"‘A mini Battle of Cable Street’: the English neighbourhoods still grappling with the meaning of the flags"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-interactive/2025/dec/04/english-neighbourhoods-disputes-flag-flying-nationalism

'The controversy over flags has faded from the national agenda – but street by street, late at night and with ingenious equipment, their raising and removal is the subject of a roiling dispute over local identity'

#flagshaggers #UK #England #EnglishNationalism #Nationalism

‘A mini Battle of Cable Street’: the English neighbourhoods still grappling with the meaning of the flags

The controversy over flags has faded from the national agenda – but street by street, late at night and with ingenious new equipment, their raising and removal is the subject of a roiling dispute over local identity

The Guardian

Mike Nesbitt Highlights English Nationalism as Key Threat to Northern Ireland's Union Status

Mike Nesbitt, leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP), is expected to address the growing threat of English nationalism in his speech at the party's annual conference in Belfast. In his remarks, he will emphasize that Irish nationalists are no longer seen as the primary threat to Northern Ireland'... [More info]

Whatever shreds of dignity & credibility still lingering about the Conservative Party just went up in smoke with this front page.

A smarter man once observed "Brexit eats its children".

Well, Brexit ate the #Conservative Party & what come out stank of Farage.

#Tories
#Badenoch
#Brexit
#EnglishNationalism
#frogfacedgrifter

Just heard a BBC R3 announcer speak of "commemorating the ENGLISH [sic] American and Canadian forces..."

Completely unconcious, it seems, of the irony of a colleague having just spoken of the "lone piper" at dawn on Gold.

8 long years of relentless #EnglishNationalism has completely addled the brains of too many. It shrank Great Britain to Little England, and the ignorance and exceptionalism it has fostered is pitiful.

Difficult to overstate significance of this decision. Repressive secondary legislation signed by ex-Home Secretary Suella 'Trainee Photocopyist' Braverman 'KC' has been quashed by the Court, (of which she is an Officer & servant by reason of her status as Kings Counsel).

#EnglishNationalism fought the law every step of the way, from prerogative, prorogation, 'limited & specific' breaches of International Law, to failing to endorse ICC orders.

And we know who wins.

https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/court-finds-government-anti-protest-legislation-unlawful-after-liberty-legal-challenge/

Court finds Government anti-protest legislation unlawful after Liberty legal challenge - Liberty

Liberty
Performative cruelty against the weakest; asylum seekers, the homeless, the disabled. Redoubled now for the elections. Such are the calling cards of the proto-fascists, who always walked among us, but whom we vaulted into power. Systematically stripping citizens & would-be residents of rights, dignity & security in the name of false "liberty" & "patriotism", 14 yrs of #Tory has produced the most pitifully awful & disgusting leaders & Governments in our modern history.
#EnglishNationalism

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68131541

#Sunak 'disappointed' he presided over the enactment of a crappy divisive authoritarian law that no-one wants & no-one will invoke.

'Disappointed' he has moved the #Tory Party further into the margins of irrelevance to the needs & interests of commerce.

'Disappointed' to discover that declaratory statutes attempting to rule by decree & coercion are not worth the paper they are written-on.

Not as 'disappointed' as the Electorate is in his useless #EnglishNationalism

Rishi Sunak disappointed new rail strike law not used, says No 10

Train operators are not enforcing minimum service levels to ease the impact of upcoming strikes.

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#Tory spin doctors trying to revive the cuddly 2015 "One Nation" Call-me-Dave hogwash in time for the General Election, overlook that having shoved their #EnglishNationalism down our collective throats, at least 2 of the 4 constituent UK nations, having had their EU citizens' rights confiscated contrary to their EXPRESS democratic instruction, are extremely pissed-off.

A local undertaker's firm marketing itself with a full double-frontage 'lest we forget'.

I'm done with the fetishisation of 'Remembrance'; 2 min silences, cut-outs in the office foyer & public spaces, the parade of gormless ex-PMs. 
All WWI veterans are dead & few WW2 still with us. This isn't about 'educating' next generations, but about those generations who took no part, confronting our own transience. The frenzy has risen with the resurgence of brash #EnglishNationalism, & i reject both.