen on X - "🚨🇬🇧 Outrage in the UK as Police Officers are now targeting 11 Year Old Kids seen out in public wearing an English Flag. “So you’re targeting my Kids?” The UK has fallen."
Labour’s race to show they love flags would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic - "Amazing what being 15 points in the polls behind Reform and down to a minus 59 approval rating can do to a Labour politician’s patriotic fervour... Anything that promotes pride in our nation, especially (God forbid) England, is automatically deemed to be a symbol of far-Right extremism and almost certainly racist... While we’re talking about flags, let me tell you a story that reveals the truth about our liberal establishment and patriotism, I think. Despite her mummy being in jail, Lucy Connolly’s daughter somehow continued to excel at her chosen sport, golf. So much so that Edie was invited to represent Britain at an international tournament in July. Aged 13, she was the youngest competitor in her category but did well enough to come 14th. All the girls posed with their national flags and Ray Connolly took pictures of them all – Australia, United States, Germany and, of course, his daughter posing proudly with our glorious Union Jack. Ray sent 15 photos to his wife in prison. Lucy said that five had been censored. Guess which girl holding which flag the prison authorities thought was too dangerous to share with the far-Right extremist Lucy Connolly? “That’s how much trouble we’re in as a country, Allison,” Ray said to me. Yes, I think we can agree that a state which picks a child to represent it on the world stage but so despises its national flag, indeed regards it as so inflammatory, so racist, that it cannot be shown to the child’s mother lest she start a riot – well, that country is sick. Get well soon, England."
Starmer’s ‘patriot’ posturing is desperation that is fooling nobody - "The shamelessness of Sir Keir Starmer was on full display this morning, telling his new Cabinet that they are a “government of patriots” just hours before MPs debated for the first time his plan to surrender the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. Just how he managed to declare a newfound love of country while pressing ahead with handing over a vital British asset to a foreign power is anyone’s guess... This is desperate stuff. Choosing to fight on the home ground of your opponents is strategic lunacy, and could only come from a sense that Labour are in deep trouble... To most ordinary people patriotism is about being proud of your country, standing up for its reputation when it is criticised, defending its institutions and traditions. But much of the Left feels deeply uncomfortable with this. They believe that national identity is an imperialist relic, standing in the way of a wonderful international brotherhood of man that would sprout into being if only we dissolved the borders. Just look at their responses when they are asked to discuss what they love about Britain. It’s all progressive buzzwords like the NHS, tolerance, and diversity. This is a slight-of-hand that redefines patriotism to mean mean allegiance to socialist principles, behaviour and institutions. It flies in the face of what most people mean by patriotism: which is to say pride in nation’s history, glories and traditions, and a desire to see the country prosper above all else... When a government minister appears on television to inform audiences that the rights of foreign asylum seekers to local hotel accommodation must trump the rights of residents not to have such accommodation in their communities, it’s clear that any contest on patriotism is not going to be won by the Left. Labour has in fact never been liked arguing for red-blooded patriotism, at least not since the generation of Labour politicians who fought in the Second World War faded from the scene. A party whose members are instinctively pacifist and hostile to borders cannot, with any credibility, out-patriot Reform. So it shouldn’t even try."
I was arrested after refusing to remove my Union flag – I thought I’d be the next Lucy Connolly - "Wearing a pink top with “The Only Way is Epping” emblazoned on it, carrying a Union flag, she addressed the crowd. “We assert our fundamental right to protest peacefully,” she said. “A right woven into the fabric of our history.” Essex, White went on, “once repelled a Napoleonic invasion”. “We will not consent to governance that endangers our communities.”... Arriving at the civic centre, White says she walked up the steps and hung her Union Jack flag over the balcony. The crowd was cheering, and raising a flag gives people “a bit of pride”, she says... Meanwhile, clips of her arrest had gone viral on social media. Many assumed she had been arrested for flying a flag, a claim the police later refuted... “She was arrested on suspicion of breaching a Section 14 order as we sought to de-escalate a highly emotional situation. To be very clear, despite suggestions we’ve seen on social media, she was not arrested for flying a Union Flag on the Civic Centre.”... “They’re saying I’ve broken the rules by going up the stairs,” says White. “If I’d broken into the civic centre or climbed up the outside of the building and ended up on the roof I’d understand that. “Every time we march there we put a flag there, we do a speech from the stairs, and have photos taken on the stairs. If it was out of bounds, why didn’t they put a barrier there?”... “People love to put you in a box, and luckily enough I’ve got thick skin and if doing what’s right gives me a far-Right label, you’ve got to put it to one side, don’t think about it. Because, what does far-Right really mean? I’m not a Nazi. I’m not looking to kill people, I’m looking to protect people. How can that label me as far-Right? If as a mother you want to stop women and children getting sexually assaulted…”"
How silly. Doesn't she know that the right to peaceful protest is only for left wing approved groups like Palestine Action to hit people with sledgehammers and break into military bases and damage equipment, not for far right extremists to wave flags (and do nothing else)?
We should be plastering the St George’s Cross all over England, not pulling it down - "As British as it sounds, Ralph Road bears almost no resemblance to what used to be England. Like so many other inner-city areas, it has turned into something else: an amalgam of Karachi, Kabul, Dhaka and other far-flung lands thrown like a grubby blanket over British-built houses and roads. Grubby, because the local authority has failed so dismally to resolve a long-running industrial dispute with its binmen, and rubbish is literally piling high. The filth – from rotting meat tossed in the gutter and swarming with flies, to filthy mattresses, soiled nappies, bits of cardboard, polystyrene, plywood and plastic bottles and bags – points to a near collapse in standards of public behaviour and administration in this part of Birmingham. While residents in more affluent areas have found their own solutions, people here have neither the will nor resources to clear it up themselves. Dressed in a grey shalwar kameez, an old man with a long white beard, chapal sandals and a topi cap stands on a street corner trying to sell plastic jewellery from a wonky shopping trolley. How he ekes out a living from the trinkets is hard to imagine, but neither he nor his rudimentary street stall look out of place in an area known locally as “little Pakistan”. Almost every retailer and business has a foreign name, from the “Pak Supermarket” grocery store and “Al Madina Halal Meat and Poultry Centre” to the “Zara Khan” Pakistani dress boutique and “Mama Sheeryakh”, a café which specialises in “authentic Afghan handmade ice cream”. Where exactly are we? As an outsider, to wander around Alum Rock in Saltley, an area two miles east of the city centre, is to feel like an alien in one’s own land. According to official statistics, almost 94 per cent of the 28,000 population of this council ward is black, Asian or minority ethnic. Some 15 per cent speak little to no English. Unemployment is sky-high. In the most potent symbol of the erosion of British cultural identity, the only flags on display are Palestinian. Hoisted high on lamp posts, bleached by the hot summer sun, the now familiar red, white, green and black symbols seem to be everywhere, fluttering defiantly above shops, from makeshift poles on street corners and stuck to sitting-room windows. It is what has happened to areas like this, and a sense that they are rapidly expanding at the expense of traditional white, working-class communities, that is driving mounting public anxiety about our national identity. The wholesale transformation of places where money was always tight but British patriotism was unquestioned has not happened suddenly, but is accelerating with the arrival of thousands more undocumented foreigners with no pre-existing ties to this country every week. The seismic demographic change raises profound questions over what it means to be British, and whether the scale of immigration (both legal and illegal) is slowly but steadily eroding our identity. What was once a source of British pride – widespread tolerance and even celebration of cultural differences – is giving way to very different feelings over changes that have begun to feel like a threat. In Alum Rock and many places like it, churches are in danger of becoming redundant – Saltley Methodist Church, a building estate agents describe as a “striking example of early 20th-century ecclesiastical architecture”, is up for auction, while St Matthew’s has been turned into a “business centre” – and replaced by mosques. In communities such as this, Islamic courts are often used to resolve disputes, earning the UK a reputation as the “Western capital” for sharia law... As fearful authorities in Birmingham and London tear down our own symbols of civic pride, Palestinian flags (theoretically illegal in public places, without express permission, because the UK does not recognise Palestine as a country) continue to fly high. Watching public bodies bending over backwards to respect cultures and identities other than our own, voters despair. Why can’t our leaders see that the raising of British flags is not an act of aggression, but a cri de coeur from a “native” population that feels subordinated and unheard?... It is now 20 years since Tony Blair began retreating from the monster he and his party unwittingly created when they put multiculturalism at the heart of their policy agenda. Reeling from the terror attacks of July 7 2005, the largest mass casualty event in the UK since the Second World War, Blair issued a kind of rallying cry for our country. In a speech that overturned decades of Labour ideology, he warned immigrants they had a “duty” to integrate, and told them they should adopt our values – or stay away. What actually happened in the two decades that followed was the reverse. Successive prime ministers continued to allow vast numbers of foreign nationals to move here with little to no requirement to embrace, or even respect, our way of life and norms."
Lily Allen: Only acceptable time to fly England flag is World Cup - "Allen also remarked that St George himself would have ended up in a migrant hotel."
We're still told that left wingers don't hate their countries
Lily Allen has appointed herself the high-priestess of English self-loathing - " Only in England could the sight of the national flag cause such pearl-clutching hysteria. In America, the Stars and Stripes are everywhere: on porches, including my own, outside schools, draped across pick-up trucks, even printed on beach towels. The French, Italians and Spaniards think nothing of waving theirs with gusto. But in England? The poor St George’s Cross now needs a trigger warning. The latest outbreak of fainting fits comes courtesy of celebrities, Lily Allen chief among them, joined by Ellie Goulding and other liberal commentators who appear horrified at the idea that the English flag might be flown in England. Patriotism, for them, is not a harmless show of pride but a sinister code. Ordinary people putting a flag outside their house? That must mean racism, nationalism, or, God forbid, working-class pride. It is the absurd inversion of modern England: we are embarrassed by our own national identity. The flag is not a unifying symbol, but a mark of shame – as if to love your country were some outdated provincial tic. Meanwhile, the cultural elite reassure us that it is more virtuous to stay quiet, head bowed, eternally apologetic. Lily Allen is, of course, the perfect high priestess of this creed. Born into the warm embrace of Keith Allen and Alison Owen, she was born at the summit of the greasy pole, skipping the climb entirely. She loathes the phrase “nepo baby”, calling it sexist, though one can’t help but notice how accurately it describes her rise. And yet here she is, positioned as the authentic voice of the downtrodden, speaking on behalf of a country she abandoned for years for Brooklyn lofts and Broadway cameos. It is almost touching, how little self-awareness is required to pull this off. What makes her crusade against the flag so exasperating is not simply that it is ill-judged, but that it is hypocritical. She lectures England on how it ought to behave, but lives far from the realities she so freely diagnoses. For ordinary England fans, the St George’s Cross is not a declaration of war, but shorthand for football, family, and the chance to belong to something greater than oneself. For Allen, it is a prop for her latest moral performance. She sneers at patriotism, scolding the same public whose affection – and money – underwrote her career. The irony is that the English flag is one of the few things left that actually does unite people... But in England, the cultural gatekeepers will not allow it. They insist that patriotism alienates minorities, when in reality it is their constant suspicion of national pride that does the dividing. If anything, the flag could be a bridge: a reminder that whatever our politics, our backgrounds, our squabbles, there is still something shared. The uproar over the English flag tells us less about the flag itself than about the insecurities of those who despise it. For Allen and her fellow celeb globetrotters, sneering at patriotism is a way to prove their sophistication. For the rest of us, it looks very much like disdain. The St George’s Cross does not belong to celebrities, politicians or activists. It belongs to millions who fly it not out of hate but out of pride. Until England stops apologising for its own flag, we will remain the only country in the world embarrassed by itself."
Meme - *Union Jack*
Soyjak: "Flag Shagger!"
*EU Flag, Palestine Flag, RAINBOW FLAG, QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOUR FLAG, BISEXUAL FLAG, PANSEXUAL FLAG, TRANS FLAG, GENDERQUEER FLAG, GENDERFLUID FLAG, NON-BINARY FLAG, ASEXUAL FLAG, DEMISEXUAL FLAG, AROMANTIC FLAG, AGENDER FLAG, LESRIAN LABRYS FLAG, LIPSTICK LESRAN FLAG, POLYSEXUAL FLAG, INTERSEX FLAG, LESBIAN FLAG, LIPTTICALES FLAG*
Soyjak: *Excited*
Alex James on X - "If raising your own country's flag is seen as an act of rebellion, then maybe your country is under foreign occupation."
St George's Cross sprayed on Reading mosque treated as hate crime - "The spraying of St George's Crosses on a clothing and shoe bank outside a mosque and Islamic centre are being investigated by police as hate-related criminal damage."
Isn't it racist and Islamophobic to say that Muslims can't be English?
Meme - "People in the UK are now spray painting the England flag onto rubbish left in the street so the council will collect it within 24 hours"
