- Fri Aug 28, 2026 1:30 pm
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Birmingham has become the latest local authority to obtain a court injunction to stop the flag-hanging fuckwits from hoisting their nylon provocations up lamp posts where literally nobody asked them to.
This is very welcome in my view, though I am slightly confused as to why an injunction is required when it is already illegal to hang shit off lamp posts on the public highway without permission. I guess it is because the injunction names specific individuals so is likely to be more effective in stopping the morons from doing more of their shit.
The social media comments on the news are, as ever, a rich feast of moronic idiocy, laced with a goodly sprinkling of racist invective. Most of them seek to confuse a distaste for the racist provocation of illegal flag-hanging with anti-patriotic hatred of our country and “our” flag. There is even the odd (I think genuinely non-satirical) assertion that “you can’t say you’re English without getting arrested”.
At first, I struggled to decide whether these sorts of comment could be characterised as malicious kick-backs from card-carrying fascists, or genuinely stupid failures to grasp the issue by uncomprehending simpletons. Of course, the whole stated “philosophy” of the “Raise the Colours” wankers is that what they do is an entirely innocent and spontaneous manifestation of national patriotic pride, and they will of course be chuffed to note that so many simpletons appear to have swallowed that nonsense.
I’m stiil undecided - but I’m swinging ever so slightly more towards the uncomprehending simpletons explanation, if only because I prefer to hope and trust that full-throated, black-shirted fascism remains a minority in this country.
Last edited by Abernathy on Fri Aug 28, 2026 1:32 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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