[davidjay]

And to think, Warsi was once the standard bearer for "Look, that proves we're not racist" Tories.

[Abernathy]

And to think, Warsi was once the standard bearer for "Look, that proves we're not racist" Tories.

She’s become considerably more human since those grim days. She might even regret them.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She's also a lot brighter than I thought she was at the time. Might have been that she was nervous on camera. I read that Dominic Grieve rated her.

[Bones McCoy]

She's OK by me if she riles up that speccy bowlcut twat.

[Oboogie]

Until today I was quite happy that the flag trend had not made it to Chesterfield but then I went running through a village just to the north of Chesterfield which had been flooded with flags. The thing is that most of them had just been stuck on lampposts in such away that the are never going to fly properly. The whole thing looked fairly tacky.

Locally we've remained refreshingly flag free, quite surprising because I know they've already got 'em as they all come out for sporting events.
However yesterday one of our neighbours erected a flag pole and this morning it has a Union Jack flying from it. Bizarrely, this is at the bottom of her back garden and is therefore only visible to her and her immediate neighbours. What's that all about? Isn't 'demonstrating National Pride' rather negated by hiding it at the bottom of the garden?

[Spoonman]

If it continues to be Ulsterised, it's only a matter of time before the kerbstones get painted.

[Andy McDandy]

Pleased to say that Lancaster remains gloriously flag free, save on the castle.

[Killer Whale]

FFS. It was only a matter of time, mind.

Police are investigating after an English flag was painted on a mini roundabout in a Welsh town.

The roundabout near Ysgol John Bright on Maesdu Road in Llandudno was daubed with the St George’s flag, which symbolises the Patron Saint of England.

North Wales Police now say they are making enquiries, whilst the council has condemned the “graffiti”.

https://nation.cymru/news/police-invest ... -in-wales/

[Oboogie]

FFS. It was only a matter of time, mind.

Police are investigating after an English flag was painted on a mini roundabout in a Welsh town.

The roundabout near Ysgol John Bright on Maesdu Road in Llandudno was daubed with the St George’s flag, which symbolises the Patron Saint of England.

North Wales Police now say they are making enquiries, whilst the council has condemned the “graffiti”.

https://nation.cymru/news/police-invest ... -in-wales/

There's one on the mini-roundabout in Sketty, Swansea as well.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Is this not vandalism? Sounds very like "lawless Britain" to me.

[Oboogie]

Is this not vandalism? Sounds very like "lawless Britain" to me.

It's an offence under the Highways Act to alter any road markings. The same law covers attaching flags to lampposts which, incidentally, Robert Jenrick claims has been permitted* when they are Palestinian or Pride flags although, so far, he's failed to produce any evidence.

* I think he said it was in Birmingham.

[Abernathy]

Attaching flags to lamp-posts has never been “permitted” in the way that Jenrick implies, but there has been a recent epidemic in parts of the city (Birmingham) with large numbers of muslim residents, following the 7 October 2023 massacre, the brutal and continuing Israeli response to that, and the general election campaign of July 2024, of Palestinian flags being hung on many lamp standards. The truth, rather than there being some sort of implicit toleration of this,is more prosaic : Birmingham City Council is skint - technically bankrupt, of course - and probably has neither the time nor the resources to pay for crews of workers driving round cutting down flags from lamp-posts. I do think that the far-right’s “raise the colours” flags of St George campaign was at least partly a response to this outbreak of Palestinian flags everywhere.

Permission to hang things on lamp-posts was, curiously, once a thing in Birmingham. Political parties during election campaigns were permitted, on payment of a nominal returnable deposit to the council, to hang “Vote Labour” (or vote whoever) boards on as many lamp-posts as they could in the last two weeks of the campaign. . Truth be told, it was a fuck of a lot of work and I’m certain we really only did it because the other lot were doing it. It came as quite a relief for campaigners on all sides when the council eventually passed a bye-law (which as far as I know remains in force) prohibiting hanging anything on lamp-posts.

[Boiler]

Finding my usual route home closed due to overnight road works, I drove through one of the older "New Town" developments of Peterborough to get back on course. I was somewhat amused to find English flags hanging not from lamp standards... but speed limit signs

I then spotted someone up a ladder under the cover of darkness* tying a Union flag to a lamp standard.

* It was one of these new LED lights so yeah, it may as well have been darkness. Mind you, it's good to see that the orange glow in the night sky over Peterborough as seen from my rural location has now greatly diminished.