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What's with all the British and English flags everywhere all of a sudden? (feddit.uk)

submitted 23 hours ago by blackn1ght@feddit.uk to c/askuk@feddit.uk

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Been out today and immediately noticed our local mini roundabouts with red crosses painted on them and nearly every motorway bridge with either a union flag or a flag of St George fixed them. It's like they've just appeared overnight? What's suddenly brought this on?

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 10 points 22 hours ago

Reform-led councils doing their dog whistle thing.

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently, some flag shaggers on Facebook got mad that a council took down some flags so decided to just do this.

[–] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I heard, I can't remember where, that ALL flags of any kind where being removed in certain places due to then being a health and safety risk.

Of course you can guess who jumped on the story and twisted it for their own means.

EDIT: Also, today I drove along the M25, junction 2 to the M3 and almost every bridge had a flag for each direction.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

I did a similar journey. Half of the union flags were upside down.
Maybe that's why St George's is so popular? Nobody knows if you do it wrong.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It’s gammon mating season or something

[–] rah@hilariouschaos.com 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I do not approve of this comment, using the divisive label "gammon"! I laughed though :-)

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 23 hours ago

It's in protest about migrant hotels and just general racism but it's been painted as being patriotic due to the Lionesses victory against Spain earlier this month.

Lots of lampposts in towns have them, the white rectangles of zebra crossings have been painted with red crosses, same with some mini roundabouts.

Councils are leaving them up because there's been reports of the contractors they've hired to take them down have been assaulted.

Most UK news sources are covering it

[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 5 points 22 hours ago

People put flags up to protect are culcha. Cancel culture council took some down because of elf and safety gone mad. People put more flags up because they won't let the govimint tell us wot to do. Ignoring the fact that only a few got taken down because they were on lampposts and posed a risk to drivers.

And it's all driven by gammon constantly being triggered by brown people.

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

This has been on the news for the past week.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago

Has it? I've genuinely not seen it, maybe I just haven't checked the news recently.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Do you have a UKIP local council or something?

[Edit] or are you anywhere near this town that was in the news Guardian article recently? (There was a thread on here the other day)

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 22 hours ago

Nope, this is up North, and was on a long stretch of motorway through Lancashire and Cheshire. Although yeah we do have a Reform county council now unfortunately.