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How long has your avatar been the Italian tricolour and the flag of Sicily? It’s rather unfortunate coincidence calling other people’s ‘obsession’ with flags when your own avatar is of… flags? The amount of people making these arguments will unironically have flag emojis in their social media...

Like the increasing number of Labour MPs on the backbenches or in the Lords? 😂

It’s not just ‘childish politics from the Right’. There are calls from 40 Labour MPs and New Labour randees to suspend the ECHR. Clarke, Blunkett and Straw all voted for the HRA which enshrines the ECHR into UK law. You just don’t want to understand the opposition here. The Tories tried their...

Simple question: did we have human rights before the ECHR was created The answer is yes, we did because of our long tradition of English Common Law. The ECHR started off as a ‘convention’ i.e. not a law that a government needs to follow. No EU nation has specifically codified the ECHR into...

Nice try. The Good Friday Agreement does not specifically require the UK to be part of the ECHR. The nitty gritty details pertain to the Northern Irish assembly legislation. The idea the GFA would fall apart over this is just not credible. Protesting net migration has been the one of the only...

What didn’t really help is that he was continually shifted to LW because EMC was struggling for fitness. When he plays as the main striker, he plays with more freedom because he can roam, create overloads and not be burdened with too much defensive responsibilities. This season will be...

For starters, this is an incorrect and insulting caricature. In the scenario(s) you outlined, it’s the individuals screaming them. They could be holding a ‘welcome refugees’ flag (for arguments sake), but if the actions don’t meet the words… Almost definitely and if you need proof, perhaps...

You contradict yourself here. The ECHR safeguarded human rights in the UK but it was only legally binding post-1998… so it quite literally did not do this. It was English common law all along. The UK, and specifically England, has the longest tradition of human rights and safeguarding civil...

I know the history behind the ECHR. Just because it was necessary back then, doesn’t mean it applies now. Clement Attlee and Churchill supported it. Yet, neither person would support it now with how it is being applied now because it undermines the sovereignty of successive governments. If...

Did we not have human rights before 1998?

This narrative doesn’t make sense when people are paying traffickers thousands of pounds to get to the EU and then the UK. In some cases, people are deliberately destroying their papers so they cannot be identified which is a huge red flag. We’re no longer part of the EU, there’s actually no...

More doublethink. Either flags have a meaning or they don’t. Pick a lane, and run with it. I would question why anyone would find our flag offensive in any way? My base assumption is that if people come here for a better life, their outlook would be positive on our country and its symbols. The...

Well, at the start of Labour’s tenure there was a supposed £20bn black hole and in just over the last year they’ve ’doubled it and given it to the next one’. It’s genuinely hilarious seeing you tell people to ‘get off the internet’ when most ordinary people in the ‘real world’ think Starmer is...

‘It’s a flag ffs’ is quite an ironic comment to make right after saying it can be ‘weaponised’ and used as an intimidating tactic. This is doublethink in action.

Why can’t they? English common law is the basis of the free world. Canada, Australia, NZ do not need to be a part of the ECHR. Australia, by the way, had a similar issue with small boats from Indonesia and provide the blueprint for us to follow. On the Human Rights Act, it enshrines the primacy...

The British flag and identity is one of, if not the most fluid national identities out there. Unlike France and Germany, who trace their lineage back to the ancient ‘Franks’ and Germanic tribes of Germania… Britain as a nation state was created by an Act of Union in 1707 to include the English...

@shmmeee please give the lecture about how everything is actually great and it’s the public who have gaslit themselves into believing things are bad.

The specific example here is the hoisting of Palestinian flags in public places. A straight yes or no will do. Not a mealy mouthed response. Personally, if people want to fly that flag, they can on private property. I disagree with it being flied in public.

There have been Palestinian flags put in public places and have not been taken down. The Union Jack and St George’s cross are the two flags (as well as the other home nation flags) where there shouldn’t be any question of motivations behind displaying the flag. If you think the flag is being...

Agreed. In Birmingham Council, you had the Pakistani flag rose to celebrate Pakistani independence whilst simultaneously taking down the Union Jack and St George’s cross. That’s where this ‘Operation Raise the Flag’ began. Ordinary people find this v odd behaviour from government at all levels.