What began as scattered acts of defiance has blossomed into a nationwide movement: St George’s Crosses and Union Jacks hoisted on lampposts, motorway bridges, and public spaces from Birmingham’s Shard End to Tower Hamlets in east London, Southampton to Brighton, and even Cannock. Roundabouts painted red and white, zebra crossings marked with the cross, symbols of England asserting themselves in the urban landscape. Last night I cycled through London’s Labour stronghold of Lambeth, and road markings have been transformed with the St George’s Cross, a quiet but bold reclamation in one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Dubbed “Operation Raise the Colours” by organisers (though it is hard to describe the phenomenon as organised), it has seen thousands of flags raised, with fundraising efforts like Birmingham’s £16,000 drive sustaining the effort. I support this gentle uprising, for it breathes life into symbols long marginalised.
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Prediction: Government bans sale of red and white spray paint.
I believe more than a gentle uprising will be needed to save the UK. The opposition the flag-hoisters have faced is mostly from the leftards such as Antifa and AWFLs and city councils and the cops.
When the muslim invaders decide to strike with all of the savagery they are known for you folks are toast.
These are strange times in more than one sense.
Up until a few days ago my Facebook feed was full of entertaining and uplifting reports of flags and large peaceful demonstrations – stories that the bbc led press were either ignoring or grossly mis-representing. Thank heavens for GB News and social media. Then 48 hours ago these stories abruptly stopped and now I’m back to my regular mish mash of cats, watches and pie & mash shops.
All that I have today is this sneering post from the female leader of Brighton and Hove Council, the council famous for being unable to empty bins:-
“Thank you to our hard working environmental service operatives who have restored this pedestrian crossing after it was vandalised.………… We know that real patriots don’t deface our shared public realm and in our City of Sanctuary (yes she really wrote that complete with capitals) we have no truck with vandalism intended to intimidate and divide”.
So what has caused this complete change in my recommendations? It’s hard to escape the conclusion that Facebook has been leaned on.
Censoring social media isn’t going to stop people from seeing with their own eyes while they are out and about. I particularly liked the idea of painting the George Cross on the potholes, poking the council and pointing out their uselessness in one go.
Really? How would a foreigner like you know?
Old Jack Tar, this foreigner knows that Englishmen couldn’t even save their daughters and other vulnerable girls from muslim rape gangs going back decades.
The Muslims aren’t going to do anything. This is between the people and the government. Remember, the government protects the Muslims, not the other way around.
Roue le Jour, if the government actually bends to the will of the people and starts deporting the invaders, the muslims won’t just sit back and let it happen.
So either way, according to the excitable Mr Cybulski, the UK is cooked. Well, thanks.
JP, I’d love to be proven wrong. I’d like to hear what meaningful corrective measures are actually being implemented or are in the works.
“I’d just like to start off by saying we’re definitely not going to arrest any of you lads but if you could park your weapons in the mosque it would help”.
I think that was pretty much verbatim.
I remember telling my kids not to poke vicious dogs.
I wasn’t really protecting the dog.
Why not just spray paint the asylum seekers? That way they’re advertising for their own deportation. They have literally become Union Jacks.
If I had to derive a theme from a reading of the last few weeks of Samizdata, it would be “the UK is cooked.”
Of course, it would be more correct to limit it to “the traditional British conception of the UK is cooked.” The UK will continue just fine. But it won’t be the Olde UK.
I often wonder, what proportion of people out there take little interest in political matters and just get on with their lives. The reason for their indifference being that they are doing quite alright thank you. Nice house, nice his and hers cars, nice annual foreign holiday, nice job with nice pension plan. Why would they care about Net Zero, free speech, and all the other aspects of shitty government when non of it affects them? Well not yet it doesn’t.
@bobby b
I think the last gasp of the Olde UK was when Eisenhower bullied Israel, France and Britain to back down over rhe Suez crisis.
*nods*
Bobby b, I would be very, very hesitant to take the word of Samizdata on this one. Seems to me that they certainly do love themselves a curry house, a kebab shop, and a Turkish barber, but the moment that they see the workers from those establishments going to shops to stock up for themselves and their families, our erstwhile compatriots do a little terrified wee in their knickers.
It’s not materially different from any point in, say, the last 50 years or so. It’s just that the people who simultaneously want to be able to get a chicken methi every week whilst also being offended by the availability of fenugreek leaves in the local Sainsbury now have internet access.
@neonsnake
It’s not materially different from any point in, say, the last 50 years or so.
That’s not true at all. Fifty years ago people didn’t get arrested for what they said, they had the means of self defense, and people who diddled with children were lucky if the rozzers arrested them before the locals used lamppost justice.
Back then Britain also had an actual conservative party that believed in, you know, conserving things, rather than a not-so-light version of the Labour party — a party that would today consider Harold Wilson a far right neo-Nazi. (Though it is worth saying that actually fifty years ago Britain was utterly crushed under the thumb of the labour unions — ironically demanding that we kept the coal mines open — until a certain lass, a grocer’s daughter, proved she had more balls than all the men in Westminster put together.)
Britain is probably cooked, the only light I see at the end of the tunnel is man named Nigel, and his chances of success are probably not high.
Though I did say that line about “chances of success are probably not high” about Trump too — so who the hell knows.