{"id":702114,"date":"2026-01-17T12:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702114\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:47:11","slug":"bristol-city-council-to-gradually-remove-unapproved-flags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/702114\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol City Council to &#8216;gradually&#8217; remove unapproved flags"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Groups responsible for putting up flags told the BBC they are motivated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/czxpel6dwr0o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pride and patriotism<\/a>, but the petition stated they made people &#8220;feel unwelcome in their own neighbourhoods&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During the summer, Bristol council leader Tony Dyer said they would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/800769389275738\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only be taken down if there were safety concerns, external<\/a>, arguing it was time to &#8220;reclaim our flag&#8221; from those who had &#8220;hijacked&#8221; it for racist purposes and &#8220;reclaim the fact the flag represents all of us in England&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But at the City Hall meeting on Friday Williams said: &#8220;The administration has discussed the situation many times and our position is an evolving one. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a dynamic situation. People should not be putting flags on public property, whether it&#8217;s lampposts or railings or roundabouts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also explained the council had considered the safety of staff removing flags, as this had led to conflict in other parts of the country, with police or security staff to potentially flank workers where necessary. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Groups responsible for putting up flags told the BBC they are motivated by pride and patriotism, but the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-702114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115910517973316445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702114","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=702114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}