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Gerard said:
Wonder how much revenue was generated over the last month for FLEG stores flogging their stock. A lot of Loyalist areas are already verging on the ridiculous with FLEGS dangling from virtually every possible vertical structure (often multiple FLEGS on the same lamp post), the FLEG drama has just put it into overdrive.
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Where are these flags? I barely see any? let alone multiple on different lamp posts?
 
Orcish-Horde said:
Speak to your local city councilor and ask him not to vote on politically divisive issues, that alienate half a city and bulk of the surround area. Who is this majority you take of?
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Politically decisive for who? Oh your referring to what a couple of thousand people out of the entire population of Belfast. The majority of the population are non-sectarian and do not care what Loyalists or Nationalists want, they want peace and a nice life. The sooner we are rid the better.

As it happens though I did contact my local Councillor, Anna Lo MLA (Alliance) today by telephone right after I received the email I posted above. Do you know what I told her? I explained that I fully supported her non-sectarian party and wish her and her colleagues all my support. I explained that I thought they should be sure to drive home their vision for a progressive shared future and that they were doing a good job. She was lovely to talk to and I'm sure I bored her but she thanked me for calling.
 
jordyGFC said:
Where are these flags? I barely see any? let alone multiple on different lamp posts?
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Where are they? Well off the top of my head the village on the Donegall road springs to mind (UVF flags and all), Stoneyford, the protestant community on the blacks road, around the Finaghy area has also had a load of flags put up recently as well. Areas of north belfast etc.
 
jordyGFC said:
Where are these flags? I barely see any? let alone multiple on different lamp posts?
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Mate I live in a Blue area of North Belfast, nearly every lamppost on the bus route to the City Centre via the blue area has flags, the bus also passes through a green area, funny thing, no flags. Weird.
 
jordyGFC said:
Why would they fly a flag from a foreign nation? And something that is very sensitive in this area? You clearly dont understand Northern Ireland..
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It's the Island of Ireland, whether it's northern, south, east or west.

Far from a foreign nation.
 
Mitzy said:
Mate I live in a Blue area of North Belfast, nearly every lamppost on the bus route to the City Centre via the blue area has flags, the bus also passes through a green area, funny thing, no flags. Weird.
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Most nationalist areas only have flags up on specific days now, Easter uprising commemeration being the main one and theyre taken down quite soon after. You get the occasional tricolour but nothing anywhere near the scale of most loyalist areas.
 
Gerard said:
Know any catholic unionists or loyalists?
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Yes. Two half sisters who're raised catholic and Unionists. A few aunts and uncles too. Not every catholic in Northern Ireland was a Republican / Nationalist, the same way not every protestant was a Loyalist / Unionist.
 
Orcish-Horde said:
Am not a protestant, I do know a number of catholics that are both Unionist and loyalist and a few that were UDR. No doubt you will find that strange but yet again your not from my community.
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A few maybe, few and far between for the most part. Thankfully im not from your community after watching this spectacle over the last few weeks.
 
Gerard said:
Most nationalist areas only have flags up on specific days now, Easter uprising commemeration being the main one and theyre taken down quite soon after. You get the occasional tricolour but nothing anywhere near the scale of most loyalist areas.
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How about the Newlodge Flats they flight their flags 364 days a year and have done for as long as I can remember.
 
estebanrey said:
Why can't they they fly the Union flag AND the Irish flag?

Or is that too logical?
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jordyGFC said:
Why would they fly a flag from a foreign nation?
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You mean like County Hall in London does :rolleyes:

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You don't see UKIP voters rioting because the EU flag flies over London County Hall do you?

jordyGFC said:
And something that is very sensitive in this area? You clearly dont understand Northern Ireland..
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What I don't understand is how human beings can be so bloody irrational and stupid.
 
Orcish-Horde said:
How about the Newlodge Flats they flight their flags 364 days a year and have done for as long as I can remember.
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And that would be what? 1 Tricolour? As i said, you get the odd exception but its nowhere near the scale of over the top slapping of flags on every structure as most Loyalist areas. Why 364 days though, they take them down for chrsitmas? ;)
 
Gerard said:
Where are they? Well off the top of my head the village on the Donegall road springs to mind (UVF flags and all), Stoneyford, the protestant community on the blacks road, around the Finaghy area has also had a load of flags put up recently as well. Areas of north belfast etc.
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I can grantee every single lamp post is not covered with a flag. As you say, these flags have been put up recently just like the foreign flags on the ormeau road. lets not try and make this another "its only them" situation.

Mitzy said:
Mate I live in a Blue area of North Belfast, nearly every lamppost on the bus route to the City Center via the blue area has flags, the bus also passes through a green area, funny thing, no flags. Weird.
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I see plenty of Foreign flags such as the ones ormeau road.
 
jordyGFC said:
I can grantee every single lamp post is not covered with a flag. As you say, these flags have been put up recently just like the foreign flags on the ormeau road. lets not try and make this another "its only them" situation.



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Nope the ones on finaghy have only been put up recently, there was a report a while back of people going round putting flags up. They've even put flags up around the Holy Cross school again. Most places like the village have them up year round.
 
Gerard said:
And that would be what? 1 Tricolour? As i said, you get the odd exception but its nowhere near the scale of over the top slapping of flags on every structure as most Loyalist areas. Why 364 days though, they take them down for chrsitmas? ;)
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"every structure", thats lies. Its only lamp posts and the odd different thing depending on the area. I dont walk down the castlereagh road and see any. I dont walk down the newtownards road and see them flying from telephone masts and radio towers.
 
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