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- Birmingham City Council has started taking down national flags, including England's flag and the Union Jack, from lampposts around the city due to safety risks and planned maintenance work scheduled for 2025.
- This removal follows warnings that attaching flags adds stress that could weaken lampposts and risk collapse, and it is part of a streetlight upgrade to energy-efficient LEDs.
- Locals, especially in Weoley Castle and Northfield, have displayed flags as a patriotic gesture, sparking a passionate debate and fundraising efforts collecting over £5,000 for flags and supplies.
- An anonymous supporter said they put up flags because they 'had enough' and called the country 'a disgrace and has no backbone', while councilors recognize both community support and broader tensions.
- The council emphasizes removal ensures public safety and efficient streetlight work, but actions have attracted political criticism and highlight ongoing community divisions over national identity displays.
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English Flags Protest Sparks Clash as Councils Tear Them Down - American Faith
Across England, patriotic groups are raising Union Jacks and St. George’s flags in quiet defiance of the country’s mass migration agenda. Yet left-wing councils in cities like Birmingham and London have rushed to strip the flags down, citing “safety” concerns — even as they have tolerated Palestinian flags flying for months at a time. Birmingham’s Labour-run council removed English flags from lamp posts, claiming they endangered motorists. Conse…
Why is it okay to take down English flags but not Palestinian ones?
Sir Keir Starmer may lack popular appeal but he’s not silly. That’s why he has declared his support for the St George’s flag in the row about two councils in Muslim-majority areas, the latest Tower Hamlets, taking down both the English flag and the Union Jack.
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