Time to take back the Flag?

[Number_25]

Look at it, in all its greatness...

Before the war this flag in all its greatness used to be in every single british garden, afterward I struggle to see it.

Is it time for us to take back what is rightfully ours and not the National Guards?

So please, buy a flag and pole. Stick it in your garden.. Enjoy it.

 

[SevertonT]

nahh thanks

 

[DENNIS STEVENS]

We're all european now, matey! Different flag

 

[bluebastardo]

What an unusual thread .
I think before the war , if we're talking about the world wars , then it might have been reasonable to be particularly patriotic , but we now live in a multi racial country , and I couldn't think of anything worse than seeing a flag pole in everybody's garden .
Is there really any justification in wanting to see Union Jacks everywhere , especially as were now part of the European Community ?
I can understand flying the flag if we're competing as a nation , or a particular occasion is taking place , but everyday patriotism in our own country is nothing short of neanderthal and intimidating .

We don't even have a bank holiday on St Georges day for Pete's sake .
If I was forced to fly one , it certainly wouldn't be the Union Jack though .

 

[McBain]

Plenty of Aussie flags in our gardens. Neanderthal and intimidting? Buddy people want to come to your country and raise their own flags?? We are a massively multi cultural nation, and thats why people come here. To get away from their own strife and join in on the Australian way. They love it. We love it.

We take abit of pride in our Nation, looks like big brother has lost your its judging by the last poster.

 

[Bundy]

Yes, i agree with Macca, if ppl want to come to your country to live, they have to live how you live, you cant go to another country and expect them to change to live how you want them to live, isn't that the reason you came to the country is because you like it? Not because you want to bring all your own troubles from your previous country and impose them on your new one.

 

[bluebastardo]

Yes, i agree with Macca, if ppl want to come to your country to live, they have to live how you live, you cant go to another country and expect them to change to live how you want them to live, isn't that the reason you came to the country is because you like it? Not because you want to bring all your own troubles from your previous country and impose them on your new one.

How has putting up a flag in your own garden suddenly became a ' live as we live ' debate ?
If people lived ' as we live ' then there wouldn't be any flags flown , as it's really not the English culture to do so and it's been illegal to do so untill recently . A flag is originally designed to identify ones self . Would we really communicate with each other by offering the first sentence as " hello , I'm English " when in our own country ? Why do we need to do it with flags ?

Regarding the law , it was actually illegal in this country to fly a national flag without a flag pole unless you had express permission from the council . This law may have changed recently , but I can't find evidence to suggest when it was if indeed it was .
Fans at football matches were actually breaking the law because the flags were flown without an errect pole .
Even on government buildings , there were only certain days that flags were flown , but apparantly Gordon Brown flies one outside Downing street every day in an absurd attempt to promote Britishness which brings me back to my previous point about bank holidays . All a bit hypocritcal if you ask me .

Everyones welcome to their opinion , but mine is I wouldn't like it at all .

 

[Whitebootman]

So I need planning permission for 3 flagpoles. The Union Flag, the Cross of St. George, and that Eurothingy. All well and good but where do I hang the laundry?

I'll just stick to the cross of St. George from an upstairs window if I choose to fly a flag. Anyone else can fly what they want as far as I'm concerened. A lot of people down here would fly the flag of the benefits office if they could, (that would be a length of red tape).


Afterthought. Please, if you are going to raise the Union Flag make sure it's the right way up.

 

[Bundy]

england sounds like a mess of a place.

 

[Rugby Toffee]

england sounds like a mess of a place.

It is matey......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

It's a flag, a piece of cloth. If you're so insecure in your nationality that you can't feel 'British' (whatever feeling British is) without displaying a flag then I'd say deeper issues are at play.

 

[AdamTheGreatOneB]

There's an old man who lives a few doors down from me who has a British flag flying in his back garden and, I'm told, he's had it there for many years. I guess he's just proud to be British. Nobody has ever had a problem with it that I'm aware of.

I always hang the English flag during the World Cup/European Championships from my window too [when we qualify anyway!]

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

german bloke around the corner has flags when football is on, he has them draped out of each window and 1 huge m.f., place looks like dresden town hall. all just for some banter though.

& try stopping my daughter from hoisting the n.z. flag when the all blacks win, hear loads of dumb arses saying "ooh, i didnt know that they were australian"

 

[McBain]

No-ones saying you should fly the flag. Just wondering why you'd call someone a 'neanderthal' for being patriotic.

Theres no other deeper metaphor than displaying your countries colours. You stick together, you support your national teams and you salute your troops. You make your nation stronger at the grass roots level. If that means saying 'Gday' to old mate flying the flag across the street and not looking down on him as some kind of barbaric relic, thats what you do.

You've got a pretty cool flag, as flags go. Id be proud of it, and we are in away, its on ours too.

I guess we enjoy our little piece of turf and like to share it with anyone who decides they want to be Aussies too.

 

[daza_1973]

Look at it, in all its greatness...

Before the war this flag in all its greatness used to be in every single british garden, afterward I struggle to see it.

Is it time for us to take back what is rightfully ours and not the National Guards?

So please, buy a flag and pole. Stick it in your garden.. Enjoy it.

Unfotunately since the recent BNP victories in the euro elections, our government and the media look on the union flag/jack as a icon of evil representing all things bad about nationalistic pride.
And after the the announcement that the new optional (lol) I.D cards will not have the flag adorning them - don't be suprised if it gets banned altogether - so if your planning on flying one make the most of it