There must be dozens of the damn things cable tied up lamp posts lining a few streets around here (West Yorkshire). What the fuck happened?

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    Racism under the guise of ‘legitimate concerns’ with asylum seekers

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    It’s a ‘national pride’ statement. It’s been going on for over a week now.

    People have been putting them up in protest to the channel crossing debacle that’s going on at the moment.

    Imo it’s absolutely embarrassing, Xenophobic, and churlish.

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        And then putting half of them upside down.

        There are so many Union Jack’s hanging upside down round here…

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          Someone should convince 'em to hang the English flags upside down

          (they’re symmetrical)

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    I’ve read stories about right wing extremists using the English flag as a mean to show their support towards anti-immigration sentiments and to make immigrant people feel unwecomed in their neighborhoods but I am not really in the loop and I would wait for someone more knowledgeable than me to provide you with an explanation, especially because you identified the area pretty well. Could be that there’s a festivity going around I am not aware of and that there could be a not-so-dark explanation for all the flags

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    In an area I drove through last week, they’ve spray paintied a red cross on every white mini round about hump as well.

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      This would make me want to spray paint a cock and balls on it just so the council will hurry up and repaint it.