Reform are spending £75,000 putting up Union flags in Nottingham

Evidence in the post just above yours, Oreo.

Where does all this ‘knifed’ stuff come from? What evidence is there for it? Isn’t it more a of a hatred of Reform than anything else, or are there stabbed patients lying in Durham hospitals, victims of the Reform Council? Has anyone been stabbed ?

Two serious incidents in the news lately of knifing and it wasn't committed by people putting flags up

Oreo

Wyllow3

dont mention flags to me atm 😡

I arrived to see family in Co Durham. Everywhere, up high on lamp posts (out of reach) are massed England flags. Put up by men using long ladders.

Reform Party, DiL saw them doing it. I said, why aren't they getting taken down by opposition? she said, you'd get knifed.

Nice, I thought, terrific. Democracy at its very best.

Absolutely clear example of hi jacking the English flag for one political side. It's no good saying "no far right taking it over"

they are.

What opposition?
Does it bother the majority of people in Durham, which is in England, that the English flag is flying?

It certainly bothers most of the people I talk to. No-one wants to be knifed, though. Or a brick through their window, or their car scratched etc.

There have been plenty of complaints to the local council. A very few flags in very dodgy positions have been removed.

So English flags are now offensive MaizieD dear oh dear.

Havent rth

Sounds like an awful thing to do.

Casdon

Galaxy

Reform took county durham via the ballot box not with political violence. I know this is hard for some people to accept, but more people voted for them.

Yes, but that doesn’t mean everybody voted for Reform, so why try to invalidate somebody else’s comment?

Galaxy is just pointing out a simple fact.Not always appreciated I know.

Wyllow3

dont mention flags to me atm 😡

I arrived to see family in Co Durham. Everywhere, up high on lamp posts (out of reach) are massed England flags. Put up by men using long ladders.

Reform Party, DiL saw them doing it. I said, why aren't they getting taken down by opposition? she said, you'd get knifed.

Nice, I thought, terrific. Democracy at its very best.

Absolutely clear example of hi jacking the English flag for one political side. It's no good saying "no far right taking it over"

they are.

What opposition?
Does it bother the majority of people in Durham, which is in England, that the English flag is flying?

Galaxy

Reform took county durham via the ballot box not with political violence. I know this is hard for some people to accept, but more people voted for them.

Yes, but that doesn’t mean everybody voted for Reform, so why try to invalidate somebody else’s comment?

^ Reform Party, DiL saw them doing it. I said, why aren't they getting taken down by opposition? she said, you'd get knifed.^

Wyllow’s DiL is absolutely correct in what she says. No-one with any sense messes with the folk who put these flags up. They are not nice people.

Casdon

How many people live in County Durham? Surely both these accounts can be equally valid?

I must live in flag central, Co. Durham. Flags lined a practically continuous stretch of about 3 or 4 miles of road connecting 3 settlements. They are there in my face, so to speak, every single time I leave the road I live in to go anywhere.

Inevitably, some very windy weather and, I suspect, some objectors to the patriotic pantomime, have removed some, but enough remain to be offensive.

Reform took county durham via the ballot box not with political violence. I know this is hard for some people to accept, but more people voted for them.

Well, of course. Driving through to my family, I passed quiet areas but also areas with flags every 80 yards, staying in one.
DiL and DS witnessed both too of course.

How many people live in County Durham? Surely both these accounts can be equally valid?

I live in county durham. I have never heard anything about what you are describing. We have endless Facebook discussions on how terrible the flags are from earnest centrists on the whole, they strangely enough feel safe to do that.
There are flags here on lampposts but if you drive around they are mostly in the deprived areas in people's houses.
If you mean will these deprived areas vote reform, absolutely, and I don't blame them.
The worse political violence i have seen in county durham was the harassment of our local mp by pro palestine supporters ( it was very scary and very much not the far right)

dont mention flags to me atm 😡

I arrived to see family in Co Durham. Everywhere, up high on lamp posts (out of reach) are massed England flags. Put up by men using long ladders.

Reform Party, DiL saw them doing it. I said, why aren't they getting taken down by opposition? she said, you'd get knifed.

Nice, I thought, terrific. Democracy at its very best.

Absolutely clear example of hi jacking the English flag for one political side. It's no good saying "no far right taking it over"

they are.

Ludicrous waste of money.

Oh I love that. "FLAGS IS IT?"
Thanks Caddon!

Oh yes, that was the one!

Allira

Maremia

Saw a great post on Facebook, where one community has 'solved the problem' by putting up jolly strings of bunting, and on the bunting are flag colours of all sorts.
Good for them.

They may have got the idea from Gransnet!
I'm sure that was posted on another thread.

It was typical Welsh humour, taking the mickey.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/classic-welsh-response-flags-appears-32464819

BlueBelle

It’s a nightmare here, we have a man on a mission, the next town to us is a reform foothold and don’t we suffer. The divisive flags of hate are being bought out of Reforms coffers
(I am told) and flying everywhere In the roads where there are few flying they have been positioned outside Asian owned shops Chinese and Indian restaurants I am so ashamed of my country and flag at the moment and very very sad

How do.you know the flags weren't put there by the shop.owners themselves? 4th or 5th generation and as proud to be British anyone else around?

Maremia

Saw a great post on Facebook, where one community has 'solved the problem' by putting up jolly strings of bunting, and on the bunting are flag colours of all sorts.
Good for them.

They may have got the idea from Gransnet!
I'm sure that was posted on another thread.

Saw a great post on Facebook, where one community has 'solved the problem' by putting up jolly strings of bunting, and on the bunting are flag colours of all sorts.
Good for them.

kjmpde

I always wonder why people need a flag to know they are living in the UK. Surely all of the litter and graffiti would tell them that !
I think the money could be better used in paying for graffiti removal and street cleaning

& blinking chewing gum 😩
I prefer huge tubs of flowers. Could alway put a small union badge on there ‘pride of Britain’ 🇬🇧 or small pride flag, or whatever.

growstuff

PS. I don't see the point of flying Pride flags either.

Or painting trains with pride stripes. Just spend money on getting them to run on time.