Birmingham Rotabouts vandalizzato per assomigliare alle bandiere di San Giorgio

Why would you want the flag to be on something cars drive over?

So we can all drive over it? Whats next? The zebra crossings? How about toilet paper after if you are going to disrespect our flag so much.

Buy a proper flag, not the poundland special missing the eyelets that tear in a few days, buy a proper flagpole to raise it up, keep it clean, bring it down and fold it up when bad weather is about and burn it once it gets too dirty and needs replacing.

Bunch of plastic patriots.

Step 1 Read enough nonsense online to convince yourself that displaying the flag is banned

Step 2 Get angry

Step 3 commit vandalism to protest

Step 4 get arrested

Step 5 return to step 1

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To be fair, they’re just covered in tyre marks half the time and driven over and no one bats an eye. Why are people suddenly making a fuss and caring about them now? So what if two red lines have been painted on them.

That being said, if I was going to put a flag on anything, it wouldn’t be anywhere near the ground. Especially not on traffic related infrastructure.

The fact that our flags are being taken down and then immigrants themselves complain about not being welcomed here. It’s on them to integrate here in the UK. It’s just all so poor.

The irony of ‘English flags being racist’ is that a bunch of EDL thugs paraded the flags around whilst spouting their racist rhetoric and now they’ve tarnished the flag they claim to care so deeply about. Now they cry that the flag they’ve made into some kind of hate symbol is looked at as a hate symbol. You can’t make this stuff up

My main issue with this stuff is that it’s literally flag shagging at it’s absolute finest rather than any bonafide attempt to fly the flag with respect.

I live in Birmingham (well, technically Sandwell council but we have the same thing going on here) so I’ve seen these flags up for a while now, and while I don’t object to the flags per se (the council has several flags up and about the place on flagpoles, for instance and it’s good to see them), I do object to the way they’ve been put up (disrespectfully, and wrong) and the fact they’ve been put up with zero effort, or maybe even less than zero effort, into thinking about what it will look like in two weeks.

Firstly on the respect side, flags and national symbols should generally be treated with respect, because they are worthy of it. The ones I’ve seen have been zip tied, half way up filthy lamp posts (because they’ve not even cleaned the lampposts, mind). So firstly, they’re going to get filthy immediately (disrespectful to fly a dirty flag), they’re at half mast (again, disrespectful without good reason), they can’t be raised or lowered for maintenance to protect them from the weather (again it’s disrespectful to fly a tattered or damaged flag) and lastly and probably most notably, these are lampposts. In the west midlands. That means our scores of feral pigeons and sparrows and wild parakeets are going to shit all over these while perching, and indeed I’ve seen at least 2 absolutely caked in the stuff. This is then on top of some other minor things such as the flags not being illuminated or lowered at night but again we can’t have everything.

So the end result is a national symbol meant be treated with dignity and respect being reduced to a wind damaged, shit encrusted filthy flag in the space of about a month. The kind of stuff you see being done at protests to show contempt for it. Brilliant, just what I wanted to see on my streets.

Secondly on the mindset sit, the places and ways these flags are put up kinda shows everything wrong with the mindset of people putting them up. One I saw was half way up a lamppost with a wild buddleia that was growing out of the base of the lamppost it at the same height. If you really cared about this country and “taking back our streets” you’d maybe consider cutting the buddliea down and cleaning the lamppost first? Or maybe cleaning up the dogshit that people had left underneath the lamppost? Or cleaned the tags off the post? You know, anything at all that actually shows a bit of civil-mindedness or patriotism? But no. Flag. that’s what matters…

Lastly, on the roundabouts… Driving or walking on a national symbol is again insanely disrespectful. It’s literally why it’s used as an insult in a lot of countries to put a flag on the ground and walk all over it, or clean boots or similar with it. I don’t think putting a flag on a roundabout and then driving around on it is any better. Can you imagine if the union jack was being used a floor mat outside a tube station so everyone could wipe the dogshit off on it before they go in?

I like the flag. But it should be flown with respect, and properly, because that’s what it deserves. These people would of been better off putting this money towards funding flagpoles (and a park attendants time) to fly the flag properly at war memorials and parks in the west midlands, the sort of places it should be flown. Instead they’ve done this, in a way that I can only assume is specifically to generate these kind of rage bait news articles. It’s maddening and saddening at the same time.