Fly The Flag

[WillowTheWhisp]

Memo to self to get working on that 'claiming back the flag' signature tag I keep promising to create.

[Royboy39]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Memo to self to get working on that 'claiming back the flag' signature tag I keep promising to create.

Someones reading your thoughts Willow.

BBC NEWS | Politics | Brown lifts ban on national flag

[jambutty]

Here you are WillowTheWhisp. Does this help?

Nice one Gordon.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Let's hope this is the start of something positive. That bit about multiple patriotism probably applies to me. It isn't a problem unless the countries concerned should happen to go to war.

[jambutty]

I have no problem with someone showing patriotism towards the country of their birth but once they have arrived over here with the intent to stay for good, their first allegiance should be towards this country.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Gayle

So Wynonie, all that stick that you and Garinda gave me the other night - seems I'm not alone in the perception that the flag has been hijacked by extremists.

This direct quote from the article -

But while in other countries, such as France and the United States, the national flag is regarded as a source of pride, in recent years the Union flag has all too often become the preserve of political extremists, a symbol of discord rather than harmony," said the department.


I will expect an apology, forthwith!

Just because someone else was wrong in their assumptions, besides yourself, doesn't make you right.

Therefore no public appology...you'll have to make do with the karma appology, sent last weekend.

[bullseyebarb]

I am a flag flyer of the first order. Old Glory 365 days a year. Have two additional flagpoles. On one, I periodically fly the Union Jack. From the other a State flag.

A few years ago, a British friend told me that it was necessary to obtain permission in order to run the Union Jack up a flagpole over there. I was shocked. Any such restriction would never "fly" here.

[Stanaccy]

Originally Posted by jambutty

Patriotism and nationalism?

Same thing isn’t it? According to my dictionary it is.

From the Cambridge dictionary
nationalism Show phonetics
noun [U]
1 the desire for and the attempt to achieve political independence for your country or nation

2 a great or too great love of your own country:

patriotism Show phonetics
noun [U]
when you love your country and are proud of it.

I use the emphasis on TOO GREAT LOVE meaning the way the extreme right viewpoint.

BTW Mani, great post.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb

I am a flag flyer of the first order. Old Glory 365 days a year. Have two additional flagpoles. On one, I periodically fly the Union Jack. From the other a State flag

nice one bullseye, thats summat we agree on.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by bullseyebarb

I am a flag flyer of the first order. Old Glory 365 days a year. Have two additional flagpoles. On one, I periodically fly the Union Jack. From the other a State flag.

Mad isn't it? You can fly it over there more than we can over here!

[mallard]

Yes our flag should fly high its a thing that show,s we are grate to be what we are and who we are and we should be glad to be as well.

[Doug]

I've just ordered one on eBay. I've no sodding idea where I'm going to stick it but I'm impressed by Mr Brown's stance on this matter.

[cashman]

well hes only been in the job 2 mins and Gordon Brown has done more to restore pride with the simple gesture of flying the flag than ANY Labour or Tory government has done in the last 20yrs or more.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Not to mention what he's done for flag sales on eBay!

[steeljack]

Surely the EU flag should take precedence now that the UK is 'one of twelve'