Tower Hamlets Councilor speaks out on borough's Palestinian flags - 'It doesn't look like a London!'

[@robroots2492]

No tourists would want to go to London with all those flags littered everywhere like a bad case of measles

[@agnescraig2912]

It is not just the flags but hundreds of people shouting and screaming puts not only tourists off but British people from the North too.

[@markscript5746]

Conclusive proof of the accuracy of Lee Anderson's assessment of the Mayor

[@run2cat4run]

What proof is that?

[@DarrenJohnson-k6g]

​@run2cat4run that he's under the extremist sway. You all are who pray to a certain religion. We know what happens who go against this. So stop defending this idiot

[@agnescraig2912]

Majority of Tower Hamlets is dominated by Islamist and you very well know that. They outnumber all other religious minorities because of their breeding habits. Always 4+ children without any regard to the planet and its finites resources. @@run2cat4run

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

@@run2cat4run Free free pony & trap for Palestine!

[@Anonymous56657]

@@run2cat4runwhy do you even bother asking.

[@ispy3836]

Now get rid of the flag bearers

[@Greybeard2000]

Used to live in tower hamlets its turned into a state from a ISLAMIST country, had to move out.

[@gwenpaxton1802]

A lot like Bradford in West Yorkshire, what an absolute dump - gardens fulll of rubbish, old bikes,, dustbins laid on their sides, old motors, it is disgusting, my daughter lives about 8 miles away and won't go into Bradford to do her shopping, when a few years ago she was able to do.

[@mmmoroi]

Foreign national flags whether Palestinian or Israeli or otherwise must be removed from the council premises and so must EU flag for this matter. Meanwhile police officers enforcing removal of Union Jack must be sacked.

[@BVking509]

Tower Hamlets is not English, its an extremist training borough

[@stevehowell231]

At least Shamima Begum won't be the next mayor.

[@BVking509]

@@stevehowell231 You never know, but only because she's not male. That whole place is a foreign country

[@JHU90]

@@stevehowell231yet! 🙄

[@anthonycastallano9075]

​@@BVking509yea its always been that way! Disgusting

[@johnminshell6532]

It's totally Corrupt , Vote Rigging is Rife

[@jimpim6454]

Flying foreign countries flags on your own soil is questionable AF to begin with. What other country would stoop to replacing their own flag with someone else's. I mean come on !!

[@darrents44]

Good, if i can't even hang, wear or carry a British flag. Then ban all flags.

[@JustAskingForAFriendOfAFriend]

All foreign flags. Keep our flags up please

[@suzy7726]

I wear a bag with a British flag on with pride 😊

[@ivortoad]

It's lawful to fly an English or any UK flag including the Union Flag. You only require planning permission for certain flagpoles. Any other advertising including foreign flags need planning permission.

[@run2cat4run]

Lol who was stopping you?

[@patrickkirwan3353]

Flagophobic eh?

[@suzy7726]

Glad to say no Palestine flags where i live

[@rosemarycharles7164]

Nor where I live either praise the Lord

[@li4191]

What about Ukrainian.Did they still there

[@rosemarycharles7164]

@li4191 sorry I don't see a connection

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

@@rosemarycharles7164 You're lucky because I'd rather see flags that say pony & trap for Palestine!

[@martinspeer262]

​@@rosemarycharles7164that's the flag that I despise and no, I'm not pro Ukraine and never was

[@stevenwillis3044]

Good. Get the bloody things down. This is England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[@gavinlevy1693]

I thought this was England not Gaza. Are we still allot to fly the Union Jack?

[@CrabFiles]

They are still ethnically cleansing the UK...

[@JH-ck1nr]

Try to stop us.

[@LS-wg1vp]

​@@JH-ck1nr not trying..You stop

[@MC-gp1zg]

This is Britain not Palestine. I wonder how long a British flag would be allowed to be flown in Palestine?

[@Zebra66]

It was a few decades I believe. Not that it matters.

[@Jezza_One]

​@@Zebra66Only because the empire backed it up with force.

[@brycecombs2868]

@@Zebra66 Spoils of war, thanks to the Ottomans.🤦

[@celticbreeze760]

Free us all from Palestine !!

[@patricklee6206]

Never mind how long the Union Flag being allowed to be flown in Palestine.The real problem is how long it would be allowed to be flown in many areas in this country in particular in many boroughs of London.

[@LindaRolph-e6g]

They should never have been allowed, it's a disgrace that they were

[@JustGratefull]

Unfortunately I live in tower hamlets and I want to move out so bad, it doesn’t feel like England where I live it’s so disheartening 💔

[@stevehowell231]

Move to the south coast. It's a real eye openor. I just moved after 33 years in Benga Green.

[@agnescraig2912]

It is a deliberate attempt to flush out the British or non-Muslim whites. Sadly they have won in Birmingham Rochdale and many other Northern boroughs. Politicians talk of integration and diversity but people defend it by claiming that they feel driven by a sense of religion or national ID to live beside their own. It is nothing more than to gain citizenship through the back door.

[@Lee-q7r3y]

The only flags that should be flown are..🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ....... vote Reform uk 🇬🇧

[@davidgalea6113]

Northern Ireland?

[@Lee-q7r3y]

@@davidgalea6113 couldn't find it in the flag section.....but yes of course NI

[@JHU90]

@@davidgalea6113Northern Ireland is part of the UK and proudly flies the Union Jack!

[@JHU90]

@@Lee-q7r3ythere isn’t a specific flag for Northern Ireland. It’s part of the United Kingdom so has the Union Jack

[@Lee-q7r3y]

@@JHU90 I thought it was a red cross, like st goerge flag, with red hand of ulster in middle under a crown!?!?....

[@robertcreighton4635]

Disgraceful

[@angelafensom2941]

We dont live in Gaza we live in London and this is the very mayor who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for dishonesty , he was banned from public office and now has been voted into a position of power again by the residents of tower hamlets, and that says it all he should have been deported

[@marquonuk]

Imagine British people going to another country and putting up a large number of Union or England flags in a public place there without obtaining permission. Aside from the fact that I don't think many Brits would do that anyway, as we're too polite, I'm certain the authorities of that foreign country - even a moderate country - would as a minimum response quickly have them removed and probably fine the people for illegally raising another nation's flags in a public place. Why has the UK become so wishy washy towards itself this century, and when and how did that happen?

[@barneymagee3285]

@rogerdoger3347 would you have the same opinion on England…

[@Ben-xe8ps]

If England had been under foreign occupation for 75 years and the occupying power were treating us badly, I would hope that the authorities of that foreign country would be sympathetic.

[@generaldreedle2801]

London looks more like Bradford every year.

[@stewartshackleton7825]

Ah! The City of Culture.

[@Ymt15678]

Which area in Bradford. I live in iikley no problem 😌

[@LS-wg1vp]

​@@Ymt15678 are you humus😂

[@Ymt15678]

@@LS-wg1vp no I am pitta.

[@ScratchySlide]

​@@Ymt15678Where's iikley?

[@christine-r1j]

my neighbour who is ex army had a union jack in his window, and because an immigrant said he did not like it, the council made him take it down his own flag in his own country, it stinks that he could not have his own flag up

[@kellybelle7244]

I had the same with my housing association. I was told to take my flag down as the neighbour had complained. It was inside my window interfering with no one. I asked if they were told to take theirs down and got told no as it hadn’t upset anyone. So I made a complaint about theirs and refused to take mine down. This was before Covid lockdowns, my flag still hangs proudly and I’ve not heard anything else from them 😊. I say just stand your ground as you’re doing nothing wrong.

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

@@kellybelle7244 Well done!

[@londoncalling1757]

The flag means everything to me .. Good on you for defending it ..

[@jimbo-yv5jh]

Legal action forced them to take the terrorist flags down, what a surprise that citizen Khan tried to cover it up.

[@Justlooking0018]

I drove through Tower Hamlets. I thought we had been occupied. Well the government has been

[@kellybelle7244]

Yes it’s very unpleasant. I picked my teenagers up from a gig there very recently which they had got the train to. I felt awful that I’d let them make there own way there. It didn’t tell me it’s not an English area when I looked the venue up.

[@ritag93]

Khan should be held accountable for Islamists for violence and not facing arrests!!

[@roywallbank8065]

They should never have been allowed up. This is the UK not an islamic country ...Yet !

[@grahammitchell8524]

I've worked in the third world and I can tell you without fear of contradiction much of London resembles the filthy slums I saw there !

[@EmpiricalMind]

'It doesn't look like a London!' that's becuase the English are a minority, it's the people that make a country, if you swap the English for other ethnic groups from around the world it's no suprise London or any town and city changes beyond recognition, if you want to see London as it should be, you'll have to watch old videos on YT

[@tomtative]

Well it just isn't true is it

[@JustAskingForAFriendOfAFriend]

As a jew I wouldn't like to see an Israeli flag in london for months either, this is not Palestine nor Israel

[@MrKarlyboy]

agreed but at least on the small and limited Israel related protests, they had Union Jack Flags mixed with Israeli. On the Palestinian hate marches, not a single Union Jack flag. Analyze all the marches, not one single Union Jack. That speaks volumes and people need to pay attention

[@moazzamhussain8128]

Mate no one wonts ro hang your flags that's the problem.

[@marygannon7137]

​@@moazzamhussain8128they don't mind dossing in our country tho

[@edda682]

I do, God Bless Israel and its beautiful and highly intelligent people.@@moazzamhussain8128

[@edda682]

Dossing Muslims who won't work and pay tax but want everything.@@marygannon7137

[@robertkirk4387]

Didn't want to de-stabilise my arse they were scared

[@hadror13]

They were complicit. There was the largest flag I've ever seen in my life Palestinian or no flying high in front of the newly rebuilt Council house in Whitechapel. Absolutely disgraceful

[@ukman9797]

The only flags to be flown in the UK should be the union jack and those of England, Scotland, Wales and northern Ireland. Not all people agree with the Palestinian situation.

[@maryduffy2036]

Having thousands of people in your country, and many more still arriving on a daily basis, who actually hate everything British, what do you expect ? It's called reaping the consequences. It shouldn't come as a shock

[@matthewgubbins8515]

How long have people being saying this. When the capital of the country is 37%white and less than 30%ish native British this stuff happens. I'm not asking for a ethno state but we need too get back too the 90s pre Blair style immigration where it was never higher than 10 of thousands apart from the odd time and need time too integrate

[@agnescraig2912]

Yes one of my close family members did exactly that during Blair's govt. and my repeated calls to the Home Office were ignored. But today we have legal migration also out of control. 160k Indians on student tourist skilled unskilled family visas alone followed by Nigerians, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Asian countries. My Malaysian friend told me that many Malaysians of Indian and Chinese origins come on student visas and never return.

[@nickworley1000]

You can raise any flag as long as its not an English one

[@tappym9141]

I just want my country back.

[@wayneburrows9202]

All English should get English flags and show them with pride 😊

[@suetarr9349]

I’ve had our union flag 🇬🇧 flying for a few yrs now. I then fly our St George flag for St George’s day and the Northern Irish flag on 12th July . 😊😊

[@ritag93]

Kick khan out! There is a big conflict of interest!!

[@cyberleaderandy1]

Absolutely right of the council to finally remove these signs of hate. Shameful they stayed so long.

[@Thereishope664]

Just think of the thousands of Londoners who died during WW2 to see it now lost to these extremists.

[@stevehowell231]

What about the guy arrested for complaining about the flags! The BBC radio called Lutfur Rahman 'the Mayor. Not the 'disgraced mayor'. Bring back Eric Pickles!

[@blondebrandy]

Where do they get these flags from? who pays for them?. Are they flown in or are they made in the UK and if so by whom? Just asking for a friend.....

[@hadror13]

Pan Islamist movements and certain countries. Qatar, Turkiye and Iran come to mind

[@Dazuk2023]

It's littering and should be cleaned up. I expect my Capital City to represent this nation not the world.

[@acqueenarkpyanne721]

Just damn remove the flags..only the UK flag is allowed

[@GaryMartin-s1v]

Lee Anderson was totally right about Khan and his position of boss on islam

[@Greg-q2r]

No such thing as Islamophobia.

[@TheReverendJones-lv5bz]

It’s not irrational to have a phobia of an ideology

[@agnescraig2912]

A phobia is the fear of a particular religious ideology which expects its women to wear the hijab or the ugly niqab and have arranged marriages in order to get British citizenship. No one is allowed under the pain of death to challenge Islam and yes the fear is justified.

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

It's in the BS dictionary!

[@MrDenzal27]

Stop the islamafaction of the UK.

[@Gary-l2r8x]

Not before time they should never have been there in the first place

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Nothing but the union jack, the appropriate (secondary) country (England, Scotland, Wales) flag and the (tertiary flag) City, Council, etc. flag should be flown on public buildings, lamp posts, public-owned flag poles etc.. I do not think that stickers or placards should be placed on ANY public building, lamp-post, flagpole etc.. by individuals or groups!

[@clairryanonline]

Sick of it.

[@kevfox6746]

I put a small 🇬🇧flag in my window and some Palestinian foreign nationals egg my window I find that totally disrespectful so why should I respect their flag if they can't respect mine I had to take my 🇬🇧flag down so my window didn't get smashed

[@tomtative]

Palestinian foregin nationals? How do you know?

[@chrisbamborough222]

London the lost City 😢

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

It's the multi culti diversity toilet of England sadly!

[@carolphillips4624]

About time someone woke up

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Yet a poster of a baby taken hostage is taken down by the police…

[@johnminshell6532]

Tower Hamlets "is controlled by Islam "

[@SarahCook-we5kk]

😂😂😂 oh really well sorry I'm English and I would rather have the islamic running it coz the English clearly doesn't give a shit about their country

[@hadror13]

They're literally on every 2nd lamppost! Imagine the ££ and energy spent on this bollocks. And for what???

[@EagletheLionwarrior]

Where is the LONDON DIGNITY? Are LONDON no HAVE FLAG? Are LONDON is NOT COUNTRY? Are LONDON NO HAVE LAW?? OMG...

[@tomtative]

I would've guessed Gollum voted reform.

[@Theresaisabiologicalwoman]

Absolutely disgraceful

[@mmins274]

Londonstan

[@agnescraig2912]

Would like to know why these people from Bangladesh chose to seek political and economic asylum in the UK? Why didn't they choose to go to Palestine. Recently the student visas scam was highlighted by the Home Office. Students from Bangladesh using the visa and on arrival seeking political asylum. Begum is one fighting to get back here.

[@gdhukLONDON]

Get a move on as there are loads still up everywhere still

[@hadror13]

Yep they've been taking their time for nearly 6 months. I'm glad that people are not ambivalent and are taking action

[@kevinralph5305]

'It doesn’t look like London'! It isn't London

[@honeybunch6473]

Could we remind that Sadiq Khan that he does NOT only represent Palestinian supporters in London and should not abuse his position for his own causes!!!! Lee Anderson was not far off. As a Londoner I would be petrified (judging from aggression of marchers) to hang an Israeli flag in support of Israeli victims. Our city has indeed been high-jacked 🤬

[@rosemarycharles7164]

What a mare he is timexhe was sacked

[@harryrobertson3746]

The no-go area stuff has been going on for years. I worked at Tower Hamlets College and knew of various cases where white residents were physically prevented from going into certain squares or streets. (N.B., I stopped working there over 20 YEARS ago.

[@ianwarnes6197]

The Mayor of London is not a Brit in his heart and i don't know why people expect him to act on behalf of Brits ..

[@sandrascott7351]

F--- Gazza

[@lynnemaclean7201]

Since when did local councils have a foreign policy? Local councils, local policies!

[@johnredman2065]

A guy with stickers gets 2 years 😐

[@daviddash666]

It's an absolute disgrace 🤬 They should have been removed immediately. Khan is a disgrace.

[@barbaraaimson2100]

Move khan out or move the capital

[@vjamesg100]

These flags should never have been allowed.

[@Danny-hp9fx]

People outside of London should know that tower hamlets hasn’t been a part of Britain since the last century

[@Johnarry]

Left tower hamletstan 25 year's ago, shite hole now.

[@anthonycastallano9075]

So they should take them down" this is not Palestine" its england...

[@dayanpillai5124]

I never new how subservient our police are till Tommy was refused running for charity through Tower Hamlets. 😢

[@MyMccarron]

They did the same in Birmingham too

[@charlieyerrell9146]

Ask the black people in tower hamlets how they feel about foreign flags being put up in the Borough. The black indigenous people of the Borough are British NOT Palestinian.

[@tedd2328]

These poor people are homeless and countryless!! Must be horrible to feel so weak having a religion that’s so evil

[@jimmyghost1221]

Well I hope the same is applied to any other foreign flag flown including the UN/EU rainbow rag! One simple rule, one county, one flag.

[@ivortoad]

It would have been useful for GB News to clarify the law on flying flags. Any of the UK flags are absolutely permitted although certain types of flagpole, if used, need permission for obvious reasons; such as their safety and integrity etc. 🇬🇧 Anything else is advertising and needs permission including alien flags.

[@Fre667Roger-Ring]

How about putting our flags up 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿oh that wouldn’t be allowed because that would be against the lefty law!🤔

[@bigscotty3522]

Community cohesion??????

[@leec4027]

Turd world

[@Mac398td]

When did Sad-iq Khan ever take notice of the Law or the citizens.

[@hadror13]

These flags are an eyesore. And intimidating by design

[@MichaelKng-fk5jk]

London is out of touch with the UK public, London needs sorted, quite seriously!

[@moazzamhussain8128]

We are brition we love our flags like this summer the country will be full of flags like full of flags every house evry pub every car every lam post. Do you guys wont us to have british values or not make your mineds up for f sake. Get these kids of the news for f sake

[@paulhillman400]

And that's your edited version !!!!!.

[@edthompson9337]

Angry Muzza alert, another one for MI5 to keep an eye on!😂

[@moazzamhussain8128]

@edthompson9337 u guys do need some role models probelly vetting me right now

[@James28R]

we love OUR flags, not those of a terrorist controlled state, thank you very much 'hussain' lol

[@richardcummins5465]

Virtually everywhere in Britain with a Labour Council has turned into a third world cesspit!

[@Arthur-Gieves]

Tower hamlets is a lost cause they may as well have it.

[@JohnCates-tn1gq]

What.do we expect from that borough .

[@chrisspencer6502]

Can the display isreali flags?!

[@hadror13]

In London? If you're police escorted, brave or have a deathwish

[@anthonysokolsky6210]

Free free plasticine!

[@karldunne5595]

Yeah... that will hurt the tourist industry for sure,🙄

[@colinnewmarch1106]

Feel free to fly Palestine flag elsewhere ,such as Palestine ,no thought so

[@iankennedy1441]

LET THE COUNCIL PUT UP ISREALI FLAGS AND SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN

[@garygallagher3428]

Politics is local. Ignore the Westminster clowns 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@YVONNEHEUINGS]

Agree its not so called Palestine its meant to be England. ❤from Scotland.

[@markLawley-g8u]

One rule for one lot and one rule for the rest of us.

[@tubby735]

The only flag allowed should be the Union Jack !

[@patricia49509]

Hate these flags should be banned

[@deangriffith6862]

There are no go areas in London as well, tower hamlet you’re not alone, who’s the executive mayor in tower hamlet, sounds very fishy to me, it sounds like there’s corruption within the ranks.

[@SeniorScooby]

These flags were WAY over the top, in your face…appeasement again NOT community cohesion. They offend me, as a non Jewish person living 60 miles away! I suppose the mayor’s name is John smith. 😂

[@kennethchesworth5024]

The only flags that should be on show are British flags or wales flags or Scottish flags if we are not careful our rights will vanish it’s time to stand up and say enough we will not take this from the people who we welcomed to our country and all they do is call us and our religion our complete way of life let’s get it right we are not at all racist we took them in not our fault that they can’t accept our ways but we should not have to adjust to their ways of life this is our country if we went to their country then we would have to adopt their ways but they are in our country be proud of our freedom and the country if you don’t like us no one is keeping you here you can leave