"Why Do We Feel Ashamed of Our National Flag? Here’s a Solution for Those Who Disagree!"

A WOMAN won £12,000 in compensation from her employer this week after a tribunal ruled she had been “triggered” when her boss told her to “stop thinking outside the box”.

Apparently, she suffers from “rejection sensitivity”, so now it’s against the law to upset someone by telling them to basically “shut up and get on with your job”.

Last summer, there was a never-ending stream of campaign groups complaining that the sight of our national flags would cause huge distress to manyCredit: Getty The ‘flagging’ movement only began in response to local councils in Birmingham and elsewhere flying Palestinian flags in support of Gaza, which was evidently not divisive at allCredit: AFP

What other sensitivities are now protected in law? Can someone sue because they suffer from “punctuality sensitivity” and dislike being told off for being late?

How long will it be before some other poor “victim” claims they have been wronged because they suffer with “national flag sensitivity” and starts suing everybody for the deep distress they feel at the sight of a Union Jack or, God forbid, the St George’s Cross waving in the wind?

Judging by how things are going in this country, it’s only a matter of time.

After all, when Union and St George’s flags started popping up on high-street lampposts and roundabouts around the country last summer, there was a never-ending stream of campaign groups complaining that the sight of our national flags would cause huge distress to many.

They blasted the group behind as fascists and racists intent on dividing our country and intimidating ethnic-minority Brits and foreigners.

Yet the “flagging” movement only began in response , which was evidently not divisive at all.

So no wonder, as revealed in a Talk radio exclusive this week, that a bunch of anti-patriotic Brits have launched a secret campaign to rip down all the offending flags put up last year.

The flag- hating group call themselves Operation Lower the Colours and, by co-ordinating on , they have created a live map pinpointing the exact locations of the flags, in a bid to remove them one by one.

They point out in their group messages that it’s “funny how it’s mostly poor areas where people are on benefits”.

Have you ever been to another country and felt excluded by seeing their national flag? Of course not

Julia

Is anyone surprised by this? A bunch of snotty-nosed Lefties getting “triggered” by the sight of their own national flag is what we’ve come to expect.

I’m sure they feel very virtuous as they clamber up their ladders in the dead of night to rip down the offending rectangles of cloth.

But why on Earth does the sight of our flag upset them so much? It’s utterly pathetic.

Symbols of country

Our national flags are, by definition, something everyone can and should unite around, as symbols of our country. Yet some see them as emblems of hate, division and shame.

We are the country that gave the world the Industrial Revolution, the railways, the worldwide web and all the most popular sports on the planet.

Our forefathers were scientific pioneers, we exported democracy around the globe and we were the first empire to abolish slavery — while from the English language, to Shakespeare and The Beatles, our contributions to world culture are second to none.

Yet we are told our national flags are jingoistic, divisive and “not inclusive”.

Have you ever been to another country and felt excluded by seeing their national flag? Of course not.

I went to primary school in America for a couple of years, where we saluted the US flag every day and sang the national anthem.

If a headteacher did that in a British school today, they would probably receive a visit from the .

We are told our national flags are jingoistic, divisive and ‘not inclusive’Credit: Alamy

Thanks to the anti-patriots who dominate our politics, media, civil service and universities, we are the only country in the world where citizens are taught to be embarrassed about their national flag.

Of course, the St Andrew’s Cross and the Welsh Dragon are perfectly fine to fly with pride.

It’s just the England flag which distresses the Left, while the Union Jack is only acceptable to be flown at royal jubilees and coronations or the Proms. Otherwise, frankly, it’s a bit suspect.

Our wraps himself in the national flag while we all know he is a Lower the Colours kind of guy at heart.

What’s so ironic is that while the Lower the Colours brigade laugh at anyone who flies the English or Union flags, contemptuously branding them as “flag shaggers”, they gleefully wave or insert into their social media bio any other flag — whether for the , or Pride.

A caller to my Talk show this week said he’d put up dozens of Union flags around his village — under cover of darkness for fear of arrest — and the only complaint came from the local church, who said the flags weren’t “inclusive”.

Imagine, the Church of England, the established church of our land, complaining about our national flag.

After church staff took the flags down, the villager returned to put them back up — and added 140ft of Union flag bunting.

Of course, no one should be forced to fly the flag.

But if you’re triggered simply by the sight of the red, white and blue symbol of our nation fluttering on a lamp post in your local high street, I’m afraid the problem isn’t the flag, it’s you.

Instead of calling a lawyer, or grabbing a ladder to tear them down, why not just live somewhere else under a flag you like?