Gary Neville Suffers Backlash as “Angry” Workers Who He Ordered to Remove Union Jack Accuse Him of Suppressing Free Speech
Footballer turned property developer Gary Neville is facing a furious backlash after he ordered builders at a £400 million construction site to take down a Union Jack, saying that “angry, middle-aged white men” were using flags to divide the country. The Mail has more.
Neville, 50, who is known for his Left-wing views, revealed in a video message posted on the LinkedIn website that he had the flag removed “instantly” as soon as he saw it.
The ex-Manchester United defender and Captain spoke out in his video about “angry, middle-aged white men” dividing the country by “using the Union Jack in a negative fashion”.
But construction workers who had been flying the flag at his St Michael’s office redevelopment site in Bootle Street, Manchester, were outraged by his intervention.
One worker accused Neville, who has become a property developer since he stopped playing football, of being unpatriotic and suppressing free speech.
He said that the former England footballer saw the Union Flag as he walked past, and immediately went to the gate and asked to speak to the construction site manager over the radio system, so he could demand it was taken down.
The employee exclusively told the Daily Mail: “He was walking past when he saw the flag flying on the fifth floor along with a Moldovan flag and another one.
“He got on the radio to one of the workers and started asking why the Union Flag was up there. He only mentioned the Union Flag, not the other two – and said it had to come down.
“Obviously he is the boss, and we are not going to argue with him. But Union Flags are normally put on building sites. It happens all over the country.
“Gary Neville played for England, but he won’t let us put a flag up to celebrate the country where we live. It’s caused a lot of anger. This wasn’t discussed, we were just told.
“He didn’t mention the Moldovan flag or the other. He only had a problem with the Union Flag.
“Afterwards we had to do ‘toolbox chats’ for everyone about political messages on the building site. Basically we had to explain why we can’t have flags, and we can’t express our political views because Gary Neville says we can’t.”
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I wonder which characteristic he has?
Angry? Yep. It seems so.
Middle Aged? Yep. Sure looks like it.
White? Yep.
Man? Not sure I’m allowed to guess.
Mr Neville turns up at Davos this year. https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1974889808486178976?t=NQ-aAezhHfhRxD01y5DK8Q&s=08
Wouldn’t it be fun for his employees to fly a different flag each day and see which ones he asks them to take down. I’m guessing rainbows and Palestinian flags would be OK. Possibly EU too.
How do we account for the white anti-whitists and English anglophobes? Do other countries have so many self-haters?
In many countries that would be a posthumous designation.
Mr Neville will be relieved to know that he is free to renounce his British citizenship at any time. There are many people keen to assist him with the paperwork and with locating a new homeland. Doubtless commenters on this site will have many suggestions as to where that might be. The important thing is that he no longer has to endure the sight of Britain’s national flag (or feel the obligation to sing its national anthem, to which he appears not to know the words).
Another ball-kicker turned clown-commentator. Over paid to say the least. Slightly retarded. Dull. We can enrich him by removing Neville to say Nigeria, Iraq, or Wuhan. Let’s see how multi-cultural he finds those locales.
The article seems very coy about identifying the third flag. UK, Moldova and…?
What a jerk.
An ill-educated, bloody thick tw#t. A complete oxygen thief. He might change his tune come the budget.
Supposedly a leader of men, yet not man enough to love his country. Worse, he condemns those who do. The politest word I can offer to describe this weak, spineless, “woke” creature is scumbag.
Our athletes, sportsmen & women, routinely wrap themselves in the flag when winning (as does every other nation) ; perhaps he thinks they are all “deplorables”.
The flag phenomenon was only started as a defiant response to people like you who try to make British people cowed and ashamed.
Gary, we know you are pathetic; it would be better if you keep it quiet by KEEPING YOUR MOUTH SHUT.
I think these daft mares are on Team Neville. This is speak cringe;
”Raise The Colours Harborne Part One
“There’s nothing wrong with the flag, it’s what you’re trying to say with the flag”
Our message couldn’t be any clearer we want to restore national pride and unite the kingdom under the flag.
The mad leftists are the aggressors that are stoking division, not us!
Watch the FULL VIDEO on our YouTube channel.”
https://x.com/RTCORGUK/status/1975563258166714748
It comes to something when British Indians ( or any other non-whites, for that matter ) are more patriotic than stupid, white natives. Just goes to show, skin colour means nowt, it’s shared values that count;
”This is for all of us, this is our country
We all live here, and we should all get behind our bloody flag.
Unity and restoring national pride are our goals”
https://x.com/RTCORGUK/status/1975510856373829897
There is a world of difference between skin colour and culture. Skin colour shouldn’t matter. Culture matters.
Which is precisely why some cultures/religions have no bother integrating and respecting the adoptive country’s culture, when, by contrast, Islam does not.
Speaking of incompatible cultures: this made me laugh because of the reactions, but I bet I’d be exactly the same 🤭
https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/1975674998531760584
Left wing views, former footballer £400 million development.
oh yeh. He’s [ NOT] one of us.
go back to Uniparty and shut your face up.
Clearly didn’t learn from the contempt Lineker is now held in.
is it compulsory for professional footballers to be thick as mince?
Just asking since so many of them seem to fit the description.
Seems so but doesn’t David Beckham show how well you can get on without an exceptional talent with the money he rakes in by keeping his gob shut.
“in a negative fashion”? Depends which side you’re on!
What an idiot.
His Dad is named ” Neville Neville”, that tells you all you need to know about his ability to think outside the box.
People in the USA cannot believe what is happening in the Uk, including flying your national flags. We feel like we are watching a horror show with no end in sight.
Oh but the end IS in sight. There are two huge forces swelling against these woke Leftists. One is Farage’s Reform UK party, from whom the globalist Uniparty is openly running scared, and the other is led by Tommy Robinson, where over a million demonstrated in London last month, amid a sea of flags. This is what provokes the likes of scumbag Gary Neville.
Saturday Sept 13 2025: the million strong London rally by Tommy Robinson, including big-screen interview with Elon Musk. “Unite the Kingdom”.
Videos:
1) From the Independent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSggKl9pgA&t=99s
(This has now been DELETED from YouTube, as it was the showing the turnout as well over a million, while the paper reported “thousands”.)
2) From Tommy on his X account, showing aerial view from the Guardian’s helicopter:
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1966956948194292004?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1966956948194292004%7Ctwgr%5E4a0c0908b319c05158bbbc41b58a863c2ec2f455%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thevettebarn.com%2Fforums%2Fshowthread.php%3Ft%3D146538
3) Katie Hopkins Speech for Freedom: “they imprisoned Tommy, they killed Charlie, but THEY CANNOT STOP US NOW”:
https://x.com/KTHopkins/status/1966995601343570116?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1966995601343570116%7Ctwgr%5E1d8fc77ffac7ad47c0d76c17b43cfefecde62314%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativewoman.co.uk%2Fthe-unite-the-kingdom-rally-my-firs
Kathy Gyngell (Conservative Woman) reports her “press pass” experience:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-unite-the-kingdom-rally-my-first-hand-account/
I always find the idea of a socialist property developer amusing. I’m assuming all his properties are not NFP social housing projects.
If not it’s as paradoxical as a killer pacifist.