Nice to see the Union Jack flying above the Town Hall.

Exactly. We were a country secure in our identity til the Tories and the Brexiteers convinced folk that we were being eradicated by the EU and immigrants.

 

Imagine the tension in northern Ireland too.

The UK flag is anything but a unifying force for many there.

 

Popularism & National Socialism are quite close.

Johnson isn't a Tory, he's a popularist. That's why he walked the election. The Covid regulations may never be dropped in terms of civil liberties, as he has no desire to preserve them. Worrying times. Think a poor man's Putin, who the Tories will jettison near the next election.

 

That’s your opinion though not everyone’s and I didn’t throw ‘crap’ around as you so eloquently put itI used a personal experience to illustrate that not every body shares your views.

 

You went to the go to argument for these people...people fought etc etc. Yes they did..and a lot of them fought for a country where the working man could have a fair deal. That's why they gave Churchill the boot after the war. They'd be turning in their graves to see Boris and his wannabe Trumpites take the piss out of what they stood for. So, in my opinion, it is crap as I ineloquently put it.

 

Bed time for me now. Up early for work tomorrow.

I'm taking our Union Jack to bed with me, I'll make love to it as is my duty. Let's not worry about the stunts our government has pulled, let's just tuck overselves in and hold our flag for all its worth. Flag flag flag. Patriotism. Send them back. Take our country back. Look at the flag.

Think that's it, isn't it?

 

**** me if that’s what it is you have been absolutely reeled in hook, line and sinker. Christ.

 

Why not add why you think they’ve done it then? Also, explain who’s doing the reeling and why?

 

Not at all.

I see through the Tories tactics.

They haven't distracted me from their shambolic governance anyway.

 

I don’t care why they’ve done it. They are a set of absolute ******* bells and I don’t need a flag to tell me that.

 

They haven’t distracted me either. Just because I don’t give a flying bolock about a pissing flag doesn’t mean I don’t despise the tories.

 

James Wild a Tory MP is wanting to hold the BBC director-general to account because he as not any union jacks on show on the BBC's end of year annual report, it's pathetic. It's a Simblisum of Nationalism first steps to dictatorship, it is flag wanking by the Torys knowing full well they have shaffed us with Brexit and are making it a test of our loyalty to the country well I and many more are more loyal to this country than these lying morons and are making out through the right-wing press if you don't buy into it you are a lesser person or a lesser Britain and remember we the Taxpayer are funding this flag wanking parade, wonder what their end game will be.

 

I never said you weren’t entitled to your opinion,I just pointed out that some folk look at things differently.

 

First point the finger and vilify people who don't wear a poppy.
Next point the finger and vilify people who don't show the flag.
What comes further down the road I wonder.

 

I couldn’t agree more, I think that both yours and Sunlighter’s points are valid here

 

Vilifying protestors.

 

Because it literally does. Politicians spend hundreds of thousands of pounds employing people whose sole job it is to tap into the public mood and find ways to exploit it for political gain. The Tories are playing the electorate like a fiddle.

 

Games without front ears
Bored without beers

 

This creeping nationalism is a sick and dangerous trend.