Birmingham<\/a> and sadly, it seems to be going on and on and on.<\/p>\n“But, at the end of the day, what you can’t walk away from is people showing their Englishness, their patriotism.<\/p>\n
“But of course, a lot of this has been fuelled by media, and as a result we have just have to wait until it fizzles out, if it fizzles out.”<\/p>\n
Coun Bird said the painting incident would be a “police matter”, saying: “I think it is very, very dangerous to stand in the middle of the road, painting onto a roundabout which is a circular area for traffic.<\/p>\n
“Sadly, they are putting their lives in danger and no doubt putting motorists’ lives in danger. At the end of the day, it will be a police matter rather than a council matter.”<\/p>\n
Asked if people should show their patriotism in other ways, such as hanging flags from windows, Coun Bird said: “I think there is a lot of that, I think there is a spin-off from VJ Day where people they had a feeling of a feel-good factor from flags and enjoyment around the country.<\/p>\n
“Let’s be fair, with the current government, we haven’t got much to thank them for. At the end of the day, if it gives them a boost and makes them feel better, why wouldn’t you.<\/p>\n
“There are those that are trying to put it over to the far-right because they hijacked the flag years ago.<\/p>\n
“We have got to get over that and we have got to say, you go around the world and you see people flying their flags.<\/p>\n
“At the end of the day, I think, well I hope, any connotations anything other than patriotism should be quelled.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St George’s flag painted amid wave of displays in England but council leader warned members of the public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373074,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15,10847],"class_list":{"0":"post-373073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-walsall"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115091052018611938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373073","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=373073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Two men were filmed painting a St George’s cross on a mini-roundabout in the Bentley area of Walsall<\/p>\n![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0_JS378740209.jpg\")
Two men were filmed painting a St George’s cross on a mini-roundabout in the Bentley area of Walsall<\/p>\n