Sir Keir Starmer is a ‘patriot’ who backs flying the England flag, says Downing Street

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/08/18/starmer-patriot-backs-flying-england-flag-downing-street/

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40 comments

  1. What is this fucking obsession with flags ? Are people that forgetful they need constant reminding what country they’re in ?

  2. He’s always three days late and two quid short with his PR to counter Reform. Best he didn’t do anything at all so his anemic rolling shit show of a government doesn’t get noticed for how badly they are running stuff.

  3. As the British prime minister, should it not be the union jack?

  4. Why is he always late to the conversation? Labour speech training and communication department are an absolute god send for Reform.

  5. I can practically see Downing Street struggling to say it with a honest face.

  7. Flying a flag is a symbol of allegiance. Tearing down the flag of one’s own country and voicing support for a foreign flag… That’s not a good look for Two Tier Keir.

  9. The fact that it was Downing Street who issued the statement, and not Kier himself, shows how little he believes in it.

  10. Stamers government never seem to be ahead of the curve. Everything they say or do is damage control for some previous mistakem

  11. That’s great Kier. Could you maybe not piss billions up the wall on bad territory deals and maybe repeal the online safety act to show your patriotism instead?

  12. Funny joke.

    “Sir” Keir fucking hates everything about the UK 🤣

    One year before he was elected he actually said he hated Westminster and would rather not have to deal with democracy 🫤 it’s on YouTube.

  13. Wow, PM of England. 👍Does that mean Scotland and Wales are outa this “Union of equals?”

  15. Put him at odds with many labour councils and party members.

  18. The irony of all of this is the flag shagging talking points have all been imported from the US.

    In my 30 years in this country, growing up in the rural North East, studying in Manchester and now working in London where I currently live never have I, nor anyone I’ve known has cared about the Union Jack or St George’s cross.

    Honestly one of the proudest things I’ve felt about this country was that we didn’t have to do the wanky superficial shite the yanks do to prove we love our country. We just do.

    Now people are acting like flying a fucking cross on a cloth is essential to being a patriot. It’s fucking embarrassing.

  19. And yet anyone flying a union jack or st George flag, will be asked by the fascist councils to take them down or else, unless they offend anyone?? Sorry! What country are you in? What is the flag of that country? If you don’t like it, probably best to choose a country with a flag you do like the look of

  22. He’s the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of *Great Britain and Northern Ireland*, not of England, is he forgetting that?

  23. Nothing wrong with some flags, just don’t use it to say racist shit and fly it on your own property

  24. Why doesn’t he come out and say it himself.

    Seriously all the unrest there is and this guys disappeared.

  25. The only flags he flies are: LGBTQ++, Ukraine and Palestine

  27. Is it April fools?

    I don’t believe that starmer is a patriot at all. He’s a globalist…

    He would make a brilliant grey faced beaurocrat in the EU imo.

  28. Go back and watch him walking to number 10 the day he won the election. Union jacks and the Scottish flag. He is not patriotic for England

  31. Was it a bird? Was it a plane?

    Better ask Captain Hindsight!

  32. If I said I think that English people are better than Egyptians based on them being born there would you see that as a bad thing to say?

  33. is he fuck, he wore a white t-shirt when England were playing in the Euros (not an England shirt) as to not upset prospective voters in other parts of the UK.

  34. This week.

    Next week? Well, it’ll depend on focus group outcomes and how many of his back benchers get all frothy about it….

  35. Who gives a shit?
    With all that’s going on in the world this is the shit you care about?

    FFS. Grow up.

  36. All talk, if he was a real patriot he would make it law for all councils and government builds in England to fly it. 😒

  37. He also has an Arsenal flag on his bedroom wall…given free to him from Arsenal.

  38. He’s so desperate for approval.

    I mean, the Prime Minister of the UK being in favour of his own country’s flag is hardly an earth-shattering revelation is it? I’d kind of hope it was the case….

    What a total muppet.

  39. Patriot and Starmer do not belong in the same sentence.

  40. He’s a patriot?!? Really?

    Keir the patriot simply doesn’t sound right at all

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