Plot to Raise Hundreds More Flags on England’s Streets

An army of patriotic campaigners have vowed to continue putting up England and Union Jack flags despite council workers ripping them down.

A drive to cover British towns and cities in national flags is being coordinated by an online movement called Operation Raise the Colours.

Patriotic activists are using a Facebook page to help gather flags together – with members chipping in with offers of transport and equipment, such as ladders.

One user posted: ’60 of the 120 just collected… going to be a busy few evenings.’

A second wrote: ‘I just feel that the time has come to all band together and refuse to be bullied, we are proud of our country and should not be made to feel otherwise.’

It comes as the Prime Minister backed the public’s right to fly St George’s flags after furious locals thwarted a second council’s efforts to remove them from lampposts.

Council workers in Tower Hamlets were met with abuse as they began to tear down England and Union Jack flags which were hung from street lampposts by patriotism campaigners.

Birmingham City Council provoked a major backlash last week by announcing it would begin removing hundreds of similar flags from the city’s streets for ‘safety reasons’.

Critics have pointed out that Palestine flags were left to fly in parts of Birmingham and the east London borough – which both have large Muslim populations – for months without being challenged by authorities.

Operation Raise the Colours has led to communities across the country hanging up flags on their streets, including Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich and the Isle of Wight, in defiance of council bans.

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Sir Keir Starmer’s official spokesman said: The PM has always talked about his pride in being British, his patriotism…patriotism will always be an important thing to him.’

Asked if Sir Keir was supportive of people putting up English flags, his spokesman said: ‘Absolutely. We put up English flags all around Downing Street every time the English football team, women’s and men’s are out, trying to win games for us.’

There were fractious scenes on the streets of Tower Hamlets yesterday (MON) when a small team of council cleaners began to cut down England flags from lampposts.

The authority is led by Lutfur Rahman of the pro-Palestine Aspire Party, and previously refused to remove hundreds of Palestine flags that were hanging from lamp posts and council buildings in the borough so as not to ‘destabilise community cohesion’.

Mr Rahman – who was previously found guilty of electoral fraud – finally ordered them to be removed last year after Jewish locals complained they were intimidating and divisive.

But when the cleaners began to remove the England flags yesterday morning, they found themselves on the receiving end of abuse from passersby.

‘This is a f***ing joke,’ one driver shouted, adding: ‘We’re going put them back up anyway.’

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In Birmingham, there was little sign that the council had made any headway removing the hundreds of Union Jacks and St George’s Flags when the Mail yesterday the neighbourhoods at the centre of the row.

A small group calling themselves the ‘Weoley Warriors’ have hung scores of flags across neighbourhoods in the south of the city including Northfield, including Weoley Castle, Northfield, Selly Oak and Bartley Green.

Describing themselves as a ‘group of proud English men with a common goal to show Birmingham and the rest of the country of how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements’, the Weoley Warriors have so far raised more than £10,000 online to fund their efforts.

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Birmingham City Council said staff had been instructed to remove all attachments from lampposts ahead of an upgrade to energy-efficient LED street lighting.

But opponents claim the removal of the flags only began in earnest when GB and England flags were posted, while Palestine and Pakistani national flags flew untouched in the city for months.

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