🏴🌈Portsmouth’s Lib-Dem council has decided that St George’s flags on roundabouts are a public safety risk. Can’t have a few patriotic crosses upsetting traffic flow, can we? Yet the same council had no problem painting zebra crossings in Pride colours—because apparently, technicolour rainbows don’t distract drivers the way England’s national flag does. Funny that.
🚦 Safety, or Selective Sensitivity?
The excuse is “public safety.” But let’s be real: this is politics dressed as road maintenance. A few flags fluttering on roundabouts are deemed dangerous, but rainbow-painted tarmac that looks like a Skittles factory meltdown? Totally fine. Either Portsmouth drivers are uniquely allergic to red crosses, or the council’s safety argument is about as sturdy as a Lib-Dem manifesto promise.
It’s the symbolism that matters: the English flag is treated like a dirty secret, while imported culture war iconography is celebrated and taxpayer-funded. To millions, it screams a very clear message: your patriotism is dangerous, but your performative inclusivity is compulsory.
🏴 vs 🌈 – Whose Road Is It Anyway?
This isn’t about liking or disliking Pride. It’s about the double standard. If visibility and distraction are the issue, both the St George’s flag and rainbow crossings should go. If cultural expression is allowed, both should stay. But when one is scrubbed away while the other is painted across the roads, the council isn’t enforcing safety—it’s policing identity.
Portsmouth’s message is loud and clear: celebrate everything, except yourselves.
🔥 Challenges 🔥
Is the English flag being deliberately sidelined while other symbols get VIP treatment? Should councils stop playing politics with paint and stick to filling potholes? 💬
👇 Comment, like, and share—let us know whether you see this as fairness, cowardice, or straight-up anti-English bias.
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