THOSE FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS!

I think it was last time, maybe the one before that it really felt like people were exhausted with all of the pre-hype. All that 'For You Fritz Ze War Is Over/England Expects' shit from the late 90s tabloids seems like 1,000 years ago. Thank Christ.

I can remember getting the bus home from work and passing a completely trashed Trafalgar Square after the Euro 96 fail and feeling pleased both about the result/and not needing ceefax to check it when I got home!

In fact after that Euro '96 fail, even out in Plumstead, rampaging thugs were indiscriminately smashing the windscreens of cars on Conway Rd. The tabloid hyperbole must have been strong drugs in them days.

I can remember getting the bus home from work and passing a completely trashed Trafalgar Square after the Euro 96 fail and feeling pleased both about the result/and not needing ceefax to check it when I got home!

astoria to asturias

via assholes

Kirby estate, Bermondsey. Great video from Facebook👏🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #Millwall pic.twitter.com/W3wf3LuE59

— Cal (@porterfield10) June 14, 2018

Props to the Colombian.

However, living in a place arguably more famous for FEFs than any other town in England, there s barely anything up. I think I’ve seen two this morning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-44480646

A self-professed "mad football fan" has draped a huge flag across the front of his house to cheer on England in the World Cup.

John Jupp, from Blyton, Lincolnshire, said the flag measures 1,250 sq ft (116 sq m) in size and completely covers the front of his house.

nothing says Come On Engerland like an oversized EDL wanksock

which he bought from China for £380

mad football fans don't gaf about England

In fact after that Euro '96 fail, even out in Plumstead, rampaging thugs were indiscriminately smashing the windscreens of cars on Conway Rd. The tabloid hyperbole must have been strong drugs in them days.

― calzino, Sunday, 10 June 2018 14:21 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wee bit late here but I was in Plumstead that night! We had a bit of a "lads,lads" moment between my Scottish mates and some locals but all friendly in the end. I had no idea about the trouble until the next day.

(we were in the Volunteer on the High Street)

In the same area/same year I once got frogmarched out of a neo-nazi type pub and told not to come back, somewhere on that main road that leads to Belmarsh nick appropriately enough, I think. I look a bit Israeli in the daytime and could almost pass for Asian at night and these fuckers didn't like the look at all! I only wanted a couple of bottles of lager to take out, the fucking wankers.

I just went on google maps to find where I used to live in Woolwich in the 90's and I can barely recognise much, probably somewhere near the new Tesco extra, so probably not there anymore. I'm feeling so old rn, I'm thinking maybe it's just my mind that has been gentrified!

Saw my first FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS proudly fluttering on a car today. Four of them.

Saw a council maisonette on Malden Road in Chalk Farm with a house plaque ‘Hogwarts’, England flags bunting and about six of the actual flags.

Saw my first FUCKING ENGLAND FLAGS proudly fluttering on a car today. Four of them.

There's a few in the car park by my flats. Saw a car last week with 4 flags on the roof and 2 England streamers along the bonnet; it was driving with its right wheels well over the centre line, but hey, you can't say you weren't warned about the driver, amirite

Not many flags on buildings here in Oxford (fewer than usual during a World Cup) but saw quite a few on my Father's Day trip through the sticks. Dunno about post-2010 being a fallow time for flags though - they were everywhere here in 2016, starting with Union Flags everywhere in spring for the Queen's 90th and then joined by England flags for the Euros. Great time for a poorly-specified referendum on a jingofiable topic

In 2016 someone put a massive Union Flag and then a massive England flag up on the railings at the front of our blocks of flats, which I was not v pleased about; went to the flats' AGM wondering whether I dared ask if they should be allowed (we have plenty of non-English people living here and there are rules about not putting anything on the outside of the buildings without permission and no hanging laundry outside), but first someone from another block said that they'd heard someone complain about them and everyone else present tutted and agreed that the naysayer was a terrible curmudgeon and the flags "looked nice", so I kept my snobby middle-class mouth shut.

A few days later the flag-hangers wrote "EDL" and "England for the English" plus "fuck <rude name for local football rivals>" in big letters across them and after that they got taken down before I even had to say anything. Felt kind of vindicated but not enjoyably so

That aligns with a lot of the tension i have seen on Twitter recently over support of England. There's a general sense - for footballing and non-footballing reasons - this is a more likeable England team than in recent years and the relative lack of hype, FEFs and jingoism in the lead-up to the World Cup has made people who'd probably generally shy away from overt expressions of support less reticent to do so but there's a lot of people who still see the normalisation of vocal patriotism, flag-waving, etc, as dangerous, partly because of the way it can embolden racists.

Losing 2-1 after 91 minutes to Belgium should calm these anxieties.

I reckon they'll beat the Belgian 2nd XI7YRYTFUTYUTFHGHBBGBJJNI RUBBISHEDRURUEU

... wow, this what happens when you put your phone in your pocket when your halfway through composing a post! Interestingly, my phone still managed to come up with RUBBISHED and EU.

... and post it!

Pocket-dial ANGRY!

grim reapah XI7YRYTFUTYUTFHGHBBGBJJNI RUBBISHEDRURUEU

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/27/st-georges-flag-fly-10-downing-street-remaining-england-world/

I leave the country for a year and it goes fucking mental. What’s going on?

🇬🇧Latest flag news...

The UK government has asked for the union jack to be flown on all UK government buildings every day of the year from now on.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) March 24, 2021

Think Scottish succession and the subsequent need to change 20 billion union flags could well bankrupt the future rumpUK.

"succession" obvs a cunning portmanteau of success and secession.

This is the Conservative Party Manifesto for the 2019 Election.

64 pages, How many Union Jacks 🇬🇧, @jamesowild?

Zero. https://t.co/7JlREXFGRx https://t.co/CGDCt9LniM

— Dr Adam Rutherford (@AdamRutherford) March 22, 2021

(prompted by random mp complaining about lack of union flags in bbc report, see thread)

What’s going on?

attempt to distract from worst Covid death rates in the world and self-inflicted economic meltdown via Brexit by appealing to Tory voters' core delusional persecution complex

The govt has also cut red tape to allow dual flagging – two flags on one pole.

i remember the 70s and the national front marches and all the union flags on display there. the stink hasn't gone away.

I can remember seeing national front skinheads, led by some drummers and marching along The Headrow in Leeds, stinking the place up with their union jack t-shirts on St George's day in the late 80's as well.

Er, hello, Ibrox Park every second Saturday, pre-pandemic?

there is a bit of an inverse of flag-fuckery in the uk where just simply the existence of the butcher's apron is seen as vile and inherently racist. my stance is that nation states have to have a flag. it is normal for them to be flying on certain buildings. obviously flag-fuckery is loathsome.

i mean i have a bit of a cheek saying this because i have always had a distaste for union jack based on being congenitally a bit of a scot nat and hating the queen and also because i have found as i have gotten older that the saltire really bothers me also. i was back in glasgow for a visit in 2019 and was near george square during an "all under one banner" rally (for those not in the know these are big tent pro-independence rallies not ran or promoted by the SNP and which don't exclude any groups including fascists - of which there are not many in number in the scottish nationalist movement but it's the principle of the thing) and something about that sea of saltires really irked me.

They want to spend a lot of tax revenue on flags so that people feel like they have to support the Union now I mean the money's been spent lads so.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/union-flag-to-be-flown-on-uk-government-buildings-every-day

but none of those FUCKING EU FLAGS

"Planning regulations in England that were introduced in 2007 to allow the EU flag to be flown on public buildings without acquiring planning permission will also be removed following the UK’s departure from the European Union."

not so big a thing this time around here, by the look

to compensate, here's
https://www.gbnews.uk/

Best of luck to the England team from the great people of West Bromwich East 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿#ENG pic.twitter.com/eef6LPnAE1

— Nicola Richards MP (@Nicola4WBE) June 13, 2021

Three pints more like

Three points!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 pic.twitter.com/ryIo2zyvHH

— Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) June 13, 2021

How amazing does Regent Street look?

All streets should be looking like this, ALL the time 😍 pic.twitter.com/ZuOLkMkOJ8

— Stephen James (@StephenJamesGBR) May 22, 2022

Any kind of patriotic display is my idea of hell.

last time i saw that many of those flags was a national front march

there is a family run dairy farm down the road from me that have a flagpole by the farmhouse and they rotate their flags. Sometimes they have a union jack that has some kind of sinister looking masonic symbol on it and they other odd looking ones that I couldn't i.d. At the moment they have St Georgie cross and a Ukrainian flag under it. Sometimes the old boy stops + chats + offers me an apple from their orchard while driving past on his dinky little tractor and trailer. I daren't ask him what the symbol on the union flag is as I'm already fearful he may be grooming me for some kind of human sacrifice ritual.

there's a new flagpole in the park, has been there about 6 months and i've never seen a flag on it.

Just back from being in Scotland for a week, you see a lot of flags up there - Scottish flags, of course.

not so much

Not sure I've seen any tbh.

Nope

All we needed was an Arab world cup in winter. Yay!