BBC Proms tightens Last Night flags restriction
OrchestrasYou can now get excluded from the Last Night for carrying a flag related to ‘protest, hatred and advertising’.
Seems to cover pretty much everything.
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No more EU flags then… political statement, of desire and intention (i.e. part of a campaign).
Union flags ok – as statement of fact, and an actual country.
It is a British if not English tongue-in-cheek eccentric celebration of a tradition long gone. Guy Fawkes another one! One only has to think of dear Andrew Davies to understand it all and someone who understood the culture. Proms in the UK parks mercifully gone, blacking put Scotland as the English sang Jerusalem! EU and all these other flags only protesting and demonstrating, and trying to make it so inclusive just includes no one. Time it went back to being British if not English, and just get on with it.
Davis, not Davies!
Sorry to rain on your fading parade:
The UK is still a member of the Council of Europe. Statement of fact.
Google the flag: it’ll make your day!
Nor a country though, is it? Try again…
It is possible to support European culture and ideals, without taking an attitude towards political union. That said, who needs a flag at a concert?
Very Sensible
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What else is the Union Jack other than a flag that shows “political support”?
Perhaps you are not old enough to remember whan it was deployed ironically. You could buy carrier bags designed as gthe Union Jack. For a short time, in the early 70s, I lived in a house whose front door was painted as the Union Jack. No-one could have mistaken its student occupiers as gung-ho nationalists.
How are either of those examples of irony?
Much of that was a political and economic campaign to promote Britain as a source of products to purchase, as against foreign imports. Sadly we now have almost no surviving major production industries and almost all of our consumable goods are imported to profit the Chinese economy.
You know there is going to be one idiot with a “Trump 2024” flag
All flags should be banned. They have no place in a concert
Seems fair enough.
Now please eject the people who shout the moment the last note is played.