Will the EU symbol rears it's ugly head once again?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-EU-flags-strips.html

Yet another example of the strangle hold the EU is getting over us.

Wasn't there once another symbol that was flying all over Europe, I refer of course to the dreaded swastika?

[bookbinder]

Surely the Brussels buffoons can find somethig more important to think about?
Couldn't they?
Please?

[Gromit]

It is a draft motion. It hasn't even been discussed yet, nevermind consulted on. It won't happen.

It is a non story just an excuse for EU bashing - Do you really need an excuse?

[rov1100]

The trouble with belonging to the EU is that British politicians can't decide to be fully committed or to be out of the EU altogether. This conflict pulls us in separate directions.

If we were fully committed we could save £bns by having the EU tackle most of our expenditure including defence, crime, and many other areas. Currently we contribute to many areas on a national level and also at the EU level.

Maybe our policians are worried they could be out of a job is
if many functions are done solely by the EU.

[R1Geezer]

"Wasn't there once another symbol that was flying all over Europe, I refer of course to the dreaded swastika? "

Yes AOG and the Nazis did less damage!

[jackthehat]

I invoke Godwin's Law......and claim my prize!

[R1Geezer]

doesn't count jack, Nazis where mentioned (indirectly) in the question!

[Davethedog]

Dreaded? There are some that would have it fly today. Some post on AB - Mentioning no names of course.

JTH - Given the OP - Thats cheating :-D

[jackthehat]

I very nearly commented that it would be some sort of record......as, strictly speaking, the OP introduced the Nazis.........

Am I not allowed to have it, then ? Awwww.......:o(

Mornington Cresecent!!!

[ichkeria]

"Surely the Brussels buffoons can find somethig more important to think about?
Couldn't they? "

A bit unkind to call the Daily Mail "Brussels buffoons"
:-)

[Gromit]

// the Nazis did less damage! [ than the EU ] //

That's a pretty dumb thing to say.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

I presume all this started by a draft motion

http://www.northampto...g_euro_flag_1_2839758

http://www.dailymail....k-flying-EU-flag.html

One doesn't have to 'find' an excuse for EU bashing, they constantly openly provide us with excuses themselves.

[anotheoldgit]

I may agree with you on your first point, but he didn't and it wasn't.

Regarding your second point,

/// Can you still not ascertain what is news & what is propaganda.///

I certainly can, it would appear that it is you who has the problem.

A university and some public buildings fined for not flying the EU flag, most certainly qualifies to be classed as news.

Or is it only news that fits in with your own agenda that is allowed to be called news?

[ichkeria]

Does anyone know the background to the University of Northampton story? It seems rather bizarre and ridiculous on the face of it, but why that university in particular? And in what context?
While I am not a fan of imposing symbols on people, be they union jacks, EU flags or anything else, particularly coming as I do from NI, I am not sure I can get all that worked up about the EU flag really. Interestingly, the president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, always appears on TV standing in front of an EU flag as a symbol of his country's people's overwhelming desire to join and distance itself from its unpleasant neighbour to the north. I know the EU raises strong feelings in people, but those people comparing it to the Nazi empire might want to reflect upon that ...

[jackthehat]

The Northampton story has already been dealt with on AnswerBank.

There was a failure to show a representation of the European Flag on boarding erected outside the St. George Avenue campus illustrating that money for a building project had been secured from ERDF.......and this was a breach of the T&C of receiving the funding.....there was NO obligation to fly a flag.

[jno]

"the Nazis did less damage!"

Is that Godwin's Law in reverse - bringing in the Nazis, but only to claim they weren't so bad?

[anotheoldgit]

/// there was NO obligation to fly a flag.///

Neither was there any mention of actually 'flying' the flag'.

What was mentioned was the fact that they failed to 'display' the EU flag, this meaning it's image.

'Flying the flag' should not be taken literally, one can print the EU flag on paper or paint it on a board for example, you don't have to actually fly it.

[jackthehat]

That's what I said........they had an obligation to display a 'representation' of the EU flag.......they didn't and were fined.

Quite rightly, too.

[ichkeria]

Thanks jackthehat. I thought it might be something like that. Not a very honest piece of reporting by the Daily Mail really.
It did seem odd that only one university was involved.

[anotheoldgit]

/// It did seem odd that only one university was involved. ///

Not really it might have been the only university that dared to rebel against the dictatorial EU.