Amidst rising racism, Keir Starmer has revealed that he hangs the English flag in his home and:
always sits in front of a Union Jack.
Of course, the word ‘revealed’ there is more akin to the type of ‘reveal’ that happens when you lift the toilet lid to see a stinking turd looking back at you.
Never one to miss out, home secretary Yvette Cooper echoed these bizarre sentiments:
Asked if she’s got a flag on display in her home, the Home Secretary says she has Union Jack bunting, St Georges flags, St Georges bunting, and Union Jack flags and tablecloths. pic.twitter.com/gvYsfMqOrf
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) September 2, 2025
What else would you expect when racists are daubing roundabouts with England flags, spraying racist graffiti on takeaways, and mosques are attacked? Perhaps for political leaders that understand flags are symbols of nation states and rarely, if ever, just a simple expression of patriotism? Or, political leaders that understand their responsibility to head off another round of white riots?
No?
Fine, let’s dive in to the fuckery.
Racism on the rise and Starmer is busy looking at flags
Starmer defended his flag remarks, saying:
I’m proud of our flag as a patriotic symbol of our nation, like lots of people I’ve proudly got one up at home.
Using our flag to divide devalues it.
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) September 1, 2025
Do you think someone would do that? Use a flag to divide people?? If you share that sentiment of shock and surprise, then do get in touch with us – we’ve got some magic beans to sell you.
The increase in abhorrent racism and stoking of anti-immigrant hysteria should have been a slam dunk for any Labour prime minister. Simply say that you like the flag when it’s for the lionesses winning their latest trophy, and when it’s used a symbol of racism, those same racists must be rejected entirely.
However, Starmer isn’t just any Labour prime minister. He’s a charlatan Labour prime minister, so we all have to sit through his bumbling attempts to appeal to Reform voters who will never vote for him anyway.
And, Starmer’s cack-handed flag bollocks will have undoubtedly emboldened an already pretty fucking bold section of the country who think spreading terror to Muslims is acceptable behaviour. Al Jazeera reported that the South Essex Community Centre had a makeshift England flag left covering its entrance.
Unlike Starmer, local council leader Gavin Callaghan got the measure of the situation and said:
Don’t dress it up. Don’t excuse it. It’s scum behaviour, and it shames our town … The cowards who did this will be caught.
To do this right before Friday prayers is no coincidence. That’s targeted. That’s intimidation. And it’s criminal.
Imagine! A leader calling racism out for what it is!
Patriotism is no excuse
There’s been a pervasive excuse over the years that patriotism is an acceptable reason for flying the flag of your nation. But, we know more than we ever have about corrupt governments, crony politicians, and wealth hoarders. It doesn’t make any type of sense anymore – if it ever did – to be proud of your country. And, that’s even more the case when it comes to England and Britain. The flags of both states have been known as the butcher’s apron: heralds of vicious settler colonialism that continues to this very day.
Is it really worth flying those same flags along with the excuse ‘but I’m not doing it in a racist way’? Ultimately, flags are symbols. The symbols of England and Britain are drenched with the festering blood of colonial violence. These nations are so far away from even beginning to reckon with that colonial past, never mind its colonial present.
If you can show me a left-wing person who is proud to wave flags of England or Britain, I’ll show you a naive gullible fool. Pride has nothing to do with patriotism. Be proud! Be proud of your neighbours, your colleagues, your friends, the people, and not the nation states. See the good of local communities – but why restrict that to arbitrary borders drawn up by raging cunts?
The symbolism of flags will, of course, vary wildly depending on where you come from. Palestine and Sudan flags have become synonymous with solidarity with oppressed people. Whether English and British people like it or not, our flags are symbols of vicious and vile racism.
Doesn’t matter if it’s twee bunting, the Queen’s third birthday, for a game of sports ball, or otherwise. We all know what it means.
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