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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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  • in reply to Trev

    Probably made in China, the ones here are made of some nasty synthetic that won't degrade properly and will add more plastic pollution to the environment, you can see the creases in many of them so they've obviously just come out of a packet.

  • in reply to Damojo

    I'm sure if the people who put up those flags got their way they would be the first to complain when they couldn't see a doctor, get hospital treatment, get care for a relative, buy food grown in the UK or access any other facilities provided by industries who have to employ a large proportion of non-UK nationals and still have vacancies they cannot fill.

    I bet the flags aren't even made in the UK.

  • in reply to Damojo

    Illegaly parked cars are a nightmare, we have two free carparks across the road from the post office and chippy, theres a zebra crossing and zig zag lines and still they park on the crossing or on the lines, often because their bags of chips are to heavy to carry across the road.