Fly The Union Flag

[naomi24]

I’m fed up with people knocking this great country of ours so in the spirit of patriotism I reckon it’s time to fly the flag on all public buildings, schools included, and anywhere else people would like to fly it. I’m searching for a flag pole and someone to install it in my garden as I type. What say you?

[Zacs-Master]

Me neither. I really do fear for some peoples’ sanity. I think the lockdown has affected some people more than they care to admit.

[diddlydo]

I have only read 2 pages of the posts but can't help wondering if this is an April Fool's Day tease by Naomi.

[Zacs-Master]

Unfortunately not, diddly, she really does believe what she’s written!

[Jackdaw33]

I am indifferent as to whether people fly flags or not. What I do object to is being told by people in this country not to fly the country's flag on the utterly spurious grounds that it is 'racist'.

[Zacs-Master]

Who’s said that, Jack?

[Jackdaw33]

The rebel pupils at the 'Academy' in question.

[Zacs-Master]

Which academy? Are you getting your posts mixed up, dear?

[ToraToraTora]

...shortly before they burned it.

[Jackdaw33]

You know damn well, ZM. The London school at the centre of the latest round of 'woke' nonsense. What I find interesting is that their slogan, 'There ain't no black in the Union Jack' was that of the National Front in the 60s/70s, with a totally different meaning.

[Zacs-Master]

You’re the first person to mention ‘the academy’ on this thread, Jack, so what you mea by ‘in question’ I’ve no idea.

[Jackdaw33]

If you can't make the connection between this thread and the one below, then I can't help further.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1746241.html

[Zacs-Master]

It’s not ‘in question’ if it isn’t mentioned specifically, Jack. Obtuse references (which I suggested was the case very early on) have never been qualified by the OP.

[jim360]

// What I do object to is being told by people in this country not to fly the country's flag on the utterly spurious grounds that it is 'racist'. //

Sadly, the Union Jack was co-opted by racists in the past. I don't see that it is racist in itself, because as far as I'm concerned racism is a thing that only people are capable of, rather than objects. Sometimes a particular object or symbol has an unambiguously racist history, but even then it's the history of how humans used it, and not the symbol, that matters.

I have no intention, anyway, of discouraging patriotism. What would worry me is if it became compulsory -- which, in any case, is to destroy the meaning. How people express their patriotism, and for that matter even whether people are patriotic, is and should remain a matter of choice.

[anneasquith]

Union Jack pants/ boxers available on Amazon .

[tonyav]

I know, anne ( I have some ) ;-)

[anneasquith]

I knew you would toneeeee :-)

[Ken4155]

^
And, for the ladies, Geri Halliwell's Union Jack dress @ £15.95. The real one would have set you back over £41K :-)

[tonyav]

Well anne, you have to fly the flag in all situations you know.

[anneasquith]

:-) .

[jim360]

Just a shame it's at half-mast, eh, tony? :P