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U.K. Home Secretary declares white males holding English flags are bad people

September 10, 2025 | | Print Article

Newly installed U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has alleged that flying the English flag makes one a bad white person.

“The people you see holding the English flag most of the time down my neck of the woods are the EDL, and they are white, they are male, and they are bad people,” she recently said.

EDL is short for the English Defense League, a formerly prominent anti-Islamist group that argued that Islamist extremism was a direct threat to British culture and values.

Her remarks come amid a new movement, dubbed “Operation Raise the Colours,” that centers on the British people placing the St. George’s Cross and Union Jack flags in public spaces.

Saint George’s Cross is a red cross on a white background, historically associated with Saint George, the patron saint of England, since the 14th century. It forms the basis of the national flag of England and is a component of the Union Jack, the flag of the U.K.

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The Weoley Warriors, a group of Birmingham residents who’ve joined the movement, told the BBC that they’re a “group of proud English men with a common goal to show Birmingham and the rest of the country how proud we are of our history, freedoms, and achievements.”

However, drama popped off earlier this month when the city council announced that the flags were “dangerous” and that they’d be removing them for “safety reasons.”

“People who attach unauthorized items to lampposts could be putting their lives and those of motorists and pedestrians at risk,” a city rep told the BBC.

Critics have pushed back by noting that the council has never had an issue with all the Palestinian flags being flown all across Birmingham.

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“They’ve allowed Palestinian flags to fly there — why on earth are they taking England flags down?” Susan Hall, the head of the conservative faction of the London Assembly, complained to the Daily Mail. “If they accept other flags going up, why can’t they allow British ones?”

It gets worse.

There’s even reportedly a case of an RV that was covered with pro-Hamas graffiti that was allowed to sit outside for months on end without a problem. Yet the moment someone painted a red cross on the RV, it was removed.

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has also expressed outrage over the attacks on the flag.

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“The Cross of St George is part of the Union flag,” he said. “British flags should be allowed to be put up because this is Britain.”

Meanwhile, the leftists at Hope not Hate, a British advocacy group, have alleged that the people putting up the country’s own flag “are hardened and extreme far-right activists.”

Mahmood, the new home secretary, was famously sworn in on the Quran. Also, she has a history of advocating for illegal alien murderers and rapists not to be deported.

During her previous stint in former Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s administration, she even reportedly implemented an early release program to reduce alleged prison overcrowding.

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