The Conservative Cave

Birmingham council can't collect bins or fill in potholes, but they can organise cleaning our national flag off of a roundabout within 24 hours of it being painted on.

Traitors.

English St George’s Cross flags placed on lampposts and other public infrastructure as part of the grassroots ‘Operation Raise the Colours’ movement in Tower Hamlets, East London, are being torn down by the municipal government. This campaign, which started on Facebook, has seen British and English flags put up in many British cities and towns, including London, Bradford, Newcastle, Norwich, and Swindon.

Tower Hamlets Council, led by Bangladesh-born Mayor Lutfur Rahman, of the pro-Palestinian Aspire Party, has drawn criticism for moving quickly to remove the English national flag, despite previously allowing Palestinian flags to be flown from public infrastructure in the wake of the October 7, 2023, terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.

Notably, Rahman—formerly of Britain’s governing Labour Party—was ejected from the mayoralty in 2015 for electoral fraud. Still, the Bangladeshi community, which dominates the borough demographically, voted him back into office once his ban from holding elected office expired.

He resisted removing numerous Palestinian flags just last year, citing “community cohesion,” only relenting under threat of legal action by Jewish residents.