UNION FLAG ‘A ROAD HAZARD’

CRUMBRIA: 24/08/2025

AS predicted by the Chronic, Carlisle “newspaper”, the News & Shrug, has finally stumbled across the story about Crumberland Council killjoys removing union flags in the city.

It didn’t quote the man who put the flags up or why he felt compelled to do so.

Instead, the alleged newspaper took dictation from the Labour council’s clipboard class.

“Council issues guidance amid national flag-raising debate,” the paper announced, solemnly.

Up stepped an unnamed council spinner to explain that “unauthorised flags, posters, banners or other items attached to highway infrastructure” must be removed to prevent “distractions” and “damage”.

Flags on private property, readers were reassured, remain acceptable.

Curiously, the Council’s concerns about roadside “distractions” never seem to apply during election season when different political parties are hustling for your attention.

And it’s hard to imagine many motorists swerving into ditches after glimpsing a Union flag.

The paper focused all its attention on quoting those who regard flag-raising as a gateway drug to goose-stepping.

It rounded things off with a swipe at Robert Jenrick for his “confrontational stance” of raising flags in his own constituency.

That raising the national flag is now treated as a “controversy tells you plenty.

British national identity is something to be managed, cautioned against, or quietly taken down.

Other identities, meanwhile, are to be celebrated loudly, permanently, and without question.

Apparently, you can’t have both anymore.

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