The UK and English flags have sprung up across parts of the country in recent weeks, draped on street lamps, strung out across streets and even painted onto intersections. https://cnn.it/4lOU3CU
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The latter by well funded individuals
aug 30, 2025, 8:15 am • 1 1 • view
The St George Cross (English flag) and the Union Jack (British Unionist flag) have long been associated with rampant xenophobia and far right aggression in English cities, towns and villages. “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel", Samuel Johnson in 1775. Never a truer word spoken.
aug 30, 2025, 9:06 am • 4 1 • view
The flag campaign is nasty, weaponised bit of "little Englander" willy-waving designed to intimidate non-white people and create a false impression of the scale of support for anti-migrant feeling. That's the way I see it, anyway!
aug 30, 2025, 8:06 am • 18 2 • view
And you're spot on. It's rather telling that a lot of the ones putting up flags wear cheap, foreign clothes, drink foreign beer, have a haircut in a Turkish barbers and go on to get a kebab or a curry. All prepared and served by 'foreigners'.
aug 30, 2025, 8:35 am • 6 0 • view
And depend on the NHS for healthcare.
aug 30, 2025, 11:44 am • 3 0 • view
Quite. I replied to say the same!
aug 30, 2025, 12:38 pm • 1 0 • view
It's also hard to understand anti-immigrant folks who need or will need healthcare or social care, which are largely provided by...immigrants.
aug 30, 2025, 9:48 am • 1 0 • view
The latter.
aug 30, 2025, 8:09 am • 1 1 • view
Yeah, we have nationalist buttholes here too 😕
aug 30, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
So why don't reasonable, non-racist, people reclaim the flags for themselves?
aug 30, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 0 • view
Makes a change from endless fucking rainbow flags painted or flown everywhere like we are living in a fucking kids cartoon show
aug 30, 2025, 9:36 am • 0 0 • view
Its weapnized #hate against #immigrants caused bythe asshole #Farage #ReformUK hate #lies against #immigrants
aug 30, 2025, 8:59 am • 1 0 • view
The world is going through a phase of reckoning with each nation's past and promise it seems. Far right extremists want to hijack all these symbols to promote racism, violence, and death. Can these countries find the real meaning of their nation, so as to overthrow these violent dreams?
aug 30, 2025, 8:03 am • 3 0 • view
A country that could elect someone like Boris Johnson, an utter circus clown, in 2019 is hardly something to be proud of.
aug 30, 2025, 8:54 am • 2 0 • view
We aren’t at all proud of that (some of us never were!). He lied to the Queen and was voted out in a landslide in the end. He was good at PR and we ended up HATING him. He can’t go out in public these days. Lying to the Queen is unforgivable. He’s a pariah now.
aug 30, 2025, 9:02 am • 3 0 • view
Well said!
aug 30, 2025, 10:56 am • 1 0 • view
🇬🇧🌨️ A combined force of news outlets have enabled a 'party' of just four MPs to spring up their rancid tosh.
aug 30, 2025, 9:25 am • 2 0 • view
You should visit NI, its been like this for as long as I remember in Unionist areas
aug 30, 2025, 9:19 am • 0 0 • view
Them 2 flags are known around the world as the flag of hate 🏴 & the butchers apron 🇬🇧
aug 30, 2025, 8:15 am • 2 0 • view
That’s because we’ve allowed the haters to own them. If embraced by everyone, the wind is taken out of the hater’s sail.
aug 30, 2025, 8:31 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly.
aug 30, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
I find it threatening, as im sure many other POC and minoritised groups do. MSM are too scared to report how we are feeling about it :(
aug 30, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 8:41 am • 2 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 8:40 am • 2 0 • view
Weaponised racism for the easily led, badly educated, Englishman.
aug 30, 2025, 9:38 am • 0 0 • view
England's version of the continued weaponization of the Confederate flag by Southern American racists.
aug 30, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
What's happening is dem countries are getting tired of migrants getting preferential treatment. You go to work every day for 20 yrs getting up at 5am to build a better country, neighborhood & family and then they give all the public funds to migrants instead of the citizens. It's infuriating.
aug 30, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Across parts of ENGLAND
aug 30, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 9:09 am • 0 0 • view
It’s a sign of unemployment and boredom in a small section of society in England that is captured by easy and vacuous celebrity.
aug 30, 2025, 9:07 am • 1 0 • view
Nothing wrong with showing pride in their flag
aug 30, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Our flags have become symbols of exclusion and rejection. So put a flag of inclusion, celebrating diversity, on flagpoles and teeshirts:
aug 30, 2025, 8:46 am • 0 0 • view
That flag is all but synonymous with white nationalism in the uk. UK 🇬🇧 flags are not. But the England 🏴 flag is basically a far right thug dog whistle. You can get the council to remove your old fridge freezer really fast if you paint a red + on it and leave it outside 🤣
aug 30, 2025, 9:00 am • 0 0 • view
Again, if you need to ask the question then you're missing the obvious answer. Most flag-hangers are "patriots" in the same way most hooligans have always been "football supporters" - there may be some interest, but it's also just an excuse to stir up aggression, intimidation and violence.
aug 30, 2025, 8:24 am • 4 2 • view
It very successfully marks areas of the UK where IQs dip well below the national average.
aug 30, 2025, 8:07 am • 3 1 • view
Says the person with 5 flags in their bio. 🤦
aug 30, 2025, 9:40 am • 0 0 • view
Indeed. They're ranked in order of priority. Now look again.
aug 30, 2025, 9:43 am • 0 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
aug 30, 2025, 11:01 am • 0 0 • view
Utter crap.
aug 30, 2025, 8:31 am • 0 0 • view
All evidence to the contrary. A bunch of brain-dead morons hiding behind their flag hoping nobody notices their naked racism. They're fooling nobody.
aug 30, 2025, 8:33 am • 2 0 • view
I wave the flag. Am I a racist to you then?
aug 30, 2025, 8:34 am • 0 0 • view
Crypto fan so probably
aug 30, 2025, 8:47 am • 1 0 • view
That’s the weirdest reply I’ve ever had. Congrats. 🥂
aug 30, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
aug 30, 2025, 8:36 am • 6 1 • view
🎯
aug 30, 2025, 8:46 am • 1 0 • view
I’d agree. I just don’t think that everyone recently waving the flag is a racist.
aug 30, 2025, 8:48 am • 0 0 • view
Narrow-minded nationalism always - without exception - has elements of racism within it. Some big (like those currently making twats of themselves about refugees) some small. But it's always there, even if most are in denial about it.
aug 30, 2025, 9:08 am • 1 0 • view
It's weaponised English nationalism stirred up by Farage and his fascist Reform party.
aug 30, 2025, 8:07 am • 11 1 • view
I came here to say this
aug 30, 2025, 8:18 am • 3 1 • view
Says a Scottish nationalist waving the Saltire. 🙄
aug 30, 2025, 8:29 am • 0 0 • view
Come on now, you know it's the latter
aug 30, 2025, 8:04 am • 8 1 • view
Why can't they just stay home put their feet up and use one of these.
aug 30, 2025, 1:22 pm • 0 0 • view
We seem to be heading the same way as america..."who,s the biggest shit stirring no idea gob shite we,ve got, yeah, lets elect him "
aug 30, 2025, 8:16 am • 2 1 • view
St George slew the dragon. MS 13 are satanists.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view