Consigli del sud -ovest che avvertono mentre si diffondevano Union e St George Flags
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r7egezzg4o
di Ophiuchus171
Consigli del sud -ovest che avvertono mentre si diffondevano Union e St George Flags
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r7egezzg4o
di Ophiuchus171
24 commenti
> Faith Stafford from Ubuntu Counselling Service in Exeter said some asylum seekers and refugees are experiencing “renewed trauma” because of the increase in the Union and St George flags.
> “One of my counsellors, who is usually assertive and well-adjusted, told me she’s avoiding going out in public,” she said.
> “For our clients, the symptoms of trauma, nightmares, blackouts, voices, self-harm, are being re-triggered.”
I remember JSO spraying red paint all over and how they got absolutely hammered by the media.
Should’ve painted red crosses in front of oil giants and planes instead!
If they can’t look at the flag of the country that is granting you asylum without trauma then maybe a question should be asked if this is the right place for them.
I’d take it as genuine patriotism if everyone who I’d encountered online who was for it didn’t rant about immigration.
If “Jack the strangler” started putting up socks on people’s doors, eventually they’re going to associate it with being strangled. Even if it’s just a filthy wee sock.
But ach, trying to explain how it works to someone who downs cans every night is like explaining astrophysics to a house plant.
If they just let it be it would probably fizzle out on its own but buy removing them they are just making it worse.
Someone did a terrible job on a round a bout near me. Trails of red paint as drivers went over it.
Looks more like a scene of an accident now.
Spraying paint on council owned or privately owned property is a criminal offence, no matter the jingoistic intentions behind it.
The far right used to condemn Just Stop Oil for throwing paint around. Now they’re doing it themselves, and justifying it because “Muh Britannia”.
We cannot give in to mob rule and normalise lawbreaking like this if its in the name of nationalism.
Lock them all up and throw away the key.
If the likes of Tommy Robinson try to bring up riots over it like how they were last year, then set the police horses and water cannons on them.
>Faith Stafford from Ubuntu Counselling Service in Exeter said some asylum seekers and refugees are experiencing “renewed trauma” because of the increase in the Union and St George flags.
Mind boggling that this can be included in a serious news article
Just paint the roundabout red. There’s no way their commitment would cover the white paint needed to do the same.
It’s hard to look at a shittily-done cross spraypainted onto a roundabout and see it as a sign of national pride. It’s very much in the “‘Becky’s-a-slag’-on-a-bus-shelter” category.
*Faith Stafford from Ubuntu Counselling Service in Exeter said some asylum seekers and refugees are experiencing “renewed trauma” because of the increase in the Union and St George flags.*
Renewed trauma? What the fck does that mean? They are in Britain. Of course, we’re going to fly our flag.
*”One of my counsellors, who is usually assertive and well-adjusted, told me she’s avoiding going out in public,” she said.*
Tell her to grow a backbone.
Great more vandalism, really makes me proud to be English.
Poorly painted red lines are a great example of British craftsmanship. Perhaps we can get some blue plaques to honour the heroes costing local councils millions.
Me and my family are refugee escaped from religion oppression, we put up Union Jack and St George flag because our neighborhood were taken over by the people we escaped from, and we has to self-censored and pretend we follow the religion to avoid death or mutilation.
St George’s Cross and Union Jack is the symbol of our resistance against oppression, misogyny and homophobia, it represents our dream of Freedom and liberty.
Those people who are graffitiing the flag everywhere recently are not doing so in good faith.
It’s not intended as a display of patriotism, regardless of what they may claim. It’s about intimidation.
It’s such a diss to the flag to reduce it to some half arsed graffiti symbol
Better hide when the world cups on, more enemy flags will be flying . Imagine the trauma and flashbacks, might even cause someone to break the law.
Don’t these vandals know that they are just turning people against them. When the population realises that their **council tax money will be wasted cleaning it all up** and removing paraphernalia illegally attached to lamposts they are not going to be happy.
Allowing far right agitators to co-opt the English flag was probably the stupidest thing we as society allowed happen
The last group of people we should have ever let co-opt patriotism
Big news, you can’t just rock up and start altering the appearance of markings on the Highway network. Or vandalise other public property/signage.
Also, the crosses on roundabouts look fucking shite. There’s one near me that looks like it was sprayed on from a moving car. If I cared that much about the St George’s Cross I’d probably be a bit insulted.
Nothing says pride in your flag like a half arsed job and on faded/scuffed surface.
The flag waving smack of deep insecurity to me. If people thought this was a great country we wouldn’t have to daub red crosses everywhere.
They think it’s patriotism, but it isn’t. Patriotism is working with your fellow citizens to make the country a better place for everyone.
It’s mad, i wonder where did all this sinister flag repression start? I bet it was done in secret to appease some backwards cultures that are incompatible with democratic British culture.
[oopsie](https://bylinetimes.com/2025/08/01/reform-council-accused-of-trump-like-behaviour-over-pride-flag/)
I’m here with my popcorn watching the self righteous brigade slowly realise the pendulum has swung back.
So the country’s flag causes trauma – what about all the bennies?
If your goal was to drive people to the right and cause a divide, it’s a genius campaign because every person on the left decrying this is only going to feed into the narrative that the left hates symbols of English identity.
Criticism of the English flag is not going to endear yourself to the average English person, in fact it’s going to alienate them even further.
Yes you can claim the people behind this are far right, have bad intentions etc, perhaps there is truth there, but ultimately the argument boils down trying to suppress our own national flag and that is what many people are going to take away.
Starmers team for once played the PR game right when he released the statement supporting putting the flag up. However the rest of the left are falling into the trap.