National flags have started lining our streets. They may say something more
Driving through the south west of Birmingham, it’s hard not to notice something about the lampposts.
For more than a mile, almost every one has a St George’s or union jack flag attached – thousands of them.
In one district, Weoley Castle, the BBC found two men carrying a ladder and shopping bags. A DIY trip this was not, because as we stop to talk to them one rests the ladder against a lamppost, the other pulls a union jack flag from the bag, and the next minute it’s flying high.
The BBC to my knowledge has never published a negative piece about the Palestinian flags that litter the UK. But that’s an upper class thing so it’s OK. Only proles would fly a Union Jack.
Hands up, who made this? pic.twitter.com/yG7b5uxPLl
— Donna Louise (@DonnaLouise1212) August 23, 2025
