Northamptonshire Rights Equality Council says ‘it is serious’ about its legal challenge asking the North unitary council to remove national flags from lampposts.
I am so pleased to read about this. Living in the Kettering area, I too have made contact voicing my concerns about all this flag flying. I am definitely no royalist but I have pointed out to NNC that for the coronation, there were no flags flying, so I can only assume that the flags flapping about now are linked to Something Else…something Not Nice. Part of me has hoped that in ignoring them, the flags will lose impact and will eventually look so raggedy that they will be taken down. But still they flap about. I am so relieved that moves are being made to take this on.
I do not see flying a flag is being patriotic in your own country. My spouse served in the Royal Navy from 1953 till 1965. He see nothing patriotic about flags flying from lamppost helping the Community. Moreover, he has seen two Union flags flying upside-down..do they know what this mean?...It is a distress signal at sea. What is patriotic is to defend your country when it needs it.
The issue is that if this is allowed then anyone can put anything on lampposts and object to their removal. Also should someone have an accident while putting up flags who is to blame? If the council allow them to be put up then in the event of an accident, say due to an electrical fault causing the metalwork to be live then they could be accused of causing it.
All that wasted money spent on bits of flappy fabric. It's the equivalent of jangling shiny things in front of the hard of thinking. Keep their focus on hating anyone 'not like us', and they'll be nicely distracted from oligarchal interference in our politics. Stirring up division in long-standing, diverse communities is nothing short of a hate crime. I wonder how many of these morons head out for curry on a Friday night, after quaffing foreign beer, driving about in foreign cars and watching foreign films? As well as going on foreign holidays in order to get a nice tan? The hypocrisy is mind-blowing
I am so pleased to read about this. Living in the Kettering area, I too have made contact voicing my concerns about all this flag flying. I am definitely no royalist but I have pointed out to NNC that for the coronation, there were no flags flying, so I can only assume that the flags flapping about now are linked to Something Else…something Not Nice. Part of me has hoped that in ignoring them, the flags will lose impact and will eventually look so raggedy that they will be taken down. But still they flap about. I am so relieved that moves are being made to take this on.
I do not see flying a flag is being patriotic in your own country. My spouse served in the Royal Navy from 1953 till 1965. He see nothing patriotic about flags flying from lamppost helping the Community. Moreover, he has seen two Union flags flying upside-down..do they know what this mean?...It is a distress signal at sea. What is patriotic is to defend your country when it needs it.
The issue is that if this is allowed then anyone can put anything on lampposts and object to their removal. Also should someone have an accident while putting up flags who is to blame? If the council allow them to be put up then in the event of an accident, say due to an electrical fault causing the metalwork to be live then they could be accused of causing it.
All that wasted money spent on bits of flappy fabric. It's the equivalent of jangling shiny things in front of the hard of thinking. Keep their focus on hating anyone 'not like us', and they'll be nicely distracted from oligarchal interference in our politics. Stirring up division in long-standing, diverse communities is nothing short of a hate crime. I wonder how many of these morons head out for curry on a Friday night, after quaffing foreign beer, driving about in foreign cars and watching foreign films? As well as going on foreign holidays in order to get a nice tan? The hypocrisy is mind-blowing
Very tacky relics and ironically a n insult to the nation!
Is WNC taking down the flags?
Is this really a good use of charitable funds?
Is this a good use of public money should the council have to defend the action?