Flag shaggers

[Derek Hardballs]

I say again, and I'm not wanting to defend the potential actions or motives of these people, but have you actually thought that in ridiculing them you're confirming everything they believe to be true. It just adds to the us vs them mentality that is causing more harm than good across the country.

Surprised you take that view of it Ted. A) it suggests that the people calling them out should stay quiet because of the child like response to highlighting the truth 
B) If someone is adopting this approach because they’re annoyed at people questioning it, I’m not sure they have the capacity to have acted any differently in responding to all the gas lighting anyway
C) What else would the raw sausages do with their time?

All fair points, I don't really know what the answer is but as we've seen with the rise of Populism. The harder you push against those that have been radicalised, the more extreme they become. Just look at how Brexit ended up. 

There's obviously some who are just straight up racist and will take any excuse to hide behind the national flag and throw bricks at brown people, but a lot of them are just dissatisfied with that they're being offered. Again, it's not an easy fix, nor do I have solutions, I just don't think persistently mocking those who've been suckered by the snake oil men is the way to go about bringing them into line with your way of thinking.

I'd say it's the small, often inconsequential things that go a long way with this group, another poster on here might call it optics.

It seems to me like those who voted for Brexit and are now hoisting flags on random lampposts have been the ones holding sway over political discourse for the last five or more years at least. Far from being silenced they have been at the centre of U.K. politics and policy making and still are. The problem is, they will never be satisfied, nothing will be too ‘anti-woke’ for them.  

As for the wider population notably in poorer areas there clearly is an issue with foisting hundreds of people into communities in hotels and HMO’s without any real plan beyond this, particularly as Labour are doing their usual thing of telling people they know best and people aren’t buying it anymore hence the rise Reform Ltd. Sadly the irony of Brexit exasperating the situation seem completely lost on many.