UK and St George’s flags should never be used to ‘intimidate and terrify’, says senior Lib Dem | Liberal Democrats

People who use the Union Jack or St George’s Cross as an aggressive form of nationalism do not like their country, a senior liberal democrat said that he returned to a hard wave of right activism based on flags.

In a strong conversation about a rally that opened the party’s annual conference in Bournemouth, Tim Farron, a former leader who speaks for the party in the environment and rural works, said that national flags should never be “accustomed to frightening.”

Farron argued that those who kidnapped flags to try to insist on a narrow definition of British or patriotism, or those who use emblems to öy scare and scare people ”, do not really like their countries.

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Farron argued that he was a “proud patriot, but he is not nationalist,“ And you can easily say the difference. You see that patriots love their country. Nationalists hate their neighbors. I love my country. ”

A week ago, many protesters poured themselves into British or British flags and lamp poles hanging flags on the streets or spraying a red cross on the streets of people who spoke after a mass right rally, said Farron, such symbols should never be excluded, he said.

“Our flag does not belong to liberals or conservatives, reforms or labor. It does not belong to a belief or a race. It belongs to a person, the British. We will not allow our flag to be used to scare. We will not allow our flag to be owned by the minority.”

“So my message to the nationalists is this: I’m afraid you don’t really like your country.

“ – as it seems – if you hate everything about it and if you claim commitment to a Britain of a fantasy that does not exist, you cannot love your country.

“So let us take back our flags for those who will reunite and rebuild. Let us be proud of our flag and be proud of our country. The British flag and the flags of our four nations are ours.

Lib DEMS was stronger than workers or conservatives in criticizing the rally of last week, party leader Ed Davey used a video address to say that “violence is coming” and “either war or death” after condemning Elon Musk.

Farron, the best way to show love to a country, said, “It contains sacrifice and service with a society -based approach to politics.

This is not only the antidote of nationalism, but the opposite. Less speech, more action. We love our country and our people, but maybe more… Contrary to the nationalists, we also love our country and its people. ”