ENGLAND flags can be “put up anywhere”, the Home Secretary has decreed after two councils tore them down.
Yvette Cooper said that more people “should be coming together around our flags” and revealed she had St George’s bunting and Union Jacks in her home.
Home Sec Yvette Cooper said that more people ‘should be coming together around our flags’[/caption]
Tower Hamlets & Birmingham local authorities last month sparked outrage by removing England flags triggering ‘Operation Raise the Colours’[/caption]
Both Tower Hamlets and Birmingham local authorities last month sparked outrage for removing national flags from public places.
It triggered a nationwide “Operation Raise the Colours” campaign that saw the standards hoisted on lampposts and drawn on roundabouts.
Asked if members of the public should be putting flags on infrastructure like motorway gantries, Ms Cooper told Times Radio: “Oh put ‘em up anywhere.
“I would put them up anywhere.
“I mean, we put them up anywhere.
“We have the St George’s flag above the Pontefract Castle.
“We fly in my constituency.
“So I think it’s good for us to feel proud of flags, of the Union Jacks, when we sing the national anthem but we also really be proud of our British values that underpin that and those British values.”
Defiant Brits vowed to hang hundreds of St George’s flags across the UK after councils sparked fury by tearing them down.
Flags were first raised in east London and Birmingham last month before council chiefs ordered them to be taken down.
The movement spread to communities across the country hanging up flags on their streets, including Manchester, Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich and the Isle of Wight, in defiance of council bans.
Activists continued to use a Facebook page to help gather flags together.
Members were chipping in with offers of transport and equipment, such as ladders.
One user posted: “60 of the 120 just collected… going to be a busy few evenings.”
A second wrote: “I just feel that the time has come to all band together and refuse to be bullied, we are proud of our country and should not be made to feel otherwise.”
Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman, who was found guilty of electoral fraud in 2015, has attempted to thwart the campaign.
National flags put up in the London borough will be ripped down “as part of routine maintenance”.
Patriots painted England flags on mini-roundabouts[/caption]
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