EU flag must be removed from outside former MEP’s house, council orders

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1. Planning consent?

   This Kafkaesque garbage needs to stop.

2. So weirdly dystopian. I bet the people who love this are the same who complain that they can’t hang up their England flags

3. Tbf planning laws around flags and what you can fly are quite specific (had a flag pole put up a couple years ago). We usually fly the Northumberland county flag, or the pride flag.

4. We absolutely need to build this country’s utterly archaic planning system.

5. The government changed planning rules specifically so that EU flags would require planning permission. The council in this case are just implementing that change.

   All other national flags explicitly do not require planning permission.

6. It’s also the flag of the Council of Europe which the UK is a member of, meaning it’s legal for her to fly it.

7. One of her local neighbours stuck a fucking fibreglass shark in his roof and refused to move it. Eventually got permission IIRC.

   She should go the same route.

8. Watch those who would ordinarily accuse those wanting to fly the flag of their own country ‘flag shaggers’ suddenly be completely outraged about this.

9. Well this flag shagger thinks this is completely wrong. It’s your property and your choice if and which flag you want to display, if you want it on a pole then you pay for the installation.

   As long as its not obstructive and safe I don’t see the problem.

10. Remember that what it means to live in a free country is that if you own land you can build whatever you want on it.

    It’s insane how far we are from that and how much freedom we’ve just willingly thrown in the trash so we can have petty squabbles about flags and pylons.

    Your rent is expensive because of these rules. Your energy bills are high because of the rules. You’ll never own a home because of these rules.

11. Flag goes down, price of food goes up. It’s Brexit physics.

12. Solution: buy a towel styled after the EU flag and hang it up prominently on a tall rack.

    A drying towel is not a flag.