WHAT did our 65 Olympic medallists reach for in Paris after the best moment of their young lives? Their loved ones — and then the Union Jack . And how does Sir Keir Starmer distance himself from the Brit-hating, lefty lunacy of Jeremy Corbyn ? By standing next to the Union Jack at every possible opportunity. That flag is Starmer’s red, white and blue shadow.
For Team GB and Starmer, the flag is a symbol of pride, belonging and unapologetic patriotism. After the Paris Olympics and Labour’s landslide, the Union Jack is hotter, cooler and more totally on trend than it has been since the glory days of Britpop, when Liam Gallagher and Patsy Kensit reclined under a Union Jack on the cover of Vanity Fair. READ MORE ON UNION JACK Yet we still hear voices saying the flag is offensive to foreigners, intrinsically racist, and all those other knackered old left-wing banalities.
In the village of Claxton, Norfolk, the committee that runs the local village hall were given permission by the parish council to fly the Union flag during major holidays . But in a plot twist worthy of an Ealing comedy , some locals objected to flying the flag. What are we meant to be ashamed of? This is the flag that flew when the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron suppressed the Atlantic slave trade, freeing some 150,000 Africans half a century before the US abolished slavery.
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