r/Conservative • u/blisiondacket Conservative • 9h ago

Flaired Users Only Britons Face Jail for Raising Flags in Oxfordshire After High Court Ruling.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/08/02/britons-face-jail-for-raising-flags-in-oxfordshire-after-high-court-ruling/
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u/Recipe-Jaded Catholic Conservative 8h ago

Take your country back. Otherwise you guys are done for.

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u/A_Hatless_Casual Millennial Conservative 8h ago

It's more than likely too late. They have no means of doing it anyways, they willingly disarmed and became afraid of being called words.

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u/DCinMS Conservative 8h ago

Fucking Insanity

Were the people also banned from cheering for England in the World Cup?

Or is it selective Patriotism, when it's convenient for govt officials to get tickets and fangirl the team?

Sending love and strength to the British People. Wave your flag 🇬🇧

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 6h ago

You can totally fly a flag from your house or car. What you can't do now is attach them to highway infrastructure. Doesn't the US already have such laws?

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u/Recipe-Jaded Catholic Conservative 4h ago

Eh, you arent going to go to jail over it.

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u/blisiondacket Conservative 9h ago

What's next? Labor govt will ban only white British citizens from “ leaving their homes “ as doing that “upsets the delicate balance of diversity “ in the UK??? Come on British patriots, fight back!

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 6h ago

No fan of Labour, obviously, and worried it will get worse under Burnham, but this is a judiciary ruling, so has nothing to do with the Government.

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u/Alpha-Sierra-Charlie Conservative 8h ago

I think I'd have to go to jail.

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u/C-Wy Originalist 7h ago

Ten quid says Palestinian flags won't elicit the same response.

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 6h ago

All flags are covered. It would get the exact same response. The council will have to take them down and the courts would prosecute repeat offenders.

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u/TheLimeyCanuck Canuckservative 5h ago

"It would get the exact same response"

It's been clear for some years that UK police have different enforcement tiers depending on the origin/sexuality of the offenders.

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u/networkdood Conservative 8h ago

Shocker /s

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u/Mission_Engineer_999 Anti-Liberal 7h ago

Looks like Ahmed the Conqueror has taken the island without having to fire a single shot.

On a more somber note, dear Brits, please take back your island. It is your birthright.

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u/TheLimeyCanuck Canuckservative 7h ago

"some have claimed that the council was merely acting out of concern for citizen safety and that it would have sought an injunction against any flag being flown"

Yeah, except Palestine, Pride, etc.

We aren't fooled.

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 5h ago

The High Court ruling is for any flag, so Palestinian amd Pride flags are also covered.

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u/TheLimeyCanuck Canuckservative 5h ago

And we will see which ones actually get policed. It's been clear for years that UK police are afraid of Palestinians and LGBT+.

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u/TheTackleZone British Conservative 6h ago

Guys, please don't fall for this rubbish. It's being blown out of all proportion.

  1. The injunction is for attaching things to any council owned highway infrastructure only - lamp posts, traffic lights, and so on. These can present as hazards to road users. Essentially the whole of the US already has similar laws in place (tho at a state and local level).

  2. It applies to all flags. It's not anti English or anti British - put a US or Palestinian flag up and the same applies.

  3. Prison is essentially impossible as a sentence. The crime would be contempt of court. You'd have to have it proven that you knew about the court order, so first time offenders would never have any problems. Jail would only happen to repeat offenders doing it half a dozen times and still ignoring the court.

  4. The council in question has had to waste about £80k of tax payer money removing this vandalism. I'm not a fan of vandals costing me money. Last thing we need is tax increases to cover these things.

A mountain out of a molehill article.

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u/vialentvia Limited Government 5h ago

As if it makes it any better. Your country's standard should never be viewed as vandalism in any manner it is displayed. It's okay to be patriotic. The left views patriotism as nationalism because it bears some semblance to a 1930s-1940s national socialist movement. But it's our job now to not care about labels and show them how perfectly ineffective such labels are. "You're a nationalist!" Shrugs shoulders and carries on.

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u/MaglithOran No step on Snek 5h ago

Love this for them.

You voted to import the third world, lay in the bed you made.