Reform to Ban Councils From Flying ‘Woke’ Flags
Reform has announced a ban on ‘woke’ flags being flown by councils under its control, with party Chairman Zia Yusuf saying the 10 councils it won last week will only be allowed to fly the Union Flag and the St George’s Cross. The Telegraph has more.
Zia Yusuf announced on Monday that “no other flags” would be allowed to be displayed in the local authorities under the party’s control.
He said that this policy would include “flag-poles, balconies, reception desks or council-chamber walls”.
Reform now controls 10 councils in England, including Kent, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire after sweeping gains in the local elections last week.
But the policy has already come under fire from Labour, which has said that it would mean a ban on the display of Ukrainian flags from public buildings.
The announcement comes as Britain begins celebrations of the 80th anniversary of VE Day.
Mr Yusuf wrote on X on Monday: “Reform controlled English councils will move at speed to resolve that the *only* flags permitted to be flown on or in its buildings will be the Union Jack and the St George’s flag.
“No other flags will be permitted to be flown on its flag-poles, balconies, reception desks or council-chamber walls.”
Under the policy, flags flown by councils for specific days in the year, such as the Pride flag, the Pan African flag or the Armed Forces flag, would not be allowed.
The Prime Minister has repeatedly sought to claim Labour is the party of patriotism as part of his strategy to take on Reform.
He became the first Prime Minister to host a St George’s Day reception in No 10 last month, and has attacked Nigel Farage for his “fawning over Putin”.
Labour will ramp up its attacks on Mr Farage over his previous supportive comments of the Russian President from over a decade ago in which he said he admired Vladimir Putin.
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Indeed.
What is the justification for flying a flag that advertises somebody’s sexual preferences?
It doesn’t advertise mine. There is no colour in the rainbow flag for ‘heterosexual’.
Yeah, and this raises the question: why do the alphabet people have this desperate need for continuous validation?
I mean, pride…? What on earth are they proud of? It’s not an achievement. And why do they demand that we fly their flag and dedicate an entire month to “celebrating” their sexual preferences?
That’s because that’s not an approved sexual orientation but a manifestation of the oppressive patriarchy all good people ought to strive to overcome. Even with all technical means to avoid that, it might still end up condemning an innocent woman to become a mother and who could possibly want something as completely depraved as that?
You mean advertises a mental illness.
A perversion.
A group that mutilates and sexualises children.
NO PRIDE
Soliciting encounters with like-minded people would be my guess. But that’s something rather different from flying it on a public flagpole. In the latter case, I think it’s supposed to communicate that there are certain people the council etc cares about more that it cares about other people and that YOU, common man or woman in the street, are certainly not among them (unless willing to have sex with them, that is).
At best, this is wholly inappropriate trolling of the majority of the population. At worst, its outright disgusting: If our authorities have nothing better to do with their time than to advertise their explicit approval of certain sexual practices, we should get rid of them on the grounds that they’re demonstrably useless.
If we ever come up with another flag it will be a symbol of erasure.
I will put boys in the square in charge of making things. If they fail to make then they don’t get fed.
State organisations should only fly state non political flags, anyway. Anything else is divisive. So union flag, kingdom flag, county flag, city flag, organisation flag. Nothing else.
I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment, though how they’re going to enforce it is a different matter.
”Labour is the party of patriotism…”??! WTAF did I just read? While they bang up patriots for typing words and sharing their inconvenient but honest opinions? For having police arrest people for speaking in public or carrying the St George flag? While they cover for Muslim rapists, pander to Islam and embrace cultural Marxism? ”Don’t piss on my back and tell me it’s raining” springs to mind. What ‘Jim Chimirie’ said; ”This is the bitter truth many are too afraid to say aloud, but the sentiment is rapidly spreading – and with good reason. Western Europe’s political class has long since abandoned the idea of stewardship. Instead, they’ve chosen mass demographic engineering as a form of moral posturing and cheap labour acquisition, all while dressing it up as “diversity” and “inclusion.” The result? The native populations are ignored, smeared, and increasingly displaced – culturally, politically, and even physically. The elite’s message is clear: you will be replaced, and if you object, you’re a “bigot”, a “fascist”, or a threat to democracy. They redefine democracy to mean “anything that serves the globalist agenda.” Anything else is “extremism.” It’s gaslighting on a civilisational scale. And when peaceful, electoral options are systematically denied… Read more »
The political class should heed the words of von Klausewitz – war is the pursuit of politics by other means. When we are denied a choice with voting and talk gets us nowhere it is time for action.
v. Clausewitz, actually.
Talking of flags, the occasional ceremonial incineration of dissolute flags wouldn’t come amiss.
“But the policy has already come under fire from Labour, which has said that it would mean a ban on the display of Ukrainian flags from public buildings.”
Yes, yes and yes. We should not be flying any flag other than our own. Incidentally, is there any development of the ‘100 year accord with Ukraine’ in which we give them money for the next century and tie our futures together.? I wonder when that became a good idea…
Well yes absolutely what is the point of flying the Ukraine flag? We should perhaps fly the flag of persecuted Christians in Africa, the middle east and China?
Simple – virtue signalling just the same as flying the perverts rainbow flag.
That would be racist and Islamophobic.
80th anniversary of our making ourselves bankrupt, sacrificing tens of thousands of our citizens, widespread destruction of our infrastructure because of our “accord” with Poland.
We went to war with Germany led by the brutal dictator of an evil regime when he invaded Poland supposedly because he was a threat to Europe… something, even though Germany was moving East, not West.
But we became best buddies and allies of Russia led by the brutal dictator of an evil regime who invaded Poland a few days after Hitler, and who was moving West.
We then supported that brutal dictator and his brutal regime with gold and armaments so it could own Poland and a chunk of Europe from 1945 onward and be a threat to West Europe for the next 45 years.
What’s wrong with this picture?
I would have thought that county or town flags should be allowed.
He included county. The councils Reform control are not (yet) town councils so why would a county fly their flag?
Common sense
RIP: 2019
God rest its soul
Good. There is no reason for flying this flag.
“But the policy has already come under fire from Labour, which has said that it would mean a ban on the display of Ukrainian flags from public buildings.”
Correct.
Farage didn’t say that he admired Putin but that he admired Putin as a technical operator, ie, his ability to get things moving in the direction he wants them to move. It’s perfectly possible to admire a certain mechanism because of intricacy of its moverment without approving of its ultimate goal. Eg, be interested in the mechanics of a machine gun lock without desiring to kill loads of people.
“But the policy has already come under fire from Labour, which has said that it would mean a ban on the display of Ukrainian flags from public buildings”
Quite right too we’re in England not Ukraine!
No County or City flags? Yusuf speaks in haste.
‘Labour will ramp up its attacks on Mr Farage over his previous supportive comments of the Russian President from over a decade ago in which he said he admired Vladimir Putin.’
President Putin is the greatest statesman in the world today. Russia is to be envied. If anyone just stirs from their fireside chair and does a little searching, they will find out that Russophobia is the same western-based propaganda as covid and climate change.
There is no reason to allow “flags” that represent interest groups to be mounted in public institutional venues. In schools, the pride flag is popular but if it can be flown, why not the Gadsden flag? The result would be chaos.
Not over keen on banning things. It just makes each side as bad as the other. Sorry, but freedom of speech and expression are paramount. ‘I may disagree with every word you say but I will defend with my life your right to say it.’ Voltaire. Not a good move Garage and co!
What is being banned is replacing our national flags because they are racist, and flying other flags supporting diversity and inclusivity.
It’s about cutting out the woke cancer that is taking over.
Farage not Garage! Bloody autocorrect!
Apparently flying only the Union Flag or St George Cross is “racist” – but then isn’t everything.
Why would we want to fly a Ukrainian flag? Are people still dumb enough to believe the official lies? (Rhetorical).