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Post by dappy on Nov 10, 2023 22:49:56 GMT
Don’t really care either way Dan.
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Post by wapentake on Nov 10, 2023 23:07:25 GMT
not for three years they weren’t Very relevant at 11 am tomorrow. And very relevant to freedoms hard won by those that never made it home that petty pen pushers and rule makers should remember with their cushy jobs and guaranteed pensions. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 11, 2023 7:28:05 GMT
For once I agree with Dippy. It's a non story.
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Post by buccaneer on Nov 11, 2023 9:13:15 GMT
For once I agree with Dippy. It's a non story. I don't. I think over the last decade or so there has been a concerted effort to 'cancel' the Union Jack. I don't know of any other nation on the planet that seemingly despises its own flag so much so that some fringe council decides that taxi drivers are not allowed to fly the flag of their identity on their vehicle. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 11, 2023 9:15:31 GMT
They have a rule of no flags, no emblems, no whatever.
As long as they apply it across the board I don't see a problem.
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Post by buccaneer on Nov 11, 2023 9:18:54 GMT
They have a rule of no flags, no emblems, no whatever. As long as they apply it across the board I don't see a problem. They should apply it across the board except for the nation they are living and working in. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 11, 2023 9:24:45 GMT
They have a rule of no flags, no emblems, no whatever. As long as they apply it across the board I don't see a problem. They should apply it across the board except for the nation they are living and working in. Well I tend to agree but that's not their rule. The story makes it sound like this guy's being singled out but he's really not. It's a non story. |
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Post by buccaneer on Nov 11, 2023 9:28:45 GMT
They should apply it across the board except for the nation they are living and working in. Well I tend to agree but that's not their rule. The story makes it sound like this guy's being singled out but he's really not. It's a non story. Accept, on his last three yearly inspections its never been flagged. (pun intended) |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 11, 2023 9:31:16 GMT
And I've been speeding down the local mad mile for years and never been caught.
Getting away with it doesn't excuse it.
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Post by buccaneer on Nov 11, 2023 9:35:19 GMT
And I've been speeding down the local mad mile for years and never been caught. Getting away with it doesn't excuse it. You don't get inspected by the authorities yearly for your license though. Big difference. |
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Post by The Squeezed Middle on Nov 11, 2023 9:46:51 GMT
No it's not. Just because he got away with it for years doesn't make him exempt.
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Post by Dan Dare on Nov 11, 2023 9:53:56 GMT
I can understand a council not wishing to have mutually antagonistic ethnic groups parading their flags around town on publically-licensed vehicles, but that doesn't explain why displaying the national should also be banned.
As long as people are as apathetic and defeatist about it as dappy then pusillanimous politicians will continue their policy of appeasement of minorities and foreigners and disdain towards the native population. All with the enthusiastic support and encouragement of the dappys of the world of course.
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Post by Red Rackham on Nov 11, 2023 10:01:51 GMT
Military vehicles display front and rear union jack decals wherever they are in the world, including the UK. I wonder how many councils secretly object to such a flagrant display of pride and colonianism, not to mention the hurt and offence caused to oppressed minorities.  |
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Post by dappy on Nov 11, 2023 11:44:27 GMT
I can understand a council not wishing to have mutually antagonistic ethnic groups parading their flags around town on publically-licensed vehicles, but that doesn't explain why displaying the national should also be banned. As long as people are as apathetic and defeatist about it as dappy then pusillanimous politicians will continue their policy of appeasement of minorities and foreigners and disdain towards the native population. All with the enthusiastic support and encouragement of the dappys of the world of course. I wear my acknowledged apathy about taxi licensing regulations in Shropshire as a badge of honour and sanity, Dan. |
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Post by Einhorn on Nov 11, 2023 12:11:13 GMT
While I generally accept the silence rule applied in most libraries, I think most people would agree that it is downright unpatriotic not to allow patrons to belt out choruses of 'God Save the King' at will. Exceptions must always be made for demonstrations of national pride. Reasonableness shouldn't come into it.
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