I like this, from Brian Bilston:
Some in poetry seem to look down on Brian Bilston's work. I don't, and have a couple of his collections. This is an example of why that is the case.
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Fortunately there is any easy fix for this problem: two extra lines transform a symbol of the far right into a Dead Kennedys tribute 🙂
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Excellent!
I’ve been in England several days, trying to imagine the flags are for a sporting event, trying not to feel as I did when the NF appropriated the Union Jack in the 70s. I realise from a comment some days ago on this blog, that the flags that appeared recently on lampposts where I live in Wales are of similar provenance, as I read that national flags are also being put up in Scotland by the bilious.
Last night driving through Ferguslie Park in Paisley and not really surprised that almost every lamppost with St Andrew’s cross sometimes accompanied by Lion Rampant
The place used to have the distinction of most deprived area in Europe
There has always been elements of far right in unionist/ orange west of Scotland
The juxtaposition makes no sense.
Of course, putting up these flags ‘makes no sense’. Sadly, the biggots are not taking over the Saltire the way they have sequestrated the flag of St. George…. I have been in Scotland’s central belt for the last couple of weeks — and many communities are flying Saltires, and now Lion Rampants, from lamposts — mostly in areas with high index of poverty. However, they are now also appearing in areas often associated with privilege (e.g. Bridge of Weir).
Of course, I don’t condone any of this nonsense — but it shouldn’t be simply dismissed or pandered to like the labour party are doing. I make ‘sense’ out of this as a reflection of peoples’ frustration at the Single Transferable Party and the failure of the last ~45 years of neoliberalism.
Who is funding / co-ordinating this campaign? Is it known ?
What many Welsh don’t get is that , instead of boosting Plaid or the Libs, they’re turning to a party that would end devolution, and remove the native languages in favour of English. When challenged, Reform voters in Wales dissemble, “he didn’t say that”, or in the case of Anglos in Mid Wales, welcome it as they hate their ranches and second homes polluting by the locals.
You are right.
And Plaid are only just ahead, although it seems to me that they are the answer Wales needs right now.
There is a roundabout near where I live which has an interesting ‘paint job’ history – it is now a slightly off centre noughts and crosses grid, clearly courtesy of two separate pieces of paintwork. The first was drawing in the red cross to make it “patriotic” and the second was the drawing in of the noughts and crosses grid to edit out the “patriotism”. PS I had nothing to do with either part of the painting of this roundabout, I have merely observed the final effect of the two paint jobs.