Posted on 08/28/2025 11:43:54 PM PDT by grundle
A left-wing MP for York has demanded that the local Labour council u-turn and begin taking down flags from lamp posts, or risk the “break down” of society. Rachel Maskell, who was elected as a Labour MP before being suspended following the recent welfare cuts rebellion, issued the call after York became a focal point of the nationwide patriotic protest movement.
Ms Maskell said York Council should act to remove the flags, despite the local authority being one of the few Labour councils promising not to take down the vast bulk. She told YorkMix: “Over recent days, I have been inundated with messages from residents concerning the placement of flags and painting of the highways by members of the public.
"While I believe members of all sections of the community must be heard concerning their perspective on different local and national issues, it must be within the confines of the law.
“Placing flags on lampposts and painting infrastructure is not within the law. There is good reason for this. If laws are breached, societies can break down and we all ultimately lose.”
“I congratulate the council for engaging with those individuals who have been leading the campaign. That’s absolutely right thing to do.
“But also we need to make sure that we can’t just attach signs and symbols to anything. I can’t put up my own signs and symbols without prior permission, nor can anyone else.
“It’s caused some issues around altercations in communities. We need to take that out of communities, and the simplest way is just saying we’re going to apply the law.”
Last week the Express revealed York Council was breaking from Birmingham and Tower Hamlets in allowing the vast majority of flags to remain up.
A spokesman told this paper: “We have no plans in place to remove flags that have been put up recently by members of the public. The one exception is on a short stretch of road beside York racecourse – and that’s because of a number of high-profile events this week.”
The authority also welcomed that the group behind much of the recent ‘flagtivism’, Flag Force UK, had promised to also put donations towards litter picking and other actions to improve local communities.
Responding to Ms Maskell’s call, Flag Force blasted: “A failed MP who isn’t even from York is now demanding the council take down our national flags.”
They also highlighted a speech delivered by Ms Maskell nine years ago calling for more refugees “until we reach saturation point”, adding: “what does it matter if we have to wait another week for a hospital visit or if our class sizes are slightly bigger”.
“A left-wing MP for York...”
Facere Eboracum magnum iterum...
(with apologies to Shakespeare and Richard III)
Ha, good one.!
“If laws are breached, societies can break down and we all ultimately lose.”
Galactically ironic; apply this to your immigration policies, lady.
England is long dead. Very sad.
I believe two things are true:
1) the entirety of the political class in Europe is compromised in such a way that they would be wholly and completely eliminated if the public knew the truth
2) the entirety of the political class in Europe is abjectly evil and incapable of reversing the course they’ve taken out of pride, animus, or total stupidity.
There should be something other than flags hanging from those poles.
enemies
Elon Musk’s St. George’s flag tweet is now over 82 million views...
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1960230222441193644
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That is rich. It sounds like it is already broke. Little girls do their fighting now.
Hey! Rachel! The destruction of your ‘society’ is already well underway. As long as you allow the muzzies to move in, breed and rule, you will slip further and further down that slippery slope to sharia law.
In September 2015, during the European refugee crisis, Maskell called on the UK to open its doors to refugees.[13] Speaking as 20,000 refugees arrived in Munich in one weekend,[14] and as the German Government received 800,000 refugees in 2015,[15] Maskell said that the UK Government must do more. She questioned David Cameron in the House of Commons asking “what criteria has the Prime Minister used to arrive at a figure of just six refugees per constituency per year?”[16] She urged local authorities to help in every way they could and to use every space they had to offer to aid people fleeing war in Syria and Northern Iraq.[17]
I hung out my St. Georges flag yesterday.
They should replace the flags with pictures of Mohammed to show solidarity with the muslim overlords. The MP should suggest this.
LOL
Bring down the flag boys: it’s over.
Put up the isis flag.
I was working in England in 1992. There was a case on TV where a Pakistani immigrant family was living in London, on welfare, living in a government owned house. They complained to the court about a house down the road, where a large Union Flag was flying.
The complaint, loudly and often made, was that they did not want to be reminded that they were in England, and the home owner should be made to take down the flag.
A few weeks later, I took a long taxi ride in London, and the driver was the home owner with the flag! He explained that he was an army veteran, and very patriotic. He was under pressure from the local city council to remove the flag, to comply with the Paki complaints.
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