‘Uncomfortable’ St George’s flags removed from city streets at £250k cost

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1. I can only assume that these councils are swimming in cash and all of their services are well funded if they’re willing to spend £250k on this

2. I’m sure the true patriots who spaffed them everywhere will be happy to foot the extra costs, so local services for local people are unaffected by the additional burden on local budgets.

3. There can’t be many English people in these area’s or in the council’s, if the flag of the country they are in, is ‘uncomfortable’..

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5. Many problems in our communities come from the fact that councils find a way to spend enormous amounts of money on trivial tasks. Theres no way it needs to cost £250k to remove some flags. How can it possibly cost that much?

6. Only british councils could find a way to spend £250k removing flags. I mean honestly, how the fuck do you justify spending that much on some flag removals.

   Edit: the mental gymnastics some of you are doing to justify this. Im sorry, maybe the work undertaken is understated, but there should be no worker, no contractor, that costs £250k for a few days/weeks worth of work removing flags and cleaning graffiti. This is exactly why councils are struggling, they’re being fleeced for jobs that shouldn’t cost anywhere near these prices. For these jobs this is the yearly wage of 5/6 people. This work hasn’t taken a year, it should be a few days to a couple weeks at most.

7. Section 132 of the Highways Act 1980. In all honesty they should be removed for a number of reasons like the geniuses locally to me who did them on some of the few concrete columns we still have that aren’t wonderfully structurally sound. If it was fully licensed under something like (it isn’t a perfect idea and there’s probably a better section) but Section 178 of the Highways Act, person gets their flag up, Council makes a bit of money, and ensures a safe system of work. This is just thick people destroying a Councils either lighting or reactive maintenance budget – as they know what the reaction has to be. In a word fucking moronic. I’m looking forward to when someone brings one down whilst in the process of putting their flag up and then points fingers rather than accepting the consequences of their actions and dealing with it like an adult.

8. I wonder if i can rent myself out to do jobs like this for 10k? I’ll bring my own ladders and a multitool.

9. Ah Rotherham, always wise to avoid scandal. Swimming in cash as well, so dropping a quarter of a mil on removing nasty English and British flags is great

   Keep the Palestinian ones though, can’t touch those. Must be budget issue?

10. If communities want flags, should council work with them to figure out a safe solution?

11. >The statement suggest not only did the flags correlate to “totally unacceptable racist attacks”

    Yes, that is not on. No one should be on the receiving end of racist attacks. These people should be dealt with.

    >She then went on to write that the “threatening and uncomfortable” tone set by flying the flags “could not go on”. Cllr Douglas said: “Many in our communities are feeling threatened and uncomfortable.

    Nope. Now you lost me. The “tone” by an English flag, in England? Don’t like it, then leave. Before people cry “The flag has been hijacked by far right!” No, no it hasn’t. It has been dumped by Anti-British left wingers that do everything they can to put this country down. Nope, I’m not left or right wing, I am English though and this is my flag and I _will not_ feel guilt for it. If you _think_ it’s been hijacked, then hijack it back and fly it yourself, go on, throw mud in the face of the Far right.

    But no, if you don’t like an English flag being flown in England, then this isn’t the country for you.

    Also, £250k to take down some flags and a bit of paint? Where was this money to fix pot holes, which you know, are legitimately dangerous, unlike a flag.

12. For clarification, there is no indication that the comfort of the flags was ever a consideration.

13. That sounds like a lot of money.

    From what I’ve seen locally the flags could all be taken down with a step ladder and/or some long handled clippers like you see people use on trees and tall hedges.

14. “council spends fortune removing risks to traffic and painting over graffiti”

15. “Government spends £250,000 to remove flags of own country from streets”

16. We’re never going to get to a stage where normal people feel comfortable with the English flag. Time and time again racists use it a symbol to push their hateful views and often time to intimidate people.

    Yeah, real community spirit making people feel welcome be they native born or not. I’m certainly what these morons would class as a native Englishman or Brit yet I feel uncomfortable over the St George’s cross grafiti popping up.

    I don’t wanna feel shame over the national flag but these lot make it impossible not to feel that way. Especially when this same lot get angry at the thought of any other flag being shown.

17. the cost of hurt feels is £250k? that is good to know!

    perhaps i can enquire to my local council about the way my bins are collected and returned?

    they leave them at the wrong angle to the fence you see, and without consideration for the position of the stars

    it should be a simple fix, but nonetheless i estimate £3.6m as the budget for contracting for this

18. Oh for fucks sake.

    How is it uncomfortable if the council did it?

    I get idiots using it as a weapon but the English flag being displayed without any intention to be used as a weapon?

    Fucking hell, if the England’s men’s team reaches the world cup and a council does this?

    That will backfire big time.

19. Whatever you think of the flag flying in the first place, surely it is better to spend this money on other things than running around taking them all down.

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