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Flag waving

TheCatWoman

It seems that the English flag is being used again as a symbol of nationalism, being paraded around the streets by those wanting rid of asylum seekers and placed in gardens.

Do you feel comfortable with it? I don't, for me it's tainted by Neo Nazi's and other fascists, or for football.

In Britain we've never had a habit of flag use and worship like some other countries, mostly seen in America and I wouldn't like us to acquire the habit. 

Am I the only one to find it ironic that St George was a Turk? He supplanted St Edmund as Englands national saint on a whim of Richard the Lionheart, we have lots of native saints to choose from, St Alban, St Edward, St Thomas A'Becket, St Hilda, and so many more often more obscure ones like St Petroc or St Willibrord.

I also feel uncomfortable that as a non Christian the flag is a blatently Christian religious symbol, at least in Wales we have Ye Ddraig Goch, The Red Dragon, nice and mythological and non religious.

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  • Yes the flag is being abused and used as a symbol of far right propaganda. I only used to see these flags when football was on. Now I see them all the time.

    I was coming home from work on Monday and encountered an irate man shouting and swearing at people while waving a giant Union Jack. He was probably drunk or on drugs. There was no protest rallys that day.

    He made me feel scared to had to go into a shop until he passed. I don’t like how the flag is being abused like this.

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  • Yes the flag is being abused and used as a symbol of far right propaganda. I only used to see these flags when football was on. Now I see them all the time.

    I was coming home from work on Monday and encountered an irate man shouting and swearing at people while waving a giant Union Jack. He was probably drunk or on drugs. There was no protest rallys that day.

    He made me feel scared to had to go into a shop until he passed. I don’t like how the flag is being abused like this.

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  • in reply to GreyCuddlyWolf

    I think I might have seen some of the people putting up flags the other night, it was about 1:30am and I was closing my curtains when I saw a white box van pulling quietly away from a lamp post with a flag on it. 

    The flags are so high you'd need to stand on something like a box van to reach high enough to put them up. If people are going round in the middle of the night putting them up, then it suggests a fairly high level of organisation, more tha just a couple of numpties.