Always focusing on fixing the worst problems of society, Reform has been busy wasting its time and our money by taking the time to officially ban flags from being displayed at council premises..
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf had earlier announced that “Reform-controlled English councils will move at speed to resolve that the only flags permitted to be flown on or in its buildings will be the Union Jack and St George’s flag”.
“At speed”, no less.
Unfortunately this annoyed some of the actual local people that their councillors are supposed to represent, so they had to walk it back a bit and add county flags to the allow-list.
All other flags remain forbidden though. My guess is that the main point of this in the minds of many of Reform’s decision-makers is to ban the Pride flag, often flown as a sign on solidarity with LGBTQ+ people. And sure enough, they have been busy removing them.
Liberal Democrat councillor Ellie Hopgood condemned the decision and said it was a “disrespectful, mean-spirited act” ahead of Saturday’s Pride in Armed Forces event in Durham.
However Pride is of course not the only flag in the world. The ban includes the Ukrainian flag, frequently flown as “a gesture of solidarity we see across the whole country” with the beleaguered country currently under illegal attack by Putin’s Russia. Understandably, more normal council folk don’t like this decision, and note their leader’s deep love of that conflict’s aggressors.
A Liberal Democrat spokesman said: ‘We know the only flag most Reform politicians want to fly is the Russian flag and these plastic patriots are proving to be everything that we thought they were.
‘A bunch of Putin apologists who would rather tear down the symbols of brave Ukrainians fighting for freedom than stand with them.’