Westminster’s love of flags shows no sign of … flagging. Amid a guerrilla flag movement in the U.K., and rising tensions over immigration and national identity, politicians are desperately trying to show their patriotism — without endorsing the far right.
Spoiler Alert: It isn't working. The politicians are pandering to the far right and worrying foreigners who live there.
There is a gap in the market here for entrepreneurs to produce self adhesive EU flags that can be stick over these mad St George’s flags that are covering our local mini roundabouts and zebra crossings.
One sure way to distinguish patriotism from nationalism: Nationalists have a childish love of symbols ahead of substance.
Isn’t that what they should be doing?