BBC News reports: “Prison officers at a West Yorkshire jail have been advised in a report not to wear St George’s Cross tie-pins. The wearing of England’s national symbol by staff at Wakefield Prison could be “misinterpreted”, said the report’s section on race relations.”
It is our flag, morons! Can you imagine the uproar if American prison officers were told not to wear Stars & Stripes tie-pins? That’s unthinkably unpatriotic and it’s likely the complainers would end up in prison!
As the poster pointed out, the solution is to correct those doing the misinterpretation; how about a little education about English heritage and maybe, just maybe, people will recognise our national flag!
[Spotted @ The England Project: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a flag?]
Anne Owers should be strung up for treason.
Who? (Looks her up. Ah, Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons.)
I don’t know anything about her but she obviously has a problem with the English flag; I suspect that’s political agenda rather than ignorance. If she is singling out the English for such criticism, isn’t that racism, which is, err, illegal?
Don’t string her up though – let her experience one of those lovely HMP establishments from the inside.