By Roy Hobbs, patriot and proud Englishman, take that however you like
SO ethnic minority NHS staff doing home visits are intimidated by my flags? I don’t get it. Why be scared of a flag that just means you like England and nothing else?
My St George’s flags are my way of saying I enjoy traditional fried breakfasts, visiting the lovely English countryside, and supporting the Lionesses. Are these people afraid of Chloe Kelly? Please treat that as a genuine question.
I’ve got a few flags, but it’s hardly excessive. The main one is only 9ft across, unobtrusively draped across the front of my house to balance out the other 21. And the neighbours’ flags, but they’re the nicest bunch of shaven-headed angry white blokes you could ever meet.
Sure, if you let your imagination run riot you can read other meanings into the flag. Meanings like ‘Outside football tournaments, this is the chosen symbol of racists who display it at hotel protests and openly call for mass deportation’. Bit of a stretch, though.
If you know your history, you’ll associate it with St George killing a dragon, which is fun for kids. Okay, there were Crusades it was a big part of where we slaughtered Muslims, but focus on the dragon. Are these NHS staff afraid of dragons? I’m pretending to think they might be!
I’ll concede that a few hotheads may have waved St George flags at largely peaceful events involving a small element of rioting, arson and attempted murder. But that’s in the distant past of 2024. I promise you, there are no no-go zones on this estate. They’re only in places with sharia law, like Bradford and Birmingham.
Frankly, if they’re terrified of this country’s flag, they should choose a a less stressful career than the NHS such as pissing off back to where they came from and joining ISIS. But these days, if you make a helpful suggestion like that in perfectly good faith, they’ll call you a racist.
