It’s just the flag of your country – no need for alarm

Hounslow council seem interesting. They are refusing to fly the St. George’s flag over their civic centre on St. George’s day (23rd April) and are refusing to publish related articles and encourage the organisation of events in local schools. It’s hard to work out quite why but it seems to have something to do with not wanting to upset the locals, 30% of them apparently not being English. I wonder if anyone on the council has actually bothered to find out how the locals actually feel about it?

Imagine living in a foreign country. Would you be against the council of the town you live in flying their national flag and organising other related events on their national day? No of course you wouldn’t. Would you even suggest that some of your fellow settlers might be offended? Of course not. So what exactly is the council’s problem?

Also on The CEP blog.