Reform UK council removes St George’s flags and bunting over public safety fears
A Council led by the United Kingdom exhibits public security concerns of the Str George’s Cross and the flag of the Union in Durham.
Durham District Council, throughout the district, both drivers and pedestrians to compromise public security, he said he noticed a large number of flags, he said. He said that other screens, such as painted signs, intersections and zebra transitions on the roads, were also noticed.
Residents warned not to hang flags in areas that can prevent visibility for drivers or pedestrians or where they are poorly safe.
In his statement on Friday, the Council said: “While understanding and respects the desire of the community to express national pride, celebration or remembering, it is important to ensure that such expressions do not compromise on public security.
“After a risk assessment yesterday, we had no other choice but to remove a cherry bird along a road in New Brancepeth. The relevant rope was so strong that there was a high -sided vehicle in it, the poles he was attached could be pulled down.”
At first, the Council said that although some flags were transferred by third parties, they would only remove the flags or decorations that pose risk for the public.
“We encourage inhabitants to think safer and more suitable places for flags or other screens that do not include highway infrastructure and do not comply with all appropriate standards and arrangements.”
The decision to remove the flags of the council comes in the midst of St George’s tendency to exhibit crosses and union flags throughout the country.
It is believed to be part of an organized effort, which is an online movement that supports extreme right figures, including Tommy Robinson, an organized effort. The movement was afraid that flags could deepen the division in communities, some of them are afraid that they are behind the exhibitions of an anti -immigration agenda. As a result, the councils are downloading them.
Birmingham Municipal Assembly and Tower Hamlets Council said that they removed the flags to protect the Council infrastructure in line with a policy determinant that determines which flags fly from the council buildings and in which situations they fly.
This week, Portsmouth Guildhall, a 19th century turning turning point, was falsified by the vandals who painted a st George’s cross, which the council calls “sad”.
On Friday, the Portsmouth Municipal Assembly said that it is a legal task to remove symbols painted on the roads, but no process will be taken to remove the flags displayed on the lamp poles or other public spaces unless it pose a danger.
A spokesman said: “Guildhall is a civil and cultural turning point that is of great importance for the city and its inhabitants.
“Harmful, sad, illegal and cost -effective. Even though the picture has been removed, there is still visible damage.”
Again on Friday, Essex police said that they were looking for two men after the cross of St George and that the words “Britain” were painted in an Islamic center the night before. Gavin Callaghan, the Labor leader of the Basildon Council, published photos of Vandalism on X and said the damage was “shame”.
