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Brommers
Am I being an over-sensitive old cunt? Yes I hear you say.... but read on.
I associate the English flag (St George) with the likes of EDL and every racist wanker I have ever known. Perhaps I shouldn't but I have never seen one on a house or car and thought "What fine, upstanding, reasonable, people they are displaying that flag".
Now the wearing of blacked-out union flags with The Thin Blue Line through the middle on colleagues DPVs/BPVs always felt wrong to me when I was in the job. I am even more uncomfortable now that the American police are using similar Stars and Stripes flags. It has come to mean something more sinister recently, see Blue Lives Matter etc.
Am I wrong to have made a complaint regarding a TBL flag attached to the railings outside a police station I pass every day?