Flag Row a Birmingham: St George’s e Union Jacks ‘potrebbero mettere a rischio le vite’, dice il Consiglio | LBC
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag-birmingham-st-george-union-jack-5Hjd95g_2/
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Flag Row a Birmingham: St George’s e Union Jacks ‘potrebbero mettere a rischio le vite’, dice il Consiglio | LBC
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/flag-birmingham-st-george-union-jack-5Hjd95g_2/
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Our council was the same for Jubilee Street Parties. They were telling celebrants not to attach flags nor bunting to street furniture in case it fell down and garrotted someone. The possibility of bunting weight was also cited as a possible cause of lamp-post collapse!
I suspect we’re not allowed to link to it here but if you go find the ukpol thread on this story the top comment is from a local resident saying that there have been Palestine flags flying all around the area for years with no action from the council. It’s almost like flags on lampposts aren’t actually dangerous and this action is not really about health & safety at all. A clear double standard against a symbol of the nation Birmingham happens to be in.
I was in Norway for their “Constitution Day” a few years ago. A wonderful celebration of patriotism and so many Norwegian flags everywhere and throngs of happy, proud people. Made me wish we could be like that in the UK. When I think of the St George flag and lately even the Union Jack I think of it wrapped around a bunch of knuckle-draggers firebombing hotels and destroying people’s garden walls to use the bricks to throw at police. Unfortunately the far right have successfully weaponised our flags, with the help of a number of self-serving politicians. It’s all very well for those people who say that decent British/English people must reclaim them but how exactly? I think the damage has been done. I can just about tolerate the sight of the Union Jack at royal events and maybe the Olympics. Other than that I don’t want to see them to be reminded how many mindless yobs we have in this country.
I live in one of the areas where these sprung up overnight. It’s a quiet residential suburb and because there are always a shitload of bizarre assumptions whenever birmingham is in the news:
– Main reaction from people has been vague bemusement and asking what they’re for. Nobody is particularly bothered or upset.
– No, there aren’t Palestinian flags or any other flags on lamp posts or anything, most you get really is England flags around sporting events but even then usually just in people’s windows.
– It’s a mostly white area if that matters at all
– the only controversy or anything have been local Facebook groups working themselves into a froth about how you can’t fly the flag in this country without people getting angry. Again, the only people getting angry seem to be the people saying you can’t fly the flags, which have, until this, been flying fine without much more than a “is there a parade or something” comment in shops.
Isn’t Birmingham the council that failed to sort out the bins for months on end so there’s enormous piles of rubbish and rats all over the streets? Is that not a more important and real safety risk?
Or if they’re like every other council in the country, they’re presumably also failing to fix pot-holes, again a far more serious and realistic danger to life than say, a flag.
This is jobsworth nonsense, *probably* just that rather than two tier enforcement that is intentionally targeting England/UK flags, but it’s certainly bad optics and feeds into the feeling of being unfairly targeted that white working class people feel.
And if it’s true that Palestine flags have been affixed to lampposts in a similar manner and been left up then it’s hard to avoid that conculsion.
I agree that we should be proud of the union jack and stop the attempts by reform to co opt it
Don’t be fooled by the click angry title, flying a flag won’t put your life at risk.
It’s the manner of which the flag is flown. Someone going up a rickety ladder to hang a flag is at risk of falling and at an extreme dying from injury. That’s all they are saying. Don’t be a numpty and do something outside of your ability.
In my entire life I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything good said about Birmingham City Council. It’s either failings in public transport/IT/housing/children’s services/almost every other department, bankruptcy, bin strikes and now banning UK flags.
The epitome home of bad public service management.
I drove down this road eariler today, I was so confused. It was like the jubilee was on or somthing
‘Put lives at risk’ – which pencil-pushing moron came up with that? It beggars belief
It’s not your lamppost, why would you be allowed to put a flag on it?
Everybody who lives there has to look at it, and I would hazard a guess that the majority of people would prefer not to have flags draped from every lampost on the street. Especially in six months when they look tatty.
Why do people feel they have the right to do whatever they like in a public space?
*Letting the council just… take your flegs down*
The English don’t quite seem to understand how flegs work yet. Flegs aren’t just little rectangular pieces of cloth – they’re a worldview. A state of mind. Flegs are love. Flegs are life.