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Just seen Jeremy Hunt wearing one. Obviously he's a hogseye of the highest order but are these a thing now? Is this where we're at? Are the rest of the chumps in parliament wearing them? Can someone please take it off him and cuff him round the lug hole for being such an anus?
He’s trying to get elected by Tory Party Members... think about that for a moment.
Tory...
Party...
Members...
I’m surprised he’s not sat next to a Lion dressed as Britannia.
At least it's not a cap.
Yet.
I've never noticed anyone wearing a pin badge with their countries flag on. Except Hells Angels.
Don't you like the Union Flag or is it just a case of Hunt wearing a badge with one on?
Well as long as it's just him and the other piss-stain I'll consider myself reassured
Edit: Essel the septics love it, before them, well....
It's just empty patriotic signalling that ends up labelling people who don't wear them as somehow traitors. I couldn't give a toss about the flag.
I won't vote for him unless he gets a bull dog tattooed on his leg
Brexit polled as more important to Tory members than the Union. I know it's hard to sum Brexit up as a pin badge but I'm sure I've seen an emoji that captured it.
It's standard form for Hunt.
He wore an NHS lapel badge while doing his best to destroy the NHS. Now he is wearing a Union Flag lapel badge...
Are we now copying the good old U S of A with our politicians wearing a reminder of the Union they're representing?
I’ve never noticed anyone wearing a pin badge with their countries flag on. Except Hells Angels.
Do you live in a cardboard box in the central reservation of the M6? The Americans have been doing it for years
Which is a good a reason as any not to.
Just got back California and yes they do love a flag out there whether it be the Californian flag or the US flag, but the same can be said about the Welsh and maybe the Scottish. Although hardly the worst thing in life to worry about.
I thought Canada was the most flag-obsessed country I've ever been to. National flags everywhere and State flags were very common in Newfoundland too. I think part of it is them trying to distance themselves from their nearest - and much larger - neighbour. The same can probably be said for Wales and Scotland
I really had hoped the disaster that is brexit would be a nail in the coffin of petty nationalism but it seems the opposite is true.
I grew up in Glasgow. Took me years to realise that the Union Jack wasn’t always a symbol of sectarian violence.
He’s trying to get elected by Tory Party Members… think about that for a moment.
Tory…
Party…
Members…
I would have thought a Swastika badge would have been more appropriate...
Nah that's Farage's bunch
Do you live in a cardboard box in the central reservation of the M6? The Americans have been doing it for years
Oh sorry, I didn't realise that I don't see many Mericans. Don't get many in North Yorkshire & I was in Barcelona & Florence 2 weeks ago, thousands of Yanks, never saw a starry striped pin badge. (The only thing that gave them away was the LOUD accents)
Anyway, what Scotroutes said.
Nah that’s Farage’s bunch
According to pollsters, most of the Tory Party Members voted for Farage in the Euro elections....
but the same can be said about the Welsh and maybe the Scottish. Although hardly the worst thing in life to worry about.
Come to Wales, plenty of Dragon symbols here 🏴🏴.
Only thing odd is people detesting their country so much, that a subtle display of their nations flag by a politician seeking high office is judged as derisory 🙁
Most of us don't detest our country. Just a small number who seem determined to demonise it. I don't go around displaying the union flag or St Georges cross but if I did I would wear them with pride. It's a shame we've allowed these symbols to become hijacked by the extreme ends of the political spectrum, especially the St Georges cross. The Scots and Welsh are proud to show off their flags and do so a lot and good on them for doing so....just like most nations on the planet. go around Europe and you'll see each nation proudly flying their nations flags...France is still adorned with their flag...it hasn't yet been replaced by the EU flag, similarly in Italy and Spain. they're all fiercely proud of their nations quite rightly.
I think it says more about a politician if they refuse to wear a pin badge of our flag. To be a politician is to serve our nation and if you can't openly demonstrate pride in your nation you have no business being a politician.
It’s a shame we’ve allowed these symbols to become hijacked by the extreme ends of the political spectrum, especially the St Georges cross.
This. Maybe if more ordinary folk wore/displayed the St Georges cross, the extremists would no longer "own" it.
I think it says more about a politician if they refuse to wear a pin badge of our flag. To be a politician is to serve our nation and if you can’t openly demonstrate pride in your nation you have no business being a politician.
Stuck between a rock and hard place, you end up with only Politicians and fascists wearing them...
I've just been putting together ads and editorial for the upcoming BattLe Prom concerts. I have never seen so many Union Jacks in one place outside a UKIP meeting.
I almost feel embarrassed by the quantity.
Are we now copying the good old U S of A with our politicians wearing a reminder of the Union they’re representing?
I assume BoJo got something like this on his lapel:
'patriotism & flags' has become weaponised in the era of trump & brexit
Hunt is desperately trying to appeal to a very narrow section of the public right now who are very susceptible to this.
Ironically their Brexit, particularly their no deal one is the most powerful driver for breaking up the union since its inception.
What will happen if the brexiters end up driving off Scotland/NI/Wales? we'll need a new flag, pin badges, passports etc etc
I still don't really understand nationalism (and flag wearing seems to go with this). As @Taxi25 suggests, maybe that is odd of me but i really don't get it. I mean, is it not just people saying "look where i was born!"?
I mean, is it not just people saying “look where i was born!”?
Not necessarily where they were born.
Most of us don’t detest our country. Just a small number who seem determined to demonise it. I don’t go around displaying the union flag or St Georges cross but if I did I would wear them with pride. It’s a shame we’ve allowed these symbols to become hijacked by the extreme ends of the political spectrum, especially the St Georges cross. The Scots and Welsh are proud to show off their flags and do so a lot and good on them for doing so….just like most nations on the planet. go around Europe and you’ll see each nation proudly flying their nations flags…France is still adorned with their flag…it hasn’t yet been replaced by the EU flag, similarly in Italy and Spain. they’re all fiercely proud of their nations quite rightly.
I think it says more about a politician if they refuse to wear a pin badge of our flag. To be a politician is to serve our nation and if you can’t openly demonstrate pride in your nation you have no business being a politician.
I think in most of Europe, and certainly here in Germany, normal people flying the flag is seen as nationalistic jingoism just as it is in England.
The flag is nothing to be proud of, it's just ridiculous pompous symbolism. We should be more proud of our history of music and comedy than a flag, a Norman Wisdom prat fall is more representative of Britain than the union flag, and we should be proud of that, laughing at ourselves is our greatest asset.
At least it’s not a cap.
WRONG
We had one house in the street flying a Union Jack for a while (was rented, thankfully they've moved out). Windows plastered in pro-Brexit posters. Basically says it all.
I would never fly the flat / wear a badge as it's no different to having a swastika tattooed on my forehead, just says 'I'm a Fascist'.
It's just virtue signalling but for a different set of people...
But otherwise, what MSP said. I don't mind a flag flown at government buildings, ceremonial occasions or at an international sporting occasion. But wearing pin badges, flying a flag in your front garden or having it on your registration plate (other than the EU flag to wind up gammons :o)...but that's just hypocrisy on my part I suppose) is just jingoism.
In the case of politicians wearing one, I just see it as more of the same bollocks copying US politicians in the constant chasing down the dream of a two-party system. Pretty soon, we'll get the same "Why isn't he wearing a pin badge with the union flag on it, eh?" questions that happen every Autumn when it's poppy season and someone chooses not to wear one.
It’s a shame we’ve allowed these symbols to become hijacked by the extreme ends of the political spectrum, especially the St Georges cross.
It's quite sad really, but whenever I see an England fan I assume the flyer is either a football fan or a racist. Or the rather large centre of that particular Venn diagram.
I remember hearing that the headmaster of Eton once put a not on the school notice board which read simply "Lapel badges: I think not."
A sensible rule to live by.
I spend quite a bit of time in Denmark and everyone has a flag pole in their garden. Wrapping paper is covered in the flag, mini flags are put on the dinner table on people's birthday and many products have the flag on.
They must have most flags per capita.
I just chose a random suburb of Copenhagen (Ballerup I think it was called) and did a quick trip of five or six streets of what seemed like fairly normal housing/apartments etc. I couldn’t find a flag flying anywhere. So then I chose another, Egebjerg this time, and did another few streets. Again, no flags, not even a flagpole. Are there days when it’s illegal to fly them or even have an erect flagpole - these could have coincided with the day’s that the google streetview car did its survey I suppose. 🙂
Maybe if more ordinary folk wore/displayed the St Georges cross, the extremists would no longer “own” it.
Given the mentality of the nutters who have made the cross of St George so toxic, they would just think they have won the argument.
In Jeremy Hunt’s credit (words I never thought I would use) at least he was wearing the union flag rather than pandering to the little Englanders that Boris seems to delight.
It’s a shame we’ve allowed these symbols to become hijacked by the extreme ends of the political spectrum, especially the St Georges cross. The Scots and Welsh are proud to show off their flags and do so a lot and good on them for doing so….
Just to be clear, the pro-independence groups have well and truly taken ownership of the Saltire now.