Are people actually 'outraged' by an England kit? | LBC debate

As both Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak weigh in on a row concerning the colour of the St George's cross on England's new football team kit, James O'Brien speaks to callers to find out if people are genuinely 'furious.'
The cross has received what Nike calls a 'playful update', with its typical colour of red replaced with a combination of red, navy, turquoise and purple.
Sunak says he 'prefers the original' and that the St George's cross should 'not be messed with', while Starmer told The Sun: 'The flag is used by everybody, it is a unifier, it doesn't need to be changed.'
'We just need to be proud of it,' he added. 'So I think they should just reconsider this and change it back.'
00:00 - James gives his take on the new design.
04:37 - Caller Chris - 'The cross should be left alone.'
06:33 - Caller Claire - 'Countries are represented by their flag.'
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[@neilg6675]

Getting some asian children to make them for about 50p then selling them to us for £125 is surely the bigger story

[@user-di1rj2be7w]

You are right. They use the gulable indian people to make them and people like the above think this is ok

[@ninjadudeofficial]

The daily mail doesn't tell you what people think, it tells you what they want you to think.

[@ringosimon1]

And James doesn't?

[@hayleyxyz]

They tell you what to be angry about.

[@hayleyxyz]

​@@ringosimon1 What has JOB told you to think that you take objection to?

[@BeBe-vh4ry]

How is it you're impervious to the mails apparent omnipotent power of persuasion? How is they can brainwash millions but not you?

[@ebillyboi]

It's obvious you don't have the ability to think

[@liamholt9951]

Its about changing our national flag to pander to the woke. It resembles the rainbow flag any body with any common sense can see that. No corporation should have the right to change the flag to suit thier own agenda. And as for the blue union flag, it was to celebrate the olympics with a colour that is on the union flag. What are we celebrating with this james?

[@heytigers3104]

Exactly

[@liamholt9951]

@@UnjustVerdict Changing the colours to suit the woke. Changing the flag suits the lefties as they see the cross of st george as a symbol of the far right, which is total BS. And you must be able to see the how this looks similar to the lgbt flag. Nike must have known this would cause outrage. Flags should not be altered to pander to minority.

[@atverde]

Breaking news...it's not the actual flag. The England kit designers have with playing around with the St. Georges's Cross continually for about 25 years

[@EpicAelflaed]

What do you mean?

[@EpicAelflaed]

@@deeingalaplike to me it looks like the rainbow - look at the England site for these shirts. It has shirts for the women and children - the ones for the men’s is under ‘adult shirt’ no mention of it being a man’s shirt 😉 Then on the women’s section, it has a female wearing a shirt under ‘ women’s shirt’ and the other picture at the side of it saying ‘men’s shirt’ and that too is a woman 😂 Clearly something going on - but hey we’re all considered conspiracy theorist these days

[@EpicAelflaed]

@@deeingalaplike we’re all having a conversation about it and everyone has an opinion. I’m not disagreeing with you as your point is a reasonable one. It does look totally different is more to my point and the ‘away shirt’ pattern looks nothing like anything connected to England. It’s just an observation and I don’t understand why. We don’t want up make something out of it though I don’t see any other nation that’s had their flag changed. Or am I wrong?

[@davidknight2104]

But never used to push political messaging as its been used for here

[@atverde]

@@davidknight2104 tell us more about the hidden political messaging then.

[@bigdaveo397]

The real outrage is Nike charging £125 for a football shirt made by £1 an hour workers in Thailand. How does the FA even allow that to be?

[@keithpanton7486]

I assume they're getting a cut, or a one off bribe. FA does everything to increase money, not out of any morals or reason.

[@matthewm5074]

Very true

[@gavinsmith9564]

Just wait till they find out that St George is foreign !!!

[@PassiveAgressive319]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@reidycruise]

So ?

[@reidycruise]

They I like that 🙂👌

[@joemerican5781]

Yes yes Gavin, well done. We all know he was from Turkey. Now tell us something we don’t already know. How about, that Georgia the country is named after him and has his cross as their national flag? Knew that already? There never was a 🐉? Yer don’t say! Just to be clear, I am an ardent Remainer, who is proud to be English - I’m mixed race and a product of the former empire, and I am pretty angry that some Yanks have messed with my national emblem and the FA bought it. So, who’s going after the to55ers at the FA for signing this aberration off?

[@user-xr7dr1mp3s]

@@joemerican5781 where st George was born has nothing to.do.with the flag

[@sanchezz4387]

I'm furious about the £120 price tag. Couldn't care less about the flag

[@Zobbster]

Me too and I don't even want one!

[@annepoitrineau5650]

and it is made of environmentally terrible polyester.

[@youtubekilledtrustedflaggi9274]

£120 for a shirt?

[@jonathanlemonwrestlingshow9251]

Same 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@Burglar-King]

Couldn’t you? Shame on you.

[@Youdannny]

A prime example of how people can get furious just because the news papers tell them to.

[@jonathanboam5409]

People get outraged about blue passports . People get outraged about vegan pasties . People get outraged about outrage

[@scarterw2]

People get outraged at statues, words, language, perceived priviledge, white people, microaggressions, unconcious bias etc So why not the national flag?

[@kieranharwood7186]

I am outrageously furious at this comment suggesting that people get outraged. Rah, growl etc.

[@alundavies1016]

The press makes these stories up because otherwise they would have to report actual news. Kate Middleton stories have slowed down for a bit, so roll out another non-story.

[@handarokadath1515]

​@@kieranharwood7186I'm outraged at your comment!!

[@hayleyxyz]

​@@scarterw2Oh cool, show me a front page where they are outraged of any of those you listed. But you can't, because the press just takes fringe events and makes it seem like a huge issue to fool gammony people like yourself.

[@MarkBenedettiMoss]

The England flag is actually the Genova flag of San Giorgio. The 3 lions are French, inherited after an allegiance. Jingoism is always misplaced. Fight for real principles and beliefs, not this garbage.

[@adrianhowell968]

Yeah the English pinch everything,they even steal our rain water,

[@matspurs1629]

taking from other cultures isnt unique to England

[@jannenreuben7398]

I suspect those "real principles and beliefs" coincide exactly with the ones you have.

[@MrAndy76101]

I think it looks stylish. I must be woke. I'll see myself out.

[@ChrisSmith-mu1we]

Probably why they did it…sell more to the hipsters.😊

[@aguywithaview]

The easily offended flagshaggers will be easily offended. It seems silly. It's a football kit (sportswear) not a military uniform. Does it really matter?

[@I-should-go-outside]

The Olympics is team GB as opposed to England. Isn't it.

[@adrianhowell968]

Correct,mind you in the commonwealth games,the English sang,Land of hope and glory,I wish they would make their minds up.

[@davidatkinson5858]

Yeah apart from the English taxpayer team that funds it mostly on their own👍

[@MrFoffof]

It is. The sentiment is the same though, isn't it?

[@aisey100]

Imagine if people cared this much about something that actually mattered.

[@nervesconcord]

Identity politics being injected into everything that exists does matter to a lot of people, but what matters to a person is entirely subjective. But that is lost on people who actually mean "You should only care about the things I care about" when they say something like "Imagine if people cared this much about something that actually mattered."

[@charliemagri1669]

It's the national flag.

[@johnbeer4963]

Couldn't possibly care less about this distraction from what our national emergency of a government is doing

[@sisulart]

If anybody is getting outraged about such a trivial thing they should consider themselves very lucky they don’t have more important things to worry about.

[@EpicAelflaed]

If you’re not patriotic then I understand that you wouldn’t care if it was yellow with pink dots. That’s your prerogative 👍

[@EpicAelflaed]

@@UnjustVerdict ??

[@johncobourne361]

It's not even a flag ffs. It's a cross on a collar

[@nervesconcord]

Nike themselves have described it as playful update of St George's cross, St George's cross is on our flag... so... Hey, is what you're doing that thing woke folk always accuse everyone else of? Gaslighting isn't it?

[@weswheel4834]

"I'm sorry you weren't furious, I hope you are now" :D

[@heytigers3104]

If you are seeing just a “bit of purple” you are being “a bit blind”, on purpose think. The trans colours are pink and blue (usually a baby pink), but that purple against a dark blue/navy background looks more pink and it’s right next to a medium blue. The POC brown which was not too long ago added to the rainbow flag is also visible (as the darkest stripe on the coral, red, brown vertical section of the cross). St George’s cross is a symbol of England and a symbol of Christianity in England (St George is a Christian saint). What I see is a mockery of English people and a mockery of its Christian heritage by twisting the St George’s Cross and supplanting it with woke (Rainbow) symbolism.

[@4TheThrillUK]

JAMES, JAMES, JAMES, your completely missing the point, what a silly man 😂

[@robertanderson6776]

Horrible man that james so far left it's untrue

[@Starkweather133]

When have England worn the cross on the football shirt?

[@ziploc2000]

Never is when.

[@adrianhowell968]

They wear it on the England darts team shirts.

[@matspurs1629]

some shirts have had the flag in the past

[@ziploc2000]

@@matspurs1629 When? I looked at a web page of past England trips, couldn't see one with a flag.

[@matspurs1629]

@@ziploc2000 2006 england shirt

[@phillydavison]

People get way to riled up about absolutely nothing lol

[@Lezzyboy87]

The gammon being snowflakes again

[@solentforest]

and then trying to get Nike cancelled - most woke people of all!

[@Lezzyboy87]

@solentforest ahh yes a huge corporation only interested in money is now also 'woke' what a meaningless word

[@michaelsimpson4400]

Tell you what, you go to China and tell them they should have a pink flag with a white spot and see how that goes down.

[@solentforest]

@@Lezzyboy87 pretty much

[@jt5765]

I think us gammons learnt that behaviour from the OG snowflakes honestly. We can never do it so well though. Your pronoun brigade is unmatched.

[@thephattones]

If anyone is truly furious then people need to get out more. If it's just media spreading outrage then just another reason to ignore them. If it's just Starmer outrage then he really is desperate to feel relevant and a man for the people.

[@johncraske]

I'm 79. I am furious - trouble is, I can't remember what I'm furious about...

[@craigevans6156]

The English flag is not the Union Flag!

[@adrianhowell968]

Well said,if you can,have a look at the footage from the 66 world cup,union flags everywhere, no george crosses,no national anthem.

[@graybeaton881]

No it's not, but the union isn't as popular as it was in 1960

[@jameshansing5396]

He never said it was 😂😂😂🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[@nizviz]

Can't believe he doesn't understand what he's talking about.

[@nizviz]

They didn't turn the GEORGE CROSS blue for the Olympics. JOB is totally unaware of the difference.

[@rickeyricarl]

If only these same people were as riled about sewer in our waters, foreign money buying our politicians, the NHS underfunding, corruption in politics, the rise of fascism, the homeless, and the cost of living crisis. If only?😢

[@kalvinbaxter6125]

The fact that the Prime Minister AND the leader of the opposition felt the need to chime in and criticise the alternate colours on a shirt AND it made national news, really concerns me. I also feel like if there is any level of outrage, it's likely coming from the same people who complain about people being 'too sensitive'. And the amount of people online who do comment about it seem to love to make their own conclusions about what it means, ignoring what Nike said it represents because apparently that's a front for something.

[@wolfnipplechips]

My Grandad died for that collar! How dare they!

[@user-cz1pk8ru2j]

Underrated joke

[@lordvadertheleftie9703]

​@user-cz1pk8ru2j it's no joke. My nan fought in 2 world wars, was at Waterloo defeating Napoleon and still lives off her rations book to this day. She's disgusted by this blue collar

[@weswheel4834]

@@lordvadertheleftie9703 My wife fought in the Napoleonic wars, and she's furious.

[@wolfnipplechips]

So many patriots.

[@adrianhowell968]

Actually he died for Britain,but I'm sorry to hear what happened to him.

[@nizviz]

The very reason JOB is even talking about this is because he knows it's an utter outrage. You can see it through his furrowed brow.

[@mintywebb]

Strange, none of these snowflakes were aware of the issue in 2012.

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

At the cost of the kit I can see why people are outraged, unless it's available as a rental ? 😁😃

[@sbrown314]

I'm not fussed about the colour of sports shirts. I'm more concerned about the brown colour of our rivers and streams.

[@jmlaw8888]

Do it for the pakistani flag. Go on. Do it. Make it rainbow. Go on lefties I dare you.

[@goodday512]

Not sure how that would work, considering we don't live there.

[@colinmorgan8624]

What’s worse is the only time we ever won a championship we were wearing RED!

[@iann23]

How is that worse? That's the colour of the cross.

[@annepoitrineau5650]

lol

[@bigdaveo397]

Why? England shirts have always been Red?

[@randyschwaggins]

'Championship'? Either you know nothing about football...or you are Murican...or both.

[@adrianhowell968]

Well there is red in the George Cross.

[@jonathanboam5409]

Down with this sort of thing !

[@fasteddie6806]

Careful now!!

[@lordvadertheleftie9703]

​@@fasteddie6806 it was round like your Billy's

[@PaulK-ve1pu]

It should be an ecumenical matter.

[@paulherlihy9290]

I am not English James but that is an insult to England and Englishness. St George is turning in his grave. There was no need for this.

[@aeronnutley364]

That would be his grave in Israel right? Sine he never ever set foot in England, unlike the original Patron Saint of England Saint Edmund.

[@paulherlihy9290]

@@aeronnutley364 and your point is!??

[@ChrisSmith-mu1we]

St George didn’t give a toss about England, he probably never heard of the place!🤦🏻‍♂️

[@aeronnutley364]

@@ChrisSmith-mu1we When he was around England didn't technically exist, we were just a far flung part of the Roman Empire.

[@thesmallerhalf1968]

Can you explain what ‘Englishness’ is exactly. As for George turning in his grave, how so? He was most likely Greek and predates what became known as England by centuries. The red cross may be seen as a national symbol for England, but it is not unique, was borrowed from other states and was originally nothing more than an identifier.

[@seeteasea5497]

All the idiots that are complaining will buy it and if England win the Euros they will talk about the kit being a “classic” in 20 years time

[@TheBadVideoMaker]

If cultural identity is weakened by a small colour change to something then surely there is a problem with the cultural identity that is much bigger than the thing under discussion.

[@jannenreuben7398]

Non sequitur. Ask yourself (and be honest here) do you think Nike would have done the same thing to an African flag or the Palestinian one? Do you think they'd meekly accept it as nothing to worry about?

[@TheBadVideoMaker]

@@jannenreuben7398 I stand by my original comment, and consider that the point you make is nothing more than whataboutism.

[@jannenreuben7398]

@@TheBadVideoMaker It was a rhetorical question but you're not intellectually honest enough to answer it as I expected.

[@zinghao131]

The DFB turned the colours of the German flag upside down for the 1994 kit and nobody blinked an eye! It's called stylising for the sake of a new design. Give me a break, you're all gonna buy it for yourselves and your kids anyway, and then!?

[@paolom.6011]

They didn't change the colours though did they you complete berk?

[@zinghao131]

@@paolom.6011 Sorry, I didn't know I'd trigger a vulnerable adolescent. See a medic. Ciao sweetie!

[@hillbillymal9351]

Would they have changed the french flag to pink green and yellow???

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

I would hope not. Those colours clash.

[@whitespacebug]

Who cares?

[@sandfordmerlin]

child poverty at an all time high, homelessness increasing, public purse still being robbed to pay rich party donors, OUR NHS crumbling, OUR Utilities not fit for purpose, our railways also not fit for purpose, over 2000 food banks, giving out record food parcels daily, our infrastructure now non existent etc... and the gammon froth over the colour of a badge lol 😂 😂

[@daveceaser13]

The UK is a political union of 4 different nations. That's why people didn't care about that. The English care more about thir own flag just like the Scots and Welsh do. Not hard to understand.

[@garethjones9605]

Don't like it? Then don't buy it.....

[@ChrisSmith-mu1we]

Just imagine how many more stick on flags for the white van and full size flags to hang from the kids bedrooms you could buy for £125!

[@adrianhowell968]

Well said Gareth,some of the poorest areas are in the North,but the dads still buy the club shirts every season,the kids are going hungry,but they have a new football shirt,?

[@Batters56]

2:50 just a little cross! Thanks James I really enjoyed that!

[@paulambrus7656]

The subversive, communist, proletarian voice and face of this nation; What can go wrong????????

[@theolddog5129]

I am outraged that more people are not outraged. This is such a serious matter that the PM should deliver a speech outside No. 10 Saturday evening and Mr Gove should introduce a new bill defining what makes a flag an extreme outrage.

[@timstoddard3707]

Don't care what the England kit looks like, all that matters is that I can tell them apart from the other team.

[@dalek604]

Some right-wing tabloids told the gammon to be outraged, and as usual, they took the bait.

[@captainbadger1013]

Remeber this..... M&S has apologised after being accused of posting an Instagram photo of Christmas party hats in the colours of the Palestinian flag on a fire.

[@jeffsuter344]

I am not furious - I am bored with culture war cr@p.

[@captainbadger1013]

It's not our flag though. Im not furious, im confused as to why they've done it.

[@exiledone69]

Nike didn't change it, the FA did.

[@AngelicusImmortus]

It’s a rag on a pole. It’s just nonsense. My Grandad served in WW1. His comment on the Union flag, long before this was: “In the end, all the flag told you was where they were going to send your dead mate’s jacket was made” My other Grandfather who served in Burma said, “We ripped the flag off our uniforms because it was a target for snipers. The only lad I knew who kept it clean was shot dead two days in”

[@jamesdenny5078]

one day its grafiti about chips. the next day its a plough "persons" lunch, and then its a tiny little cross thing on a grossly overpriced shirt. People who brand everyone they dont like as woke desperately looking for things to be upset about.

[@XAVR_]

Anyone who genuinely cares about this is an _absolute melt_

[@pershaankhan1662]

Imagine people being offended by something that actually mattered

[@rgrrbuchanan]

Ahhhm . . . What new England kit? Wouldn't even know it had changed without all this noise let alone 'furious' - would be more furious about paying £120 quid for a footie shirt! ;)

[@barrygentry5364]

Talking about patriotism reminds me that the Tories, despite their claims, are the least patriotic political party in the UK. Any party that causes as much harm and damage to the country and its people, through its actions, is not patriotic.

[@BradleyUK58]

A slow March to a diversity flag?

[@Nigelwheeler-fz3is]

Why does Jimmy Obrian not realise that the England flag is not the union flag.

[@seamusdoherty]

Yes that's what I'm thinking and I'm Irish haha

[@petertattum2338]

If it weren't so funny it'd be serious. Who cares?

[@seamusdoherty]

Yes because in the Olympics its Britain not England they are representing.

[@randomjasmicisrandom]

Did anyone who was furious phone in?

[@pete1942]

They couldn’t, they were too furious to dial the number.

[@TotalAlchemy]

Thankyou james i thought i was going mental seeing the rage everywhere

[@brianferguson7840]

I am so uninterested in this "thing" if it really is a thing. What a waste of words and air ! 🙁🙁🙁

[@vincentdoherty5551]

The fact that it costs £120 should be a cause of actual alarm.

[@Durka-Durka01]

All the bed wetters defending the shirt, what a surprise! 😂

[@whitespacebug]

The people criticising it are the bed wetters

[@Durka-Durka01]

@@whitespacebug stick to women's football, and leave the men's game up to the big boys. 🤫

[@whitespacebug]

@@Durka-Durka01 Lol

[@garywilton246]

I cant understand why people wouldnt be angry at this? Im from northern ireland and to be honest, if the norther noreland flag was messed about with on the national kit, there would be gemuine anger.

[@goodday512]

Why should I be angry? A 3cm flag isn’t going to change my life in any way.

[@thejonnyreece]

"Fred, love to the family" 😂😂😂 Quality reference there James 👏🏻

[@martinB68]

English First, and then British. The away kit is even worse ,Purple with a Pride flag.

[@dwinter666]

More culture war nonsense

[@bettyswallocks6411]

Many people are getting cross about the revised England shirt, which is ironic.

[@TBFI_Botswana]

Of course they are - we’re all flucked.

[@guardian100]

It's not Britain ,it's England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ,where is purple in that flag ,at least the union jack 🇬🇧 actually has blue in it.

[@countgeekula9143]

It's just an attempted distraction from genuinely important things. So silly.

[@Nedchilvs]

Keep flying the Palestinian flag James

[@craigbates4312]

Couldn't care less. They don't speak for me.

[@axelovingguy]

I am not outraged. However, if I was presented with the shirt without any prior knowledge I would not have realised that this was supposed to be the flag of St George. It's not really a major problem to dedicate news time to. At the same time it is the national team shirt representing England and you would expect the flag to be featured somewhere?. I am not the target audience here but the price seems absolutely ridiculous.

[@tajj7]

The England flag is never usually featured prominently on an England football kit, never has been. It isn't iirc on the English Rugby kit or Cricket kits either, the former using a rose and the later using the 3 lions that the English football kit always has, so no I wouldn't really expect the flag to be featured anywhere as it never traditionally has. Also the England flag or the 'St Georges cross', has no blue on it at all, yet blue is commonly featured on the England main kit, even though red is the colour of the cross, so the England football generally has very little to do with that flag so the outrage is not only dumb, it's ignorant of the history of the England football team and it's kits.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

@@tajj7 Yeah I can't remember the England kit having the flag on it very often. I think it sometimes has a cross on the left chest under the three lions? But I definitely associate the Three Lions much more with the England Football team than the cross...

[@mintywebb]

Why? The England shirt very rarely has in the past, it has always used the three lions. Check out the 1966 shirt no Turkish cross anywhere near it.

[@Youdannny]

If you were told it was the England kit or even if you were not and saw the three lions, surely you would make the connection.

[@EpicAelflaed]

The Saint George cross looks like the rainbow ‘unite’ us all together’ flag 😅 And the purple shirt colour is great though down the side has all different colours that have no representation of England - let’s keep it to unite us all ?? 😂 Meanwhile aside from the football, everything has been great 👍 The mass immigration - I mean it’s not even a problem - let them all in for free and change the culture - it’s all okay we don’t mind - we will just be scared of the word ray cist - we shall conform after all - we’re English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Sorry wrong flag 😅

[@chxrl5067]

In all fairness from a design point of view, it's a rebrand. You've changed what makes it recognisable (because all that makes our flag recognisable is the colour), BUT.. It doesn't matter. It's a football shirt.

[@DeniseWilliams-jr5xo]

I think there a far more important things to worry about than the colour of a cross on a football shirt. If the gammon are that bothered they need to take a long hard look at themselves. There are thousands living homeless, there are two major conflicts going on, thousands are starving in Gaza, The NHS are in a perilous state. Yet people are furious over the colour of a cross on a football shirt. Oh for God's sake get real people it's not that important.

[@craigedwards7062]

But football's way more important than any of them😂😂

[@davidatkinson5858]

Who are the gammons?And why do you say they're furious at silly things like football shirt colours?

[@MrRailjunkie]

​@@davidatkinson5858people who get outraged over fake moral panics are Gammon.

[@davidatkinson5858]

@@MrRailjunkie ah ok 👌so like the people who spent the last week in apoplectic faux righteous moral outrage because somebody said something mean about Diane Abbott in a private conversation and she doesn't seem to appreciate shoes being on different feet as much as she used to then! 🤔Thanks for the info👍

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Stop the world! I want to get off. This is insane🥵

[@alisterrae4291]

Strawman after strawman. Cheap show

[@grahamhughes8011]

Cant believe you lot havent mentioned 66!

[@sivikasi]

Rishi Sunak's comments on this made the BBC News website. Nice to know that the King's First Minister and First Lord of the Treasury has solved all the problems in the country so he has the time and brain space to comment on this.

[@smith8840]

An American company (Nike) has no right to change the flag. Does it affect my life? No.

[@skeletonw00t]

The "blue" Olympics kit still had the proper union jack on it though... funny how out of touch these people are.

[@anonitachi7488]

What a spoiled brat, culture. Jebus wept, How ridiculous. I do wonder if people were 'outraged' when Johnson literally walked all over the fleg? 🤔

[@john.highheels.3244]

James O'Brien why am I not surprised by his opinion about this, just like the other one Shelagh Fogarty. They just don't understand do they?!!!

[@KevinSheedy10]

Lots of us don't John. It's a collar.

[@GusMcGuire]

Perhaps - john.highheels bunchanumbers - you could explain for us. What is it that we don't understand?

[@tonka869me]

I thought us young ones were supposed to be the snowflakes?

[@nizviz]

Can't believe he doesn't understand the difference between the Union Flag and the George Cross. The fact he asks for opinions but utterly fails to understand it.

[@powrigan719]

James is not the brightest colour in the rainbow.

[@rustynail1194]

This is going to make me laugh for weeks and weeks. Thanks gammons 😍

[@weswheel4834]

What got me was them getting Sunak to comment on it :D What does it matter what the PM thinks, are they saying that he should pass a law on it? (He can't, he's too busy virtue-signalling about Rwanda).

[@acrodave9287]

Sunak'll just pass a law saying people can't see the colour blue, just red and white. Imagine the fury when they realise that if you mix red and white you get Woke PINK!

[@fricozoid1]

Sunak could pass a law stating that the purple flag is in fact white and red, then its true.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

All this outrage about the England Kit being blue and the said blue mug being blue. What outrages me is the blue background of the LBC logo shown behind this presenter. Not only that, but they make the B blue too. Not to mention the banner cross the lower part of the video. I'm sickened.

[@JohnDoe-kp3tf]

You can’t change a flag! This guys an absolute clown

[@annepoitrineau5650]

Then you need to go on the internet and find out about how various flags were altered.

[@ThePepperford]

​@@annepoitrineau5650go read about ESG and blackrock

[@hazrover]

I'm more irked by the price tag than the tiny cross.

[@JS-vf5gn]

I love the team and I don’t care about the kit design.

[@julieknights1238]

I like it, just as I liked what they did to the Union flag for the 2012 Olympics. It's art.

[@jannenreuben7398]

What would be your view if they did such a playful redesign to the flag of say, Palestine or to the star and crescent of another Islamic country? Would that still be art?

[@thomaseaves7567]

Wer British and proud of it, your not…..PERIOD !!!!

[@metalthrashingmatt]

You couldn't pay me to actually care.. Faux outrage for outrage sake, move along, nothing to see here..