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AJWB:

--- Quote from: carbore on May 22, 2010, 21:33:36 ---Write to the local paper and get the to write a story about it.

--- End quote ---

Good idea - this is exactly the sort of story that gets local papers excited.

Personally England flags flying from the car aren't my cup of tea, but then this should be a free country and if I wanted to I should be allowed to fly them.

Disco Matt:
I think this PC nonsense has now become self-sustaining. People in authority are petrified of offending anyone, and don't bother asking those who might be offended whether something bothers them or not.

If you tried to stop us displaying our flag in Wales then you'd have a riot on your hands. There are no racist or extreme nationalist connotations with it as a result - you'll see plenty of car stickers and clothing with it on and nobody is remotely bothered. It's a simple case of saying "I'm proud of my homeland and I'm flying my flag". I would put one on the end of my CB aerial if I thought it'd stay attached and intact for any length of time!  :lol:

The English need to reclaim their flag as at the moment it has been stolen by football hooligans and fascist morons. For many years there seems to have been a media-led attitude of embarrassment (I've heard it called a "cultural cringe"), which led to a situation where your flag is seen as a symbol of nationalism rather than patriotism.

It can be done. As may be expected Germans have been very dubious about waving flags for the past few decades, even though the Bundesrepublik has done everything humanly possible to atone for the Nazi era and in any case it's a completely different flag. However at the last world cup there were hordes of cheering supporters draped with the current one. They've shaken off the connotations and reclaimed it.

strapping young lad:
i saw a quote the other day (car sticker)

england - love it or leave it

makes you think

disco2 td5:
It makes me think what am I doin here to be honest 
what I see in this country and all I can see is it Bein ruled with a bunch of people who are goin to bend over backwards for imigrans
let the musliam comunaty build as many mosques as they want give them 100% grants to build them
but when the church needs a new roof it's no grant and buy it yourself 
but if I try to get planning permition to put a church steaple on my house it would get rejected
if I tryed to put a copper dome on my house n said I were muslem it would get passed this is because they don't want too UPSET people 
But it's ok to upset someone like me who works like a mad man to buy a house who then pays his rates at some silly figer tax his car insure it mot it and for what so some uninsured driver can hit it then to be told to clame off my own insurance while the guy that hit me gets a slap on the wrist it's wrong
so in my eyes this country rips off and upsets any patritic guy or girl who wants to fly the st georges cross

Rant over

Mutz:
Surely the head IS being racist towards your wife??? for being English.

Is she English? Then she has the right to support her country.

If any flag of any country is displayed anywhere in the school, she will be entitled to have it removed under the heads law, ie its offensive.And agree with above get in touch with the papers.

This is a disgrace to the English; the Scots, Welsh, Irish fly their own nations flag. The English tend to use the union jack, which is the combined of the afore mentioned ie Great Britain (British).

Im English and proud of it, the Scots, Welsh and Irish do not say they are British do they!!!!!!!! They are proud to say where they are from but the English want to be British.

I personally fill in "whats your nationality" forms with English, crossing out British. I live in England which is part of Great Britain (UK), which in turn is part of Europe.

BRING BACK BEHEADING FOR TREASON. and put the head of the school first in line.

There i feel better for that :-#

Make St.Georges day a bank holiday, and lets start having some pride in this country. God knows weve got nothing else!!!!!!!

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