Workers Tear Down St George’s Cross on Orders of Council That Prided Itself on Palestinian Banners as Flag Wars Spread Across Britain
St George’s flags are being ripped down by Tower Hamlets council, sparking accusations of hypocrisy over Palestinian banners and fuelling a nationwide flag row. The Mail has the story.
Tower Hamlets previously prided itself on its displays of Palestine banners, but said any England flags attached to council property as part of an online movement called ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ would be promptly removed.
The initiative has spread to towns and cities including Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich and Swindon – with activists putting up England and UK flags in defiance of council bans. …
Campaigners were today seen painting roundabouts in Birmingham in England colours after officials sparked fury last week by tearing down St George’s Crosses in the south of the city over claims they posed a safety risk.
Operation Raise the Colours supporters filmed themselves putting up England flags in Tower Hamlets last night, but this morning workers from the local council were pictured removing them with metal poles.
The authority is led by Lutfur Rahman of the pro-Palestine Aspire Party, and previously refused to remove hundreds of Palestine flags that were hanging from lamp posts and council buildings in the borough so as not to “destabilise community cohesion”. Mr Rahman – who was previously found guilty of electoral fraud – finally ordered them to be removed last year after Jewish locals complained they were intimidating and divisive. …
Approximately 39.9% of people in the borough are Muslim, the largest proportion of any local authority area in the UK.
A number of St George’s flags have been put up across Tower Hamlets over recent days.
In response, a spokesman for the council vowed to remove them.
“We are aware members of the public have been putting up St George’s flags on various structures,” the spokesman said.
“While we recognise people wish to express their views, we have a responsibility to monitor and maintain council infrastructure.
“Where flags are attached to council-owned infrastructure without permission, they may be removed as part of routine maintenance.” …
Operation Raise the Colours began on Facebook and has spread across the country.
It appears to have its roots in Birmingham, where scores of British flags sprung up in the suburb of Northfield.
Birmingham City Council quickly confirmed it would begin ripping them down and claimed they posed a safety risk despite flying high above the traffic.
A backlash to the decision deepened further after officials privately admitted they were too scared to take down Palestine flags without extra security. …
Critics also pointed out that the city’s library was being lit up in the colours of the Pakistan flag to mark the anniversary of the country’s independence, followed by the Indian flag.
Well it’s a litmus test, I’ll say that much. A test to demonstrate who has loyalty to the UK, whether they were born there or not, and who is a traitor or free-loader. It’s a test to check the extent of the ‘dhimmitude’ of citizens and how far along this whole Islamization project is now. It’s also a test to see who’s got the balls to stand up and oppose what’s occurring versus the ‘head in the sand’, sackless wonders who just go with the flow. I’ve always said: It’ll be the apathetic that are the death of us, not the Islamists or globalists. The ones that sit on their arses at home, not voting and expecting everyone else to fight their battles for them; ”What awaits Western Europe is not mass deportations nor full Islamization: it’s civil war. Too large a part of the population is already rotten to make mass-deportations work — elites corrupted by ideology, middle classes addicted to comfort, bureaucracies built on paralysis. The machinery of enforcement is rusted from within. Even if the order were given, half the country would rise against it, not in defense of law, but in defense of the very chaos… Read more »
I think k you’re right, it is a litmus test, and I salute the genius of whoever dreamt this up.
Bringing the dividing lines into plain sight.
I think it is an extremely astute move.
Westfieldmike
7 months ago
We are being provoked into civil war, I think it’s deliberate, to enable the dark forces to use all out violence on demonstrators or rioters.
Met police have been filmed carrying out riot practice, with some officers dressed up in England flags throwing petrol bombs.
They are preparing for the worst.
I like these people, they’re fun. But they also talk sense. I wasn’t sure if this was parody at first but they’re getting more and more traction on social media now; ”Its time to Mark our territory! Lets get everyone from every corner of the UK and Ireland involved. Its time to get patriotic. Fly your flags high!” https://x.com/KnightsTempOrg/status/1957474010544980064 Top comment. Shame on any council worker who rips down the England flag because ”we’re just following orders”. You’re a traitor, authorities who order this are guilty of treason. I wouldn’t be able to stick at a job where I was forced to compromise my principles; ”Councils now tear down England’s own flag not because it offends the law, but because it offends them. They despise the people so much that they treat patriotism as a crime. They tolerate foreign flags on lampposts. They excuse political banners from Gaza to Kabul. Yet let an Englishman raise his own colours and the council scurries to remove them. This is not about flags it is power. About breaking the will of a people. About teaching you that your pride is forbidden. They call it “policy.” In truth, it is the first page of… Read more »
Mogs I agree 1000% but I am totally suspicious that joining them gets you in a watch list, I would suspect this is a security services front… do I care ?
Yes but only because in a couple of years I’ll need to renew my firearms licence and I’m pretty sure by then they’ll be looking out for this stuff.
I’m sure I remember years ago working in bars and shops and we weren’t allowed to take Scottish bank notes. I’m fairly certain that’s not a false memory. But nowadays the whole of the UK face a common enemy, so it’s very much ”One for all and all for one”, I think;
”To give you an idea of how England has changed – when I moved here 25 years ago, I’d see an English flag and think “hmm, might be a bit rough, hope they don’t have beef with me because I’m Scottish”. Now when I see one I think “Thank God! I’m amongst brethren!”
Tower Hamlets … said any England flags attached to council property as part of an online movement called ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ would be promptly removed.
It says that the Aspire party is “pro Palestine” – whatever that means. To be honest I can’t get too excited about that. But taking down our national flag shows that they are certainly anti-white
I have vague memories of Northern Ireland around 1965(?) where there were flag wars, including legislation about flags in the workplace. These were precursors of 30 years of The Troubles. Even in 1990 (and still today?) there were echoes of those days in the form of flags, kerbstones and street furniture, which marked out rival territories, with a sort of hierarchy of enclaves and sub-enclaves. The current flag craze is evocative of half a century ago, and I suspect will lead to a comparable conflict in the UK and Eire, albeit with a different religious and cultural divide.
They were the first thing that leapt out at me on my first ever visit to NI!
Heretic
7 months ago
Brilliant! And what a photo at the top of the page! Ethnic Africans in England removing England flags put up by English People on English lamp posts paid for by English Taxpayers.
I wish you all good luck. I’ll admit I felt powerless to stop things like this, and emigrated to a country where the people hold on to their identity and where people of all creeds do not want to destroy the country which they, their parents and grandparents made their home.
National Identity is no longer something we are to be proud of. It is something we must continually apologise for. The new morality is globalism, and desire to be an Independent Nation —-suspicious and even dangerous.
Pete Sutton
7 months ago
Typical of the Postal Vote Islamic Republic of Tower Mohamlets.
Another thing to notice in the top picture is the ethnicity of the council workers being used to remove the flags!
If they’d had been white they would have got all sorts of verbal aggregation from the public but being black, the racist card is being used by the councils to great effect!
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Well it’s a litmus test, I’ll say that much. A test to demonstrate who has loyalty to the UK, whether they were born there or not, and who is a traitor or free-loader. It’s a test to check the extent of the ‘dhimmitude’ of citizens and how far along this whole Islamization project is now. It’s also a test to see who’s got the balls to stand up and oppose what’s occurring versus the ‘head in the sand’, sackless wonders who just go with the flow. I’ve always said: It’ll be the apathetic that are the death of us, not the Islamists or globalists. The ones that sit on their arses at home, not voting and expecting everyone else to fight their battles for them; ”What awaits Western Europe is not mass deportations nor full Islamization: it’s civil war. Too large a part of the population is already rotten to make mass-deportations work — elites corrupted by ideology, middle classes addicted to comfort, bureaucracies built on paralysis. The machinery of enforcement is rusted from within. Even if the order were given, half the country would rise against it, not in defense of law, but in defense of the very chaos… Read more »
I think k you’re right, it is a litmus test, and I salute the genius of whoever dreamt this up.
Bringing the dividing lines into plain sight.
I think it is an extremely astute move.
We are being provoked into civil war, I think it’s deliberate, to enable the dark forces to use all out violence on demonstrators or rioters.
Met police have been filmed carrying out riot practice, with some officers dressed up in England flags throwing petrol bombs.
They are preparing for the worst.
I like these people, they’re fun. But they also talk sense. I wasn’t sure if this was parody at first but they’re getting more and more traction on social media now; ”Its time to Mark our territory! Lets get everyone from every corner of the UK and Ireland involved. Its time to get patriotic. Fly your flags high!” https://x.com/KnightsTempOrg/status/1957474010544980064 Top comment. Shame on any council worker who rips down the England flag because ”we’re just following orders”. You’re a traitor, authorities who order this are guilty of treason. I wouldn’t be able to stick at a job where I was forced to compromise my principles; ”Councils now tear down England’s own flag not because it offends the law, but because it offends them. They despise the people so much that they treat patriotism as a crime. They tolerate foreign flags on lampposts. They excuse political banners from Gaza to Kabul. Yet let an Englishman raise his own colours and the council scurries to remove them. This is not about flags it is power. About breaking the will of a people. About teaching you that your pride is forbidden. They call it “policy.” In truth, it is the first page of… Read more »
Mogs I agree 1000% but I am totally suspicious that joining them gets you in a watch list, I would suspect this is a security services front… do I care ?
Yes but only because in a couple of years I’ll need to renew my firearms licence and I’m pretty sure by then they’ll be looking out for this stuff.
Take care out there.
Agreed. The Authorities are deliberately stoking civil unrest in order to justify implementation of a Surveillance and Control society.
I just invested in a couple of flags as well, before they get banned.
I’m sure I remember years ago working in bars and shops and we weren’t allowed to take Scottish bank notes. I’m fairly certain that’s not a false memory. But nowadays the whole of the UK face a common enemy, so it’s very much ”One for all and all for one”, I think;
”To give you an idea of how England has changed – when I moved here 25 years ago, I’d see an English flag and think “hmm, might be a bit rough, hope they don’t have beef with me because I’m Scottish”.
Now when I see one I think “Thank God! I’m amongst brethren!”
https://x.com/LeoKearse/status/1957420559697838463
Tower Hamlets … said any England flags attached to council property as part of an online movement called ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ would be promptly removed.
Thus our enemy reveals itself. Thanks.
It says that the Aspire party is “pro Palestine” – whatever that means. To be honest I can’t get too excited about that. But taking down our national flag shows that they are certainly anti-white
Anti English.
Tower hamlets, the future of English towns, if we don’t act now.
F’ckin’ shitole.
And we know why.
I have vague memories of Northern Ireland around 1965(?) where there were flag wars, including legislation about flags in the workplace. These were precursors of 30 years of The Troubles. Even in 1990 (and still today?) there were echoes of those days in the form of flags, kerbstones and street furniture, which marked out rival territories, with a sort of hierarchy of enclaves and sub-enclaves. The current flag craze is evocative of half a century ago, and I suspect will lead to a comparable conflict in the UK and Eire, albeit with a different religious and cultural divide.
I like the idea of painting kerbstones !
They were the first thing that leapt out at me on my first ever visit to NI!
Brilliant! And what a photo at the top of the page! Ethnic Africans in England removing England flags put up by English People on English lamp posts paid for by English Taxpayers.
The England flags on lamp posts look beautiful.
I wish you all good luck. I’ll admit I felt powerless to stop things like this, and emigrated to a country where the people hold on to their identity and where people of all creeds do not want to destroy the country which they, their parents and grandparents made their home.
If it’s okay to show the flag on the attached picture, then it’s okay to go on a lamppost.
National Identity is no longer something we are to be proud of. It is something we must continually apologise for. The new morality is globalism, and desire to be an Independent Nation —-suspicious and even dangerous.
Typical of the Postal Vote Islamic Republic of Tower Mohamlets.
Another thing to notice in the top picture is the ethnicity of the council workers being used to remove the flags!
If they’d had been white they would have got all sorts of verbal aggregation from the public but being black, the racist card is being used by the councils to great effect!