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England afraid to fly its own flag
Modi Kreitman
Published: 04.06.06, 16:31
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31. Un-frickin'-believable
A Guy with Gonads ,   New Orleans, LA USA   (06.04.06)
This is the dead-end of multiculturalism. Assimilate or die. Dear Limey A-holes: find your wedding tackle, ASAP. What a bunch of airy fairy crap this is. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!
32. england afraid to fly flag
heinrich ,   amsterdam/netherland   (06.04.06)
this story is complete bullshit. ever heard of the world cup ? Shirt ban on fan of only 2 By JOHN SCOTT and ANTONELLA LAZZERI BAR staff threatened to throw a TWO-YEAR-OLD out of a pub — for wearing an England football shirt. Tiny Charlie Elliott was sitting in a high-chair when his teacher mum was told he would have to leave unless his top was turned inside out. Furious Elaine, 34, did what she was told as she was with pals and didn’t want to hold up their lunch at Leicester’s Lloyds No 1 pub. But yesterday she raged: “I couldn’t believe my ears. Charlie’s only two — he got upset.” The bar’s owners join an army of killjoys who are banning St George flags and other displays backing England’s World Cup bid. The Sun this week launched its patriotic Up Yours campaign to encourage readers to fly the country’s national flag with pride. Elaine went on: “It was upsetting and humiliating to have to sit there and yank my son’s shirt off. “The manager told me football shirts are banned. But this is a two-year-old. Surely they could have waived the rule for him?” The pub’s owners Wetherspoons last night backed the shirt ban. and IN the run-up to the football World Cup, spoilsport New Prospect bosses have banned workers from flying England flags. A letter has been sent from assistant director of property services John Rule, telling managers to instruct staff that maintenance workers using New Prospect’s fleet must not fly any "unauthorised accessories, namely the flag of St George". The letter goes on to add that while "those amongst us who support the England football team in the forthcoming World Cup wish the team every success," the flags were inappropriate and "can seriously compromise the health and safety of our own employees and members of the public". The draconian line taken by New Prospect – in charge of Salford City Council’s stock of 27,000 council homes – has infuriated workers who simply want to demonstrate their support for the national team. Many say the move is just another example of political correctness and pointless bureaucracy. One New Prospect worker said: "It’s a shame but symptomatic of the excessively politically correct world in which we now live." "However, Salford is increasingly becoming a multi-cultural city and the council has to be sensitive to how residents of other nationalities would react to England flags being displayed." The partner of another New Prospect employee, who is upset at the decision, said: "I just think it’s absolutely disgraceful that you can’t support your own team. It’s another step in a long list of things you can no longer do to show your support for your country. This is just political correctness – what other reason could there be? "Some of the lads have their own team flags inside the vehicles but nothing has been said before, so it must be about England. "They got all the workers in the canteen and threatened to stop the workers from going out there and doing their jobs because they would confiscate any vans still flying the flags. It’s just madness." New Prospect declined to expand on why it had taken the stance. A spokesperson said: "We support the comments made in the letter and do not wish to comment further." Salford City Council employees can display the flags.
33. Take down the star and cresent, that is offensive to me!
(06.04.06)
Muslims had an empire stretching from India to Spain, crushing the local culture and inputing their Arab culture in its place...but WAH! crusades! thats the tragedy....you forget the muslims made it to the gates of vienna and even Paris. Europeans have embraced the Left whole heartedly adn you get morons spouting stuff about how culturally sensitive they are all the while THEIR OWN culture is being destroyed. English went from the people who had it all sussed out to the biggest wankers in the world...Good going...
34. GROW A PAIR!!!!
JMS ,   Proud US of A   (06.04.06)
Do not cave into Dhimmitude and the liberal who believe in it. The brits I've encountered are a proud bunch. Fly the flag high and flip the islamofascist the finger if they complain. Great Britian is a great nation but do not let it turn into The Islamic Republic of Britistan. To the libs there that support banning the flag, !!
35. 24 Ellen: The Only thing Primitive is YOU
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (06.04.06)
36. 29 yakov shani : Great Post
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (06.04.06)
37. 24 Bad News for ELLEN coming up -good news for Israel on the
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (06.04.06)
UK - Boycott: Ellen I told you the other day - don't laugh too early you will be sued. The Legal actions are ready to go into full ACTIONS now Here it comes Ellen - Cut and run !!!!!! In a backlash following this week's vote by the lecturers' union Natfhe to boycott Israeli academia, grant-giving bodies to be "cut funding, support and contact with any academic who advocates a boycott of Israel." "Those who seek to damage and discredit their Israeli colleagues with a blacklist must know that there is a price to pay." Meanwhile Anthony Julius, famous for his representation of Princess Diana and the successful defence of Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving, is acting as solicitor for the boycott's opponents in Britain... Ellen - we will never sit down and let YOU - get away with Racims - or Anti-Semtism - we have started to employ The EU Act 13 - that will be used against YOU and your buddies
38. Londonistan
Michael Canzano ,   LaVerne , California   (06.04.06)
All the men in England should be wearing a dress or a burka as of NOW !
39. How about St George Cross in a Cresent Moon
Sir Cumcise ,   The Bollocks Padocks   (06.04.06)
40. # 19 Mike Atlanta
yakov shani ,   IL   (06.04.06)
Thank you for your kind word. Please be kind enough to point out to me where I have reported fiction in the past as opposed to fact. I regard myself as a very pragmatic person with a considerable distance between myself and fantasy. If I have reported inaccuracies I shall stand corrected and apologize.
41. # 22 Dear Mark
Sir Edward Pritchard ,   UK   (06.04.06)
Thank you. Yes, that great compatriot of yours Mr. Freud has indeed left his mark on humanity, myself included, no one is immune. Thank you once again.
42. beginning of the end of white, Christian England. Europe to
Ben Avraham ,   Tel Aviv   (06.04.06)
43. #24
Jane   (06.04.06)
Have you any idea what a moron you are?
44. Read "Londonistan" by Melanie Phillips...
Myron ,   London   (06.04.06)
..to see what a mess the UK is in.
45. ENGLAND
dave ,   uk   (06.04.06)
"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is ENGLAND." - Sir Winston Churchill
46. Cowards & Lacking In Character
Adina kutnicki ,   US   (06.04.06)
The Brits in power are mostly a spineless bunch of jelly fish. I not only have a big US flag hanging outside my home, but have many symbols that identify my home as being Jewish too. With a menorah on my windowsill and a magen david hanging on my front door,(bought when I was in Jerusalem) I have two symbols that generate much hate - pro American and pro zionist. Ask me if I care what ANYONE thinks about my right to display them?
47. to #30
jason white ,   afula,israel   (06.04.06)
Are you talking about the brave british soldiers who helped hitler.They were the cowardly scum that prevented Jews from reaching palestine during WWII. Perhaps you are talking about the limie officers who lead the jordanian legion against Israel in 1948. That is not to mention all the wars,massacres,torture,ect.practiced by the british army against various indigenous people around the world for hundreds of years.Yeah they are a brave army with a bloody history. Finally we are the natives of our country and the holocaust practices here was by youlimie creeps during the crusades.If you do not like it send your raggedy-ass army here.We just have to worry about where to bury them all.
48. England for the English...Wankers
Ayatrollah ,   Across The Pond   (06.04.06)
49. Ellen-3% population but 10% Convicts.Thats embracement.
Alan ,   SA   (06.04.06)
50. England afraid to fly its own flag
Tomani Ben Lid ,   USA   (06.04.06)
Interesting but I can't find anything on it. Modi Kreitman wouldn't exactly skip a chance to make the leading European nation sound like an army of bumbling cowards. I think we need something far more credible (as in BBC or even Yahoo would work) before I'd believe it.
51. Bye Bye Britain
Shaka   (06.04.06)
I think that all the British should just leave England and go back to where they came from. . . So that the poor oppressed Muslims of the world can come and take their rightful places in British society under Islamic Law. Europe too. All the Europeans should leave and go back to where they came from. Muslims are the rightful owners of Europe and all other people should either leave, convert or become inslaved. . . Because Muslims are the proper masters of the world. So all you Europeans that want to live get out now.
52.  # 43 Jane
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea Hampshire   (06.04.06)
It is very unkind of you to call me a moron, after all I am a professor. The two are obviously conflicting.
53. Embarrassed to be English
Jennifer ,   Tel Aviv   (06.04.06)
Good Lord what is going on over there, it gets more embarrassing to call myself British every day what next are we going to ban fish and chips as it's a symbol of England! And Ellen for Gods sake wake up the only person to blame are the muslims- and multi-cultural my arse.
54. #40 Yakob
Mike ,   Atlanta, USA   (06.04.06)
My pleasure, but I meant a distinction between fact and opinion, not fact and falsehood.
55. the uk is going down the jihad toilet
(06.04.06)
56. Yes this article is totally fictional
DPC ,   England, UK   (06.04.06)
YNET seems to have a bias against the UK and Germany. Maybe we should have just joined Hitler -- it wouldn't seem to have made much difference to you scumbag Yanks, as you seem to blame us for the holocaust anyway -- and we'd be ruling the world with Germany by now! By the way, Americans, can you answer this: WHO LIBERATED BERGEN BELSEN (to name only 1 of many) ? Oh that's right, a bunch of jew-hating coward "limeys" "PROFESSOR" Ellen Prescott - you are a professor of Scatology, so shut your pie hole.You are the type of left-wing mental degenerate that makes right-wing American/Israeli mental degenerates think ALL British are mental degenerates. The University of Portsmouth is number ranked 98 out of 99 universities in the UK for it's History/HIstory of Art......so it's pretty CR@P ( See the UNI league tables here - http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2005/table/0,15905,-5163900,00.html?start=89&index=3&index=3 ) I can only hope that the Scatology department at your university is ranked # 1 out of 99.
57. Writer should be sued. Article is lie.
James ,   UK   (06.04.06)
This man has twisted the article into a total lie. Here is another article in the Sun, which gives the truth. Modi Kreitman will be sued for saying Al Muhajiroun was the reason the flag was ordered down. England expects flags http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006250446,00.html "FIREMEN in Barking, East London — barred from hoisting the flag at their station. The ruling was imposed despite Barking Mosque Secretary Ashfaq Siddique declaring: “We’re not offended — it’s a national flag!” CABBIES in Cheltenham, Gloucs, who have been threatened with having licences revoked. The council claims flags are dangerous since they could fall off — a view now backed by Hampshire Police. "The town hall tyrants hell-bent on spoiling the World Cup party should hang their heads in shame. Most of the country’s Muslims are happy to get behind the flag — although there are some who never will."
58. your absolutely right 51
(06.04.06)
59. Fantasy
English ,   Leicester, England   (06.04.06)
England is a democracy and hence groups like Al-Mohajiroun have the democratic right to request companies to stop waving flags if they want to. Last paragraph of article - toddler thrown out of Leicester - whatever does Kreitman mean ? , which pocket did he pull this story out from ? - amazing the kind of fantasy ynetnews is willing to publish!
60. 52 Ellen You are A Moron - Professors are NOT above it ALL
Gabrielle Goldwater ,   Geneva Switzerland   (06.04.06)
You are a total Joke and in need to seek medical help for your brain deficiency Try the Nuffield hospitals they say they could help You
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