Union Flag "in distress"
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There is no set designation for the Flag of the United Kingdom based on wher it is flown. The Admiralty have always interchanged Flag and Jack regardless of whether it is being flown on land or ship and at the start of the 20th century specifically stated that either name was appropriate which was then given Parliamentary approval.
Flag or Jack, both are right regardless of where it is
The Union flag isn't racist. That's the St Georges cross as that has been co-opted by the EDL etc.
Perhaps you should get a few friends from a reenactment club and head over there with a small section of napoleonic era soldiers.
Or just dress up as batman and fly in.
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The officer behind the desk at my local police station didn't take too kindly to me informing him that the station was flying the Union Flag upside down. In fact, one could say he was downright rude. 
Ah, I see. That's quite funny
It's also an urban myth though.
http://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/
I remember some really anal scout leader used to bore us all correcting our usage of 'union jack'... rather satisfying to see that he was wrong all along
*put phone upside down*
Its the exact same
it is a reflection rather than a rotation through 180 degrees...
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If your neighbour has gone to the trouble of taking the flag down, turning it upside down and hoisting it back up again you can be sure it's a humdinger of a problem that requires immediate attention.
There's neighbour near me with Union Jack and England flags loudly out on display. The Union Jack is upside down. I chuckle at the irony whenever I walk past. Shouldn't flying the flag the right way up be on Page 1 of the Little Britain Handbook?
The Union flag isn't racist. That's the St Georges cross as that has been co-opted by the EDL etc.
~ 1993 I was at school doing my A-levels. It was the fashion at the time to hang various flags in our dormitory windows.
There were a couple of hammer and sickles, a confederate flag, a south african flag, a banner with che guevara, some scottish, welsh and southern irish flags.
My room had the union flag in the window.
I was told I had to remove the flag from display because a parent had complained to the school that it was too nationalistic. None of the apartheid/slavery supporting, revolutionary murdering, symbol of communist oppression or other flags of national pride were viewed as being verboten.
This still baffles me 20-something years later.
