{"id":353754,"date":"2025-08-18T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353754\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T08:38:10","slug":"council-savaged-for-absurd-national-loathing-after-england-flags-removed-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/353754\/","title":{"rendered":"Council savaged for ‘absurd national loathing’ after England flags removed | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A senior Tory<\/a> MP has accused a London<\/a> council of \u201cabsurd national loathing\u201d after announcing it would remove England flags attached to lampposts. Several St George\u2019s flags were raised in Tower Hamlets, east London, as part of a patriotism campaign dubbed \u201cOperation Raise the Colours\u201d which has gained increasing attention online.<\/p>\n

A furious row has erupted after Tower Hamlets council said it would be removing the flags \u201cas soon as possible\u201d which are \u201cattached to council-owned infrastructure without permission\u201d. The move has sparked a furious reaction, with one person calling it a \u201cdisgrace\u201d. The local authority, run by the pro-Gaza<\/a> Aspire Party, has also been accused of \u201ctwo-tier bias\u201d as it reportedly didn\u2019t take down Palestine flags for months after they were put up following the start of the Israel<\/a>–Hamas<\/a> war.<\/p>\n

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick<\/a> told The Telegraph: \u201cTower Hamlets council have allowed Palestinian flags to be publicly displayed on lampposts but not the flag of our country.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis absurd national self-loathing must end. This is yet more two-tier bias against the British people. We must be one country united under the Union flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reform UK<\/a> MP Lee Anderson<\/a> also expressed his anger, saying it is \u201cnothing short of a disgrace\u201d and \u201cshows utter contempt for the British people\u201d.<\/p>\n

A Tower Hamlets Council spokesman confirmed the flags, including those attached to lampposts, would be removed.<\/p>\n

They said: \u201cWe are aware members of the public have been putting up St George\u2019s flags on various structures. While we recognise people wish to express their views, we have a responsibility to monitor and maintain council infrastructure.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere flags are attached to council-owned infrastructure without permission, they may be removed as part of routine maintenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman ordered Palestine flags to be removed from council buildings and lampposts in March last year after Jewish families said it had made them feel unwelcome in the borough for the first time, The Telegraph reports.<\/p>\n

St George\u2019s flags and Union flags have been put up on streets across the UK, including Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich and Epping in Essex where there have been a series of high-profile protests over a migrant hotel.<\/p>\n

Last week, Birmingham Council ordered the removal of hundreds of flags from lampposts in the city<\/a>, claiming they put pedestrians and motorists \u201cat risk\u201d. However, Union and St George’s flags have been seen back on lampposts in the city to protest against the council’s decision<\/a> to take them down.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, there were protests outside a migrant hotel in Canary Wharf<\/a> which is in Tower Hamlets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Tory MP has accused a London council of \u201cabsurd national loathing\u201d after announcing it would remove…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[527,393,124864,13,48962,257,12,386,24488,124865,14,22145],"class_list":{"0":"post-353754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-conservative-party","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-england-flag","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-lee-anderson","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-reform-uk","16":"tag-robert-jenrick","17":"tag-st-georges-flag","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-tower-hamlets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115048867625526129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}