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HOW TO START A CULTURE WAR?

Surely every true-born Englishman has by now downed a pint of Coronation ale, got the ladder out of the shed, and using British-made cable ties, tethered a flag to a lamp post in their street. Or is the whole thing a hoax, a GBeebies fever dream?

There are far fewer flags per square mile than even during a lesser football tournament, those that are out seem pretty localised and nothing compared to the spontaneous display of Ukrainian flags at the outset of war. None of this has stopped the entire billionaire funded pundit class (Wootton, Goodwin, Oakeshott, GB News...) stepping up and declaring that the English lion has finally roared.

Astroturfing is the art of creating “grassroots” movements from the top, and this flagshagging exercise is such a plastic lawn that it comes with its own set of garden furniture. The main Facebook group has only got 3.7k members! The few photos on it show a max of three flags each.

KERB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

As an action design, you have to hand it to them. Simple, easily achieved with materials ready to hand, pretty much legal, and guaranteed to generate outrage as a #TwoTierCouncilWorker inevitably takes the rag down to comply with woke Highways Act 1980. But…there’s been hardly any take-up.

The boomer right do love their AI slop, and the viral circulation of wrong-at-first-sight images generated by robo patriots, padded out with the odd real-life photo, really only serves to illustrate that this is absolutely not a mass movement. How many people in the country own a St George’s Cross? How many have actually put one up?

The Oxbridge set who run the liberal media absolutely loathe the working class. Of course, they're prepped to think we’re all tattooed apes consumed with primitive hatred. So rather than going for a drive and actually checking, they’ve decided to take the right’s word for it. 

The next step of course is to invite the usual tame lefties onto the telly to denounce the whole thing as “racist”. Bingo,  you’ve successfully fired another shot in the culture war.

This too shall pass, the boneheads will move on to the next distraction before this first batch of flags have finished leaching microplastics across our green and pleasant land. Our advice to antifascists in the meantime is Keep Calm and Carry On.

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