A city council in Britain has sought a legal order to prohibit unauthorised flags and banners from being fixed near roads

 

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Fact Check: Birmingham City Council has not sought an outright national flag ban

By Reuters Fact Check

September 4, 20263:34 PM GMT+1Updated September 4, 2026

A city council in Britain has sought a legal order to prohibit unauthorised flags and banners from being fixed near roads, not an outright ban of the national flag.

Social ​media posts linked the decision to a photo showing some ethnic-minority councillors elected to ‌Birmingham City Council.

"Birmingham City council in the UK have just pushed to ban the national flag," said an August 29 post

Opens new tab on Facebook. "Can any one think why? This is why you can’t trust these people. They do not respect other ​cultures. They only want to push their own agenda."

A post, opens new tab sharing the same photo on X ​received 1.5 million views.

Comments underneath the post suggest some believed the authority was ⁠pushing for an outright flag ban and that the photo is representative of all the authority's ​councillors.

"When a country’s own flag is outlawed on its own soil, what does that mean? It’s no ​longer your land. You’ve been conquered," said

Another said:"Looking at that lineup, the irony is hard to miss. A council largely composed of immigrant families deciding which symbols define the nation."

However, Birmingham City Council said in an online statement  

that it ​was seeking a High Court injunction to "prohibit unauthorised attachments on the highway, including flags and banners".

"We are ​not stopping people flying flags on their property," a Birmingham City Council spokesperson said in an email.

The 40 people ‌pictured ⁠in the social media post's photo montage are all listed as councillor on Birmingham City Council's website.

But the council website says it has 101 councillors. Reuters found images , opens new tab 

of the other 61 people are missing from the social media post.

Fixing items such as flags on highways or street furniture is an offence under Section 132 ​of the 1980 Highways Act .

Fixing items such as flags on highways or street furniture is an offence under Section 132 ​of the 1980 Highways Act, ​which says local ⁠authorities have a statutory duty to “maintain" the highways under their control. The act also says the relevant authority is allowed to remove any items that have ​been fixed without getting prior consent.

The British government's guide to flying flags says ​any national ⁠flag - including the Union Jack and St George's Cross - does not require planning consent to be displayed, providing you have permission of the landowner, which includes the highways authority if you want to place it next ⁠to ​a road.

VERDICT

Misleading. Birmingham City Council is seeking to prohibit the fixing ​of unauthorised flags nearhighways, not instigate an outright ban. The social media post's montage is not representative of all the ​authority's 101 councillors. This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

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Rule, Britannia! rule the waves / Britons never will be slaves

 

“When Britain first, at Heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain:

"Rule, Britannia! rule the waves:
"Britons never will be slaves."

Where are the British men? They all run like rabbits because they are afraid of the Muslims?

 

Birmingham Council has moved to ban England and UK flags in the "interest of public safety"

 

"The British people are a bunch of emasculated cowards."

Niemöller fez esta confissão no seu discurso para a Igreja Confessante em Frankfurt em 6 de janeiro de 1946

 

Quando os nazis levaram os comunistas, fiquei em silêncio; eu não era comunista.
Quando levaram os sindicalistas, fiquei em silêncio; eu não era sindicalista.
Quando prenderam os social-democratas, fiquei em silêncio; eu não era social-democrata.
Quando prenderam os judeus, fiquei em silêncio; eu não era judeu.
Quando vieram me buscar, não havia mais ninguém para protestar. 

Tenho uma lágrima no canto do olho... (já lá vão 51 anos)

 

Celebrating a massacre on October 7th

 

Michael Rapaport 

Never forget the elation, the orgasmic celebration of the innocent civilians of Gaza on 10/7. This was their World Series. The day their children graduated college. The best day of their lives. Crying tears of joy in the streets as dead Jews were proudly carried through Gaza in beautiful, broad daylight.

 

M𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐈𝐌 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃-𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐂: 𝐌𝐀𝐌𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐈’𝐒 𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐀 ‘𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆’ 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐂𝐓𝐎𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝟕 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐂𝐑𝐄

 

M.A. Rothman

A prominent Muslim Brotherhood-linked cleric just credited H∗mas’s October 7 massacre with electing two American politicians his movement now celebrates.

"𝘐𝘧 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭-𝘈𝘲𝘴𝘢 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘡𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨," said 𝐀𝐥𝐢 𝐚𝐥-𝐐𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐢, speaking at an August conference in Turkey, using H∗mas’s own military code name for the attack that k!lled 𝟏,𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐈𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐢 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬.

 

Qaradaghi isn’t a fringe figure. He is secretary-general of the Qatar-based International Union for Muslim Scholars, founded by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, long regarded as the 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝. The group has been accused by Egypt, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE of using religious cover to facilitate terrorism; it denies the charge.

 

Qaradaghi didn’t stop at generalities. "𝘔𝘢𝘮𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘪 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 [𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳] 𝘰𝘧 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘣𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘳𝘢𝘩𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘭-𝘚𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 $73 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘯," he said. "𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘭-𝘈𝘲𝘴𝘢 𝘍𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘥." He was crediting the massacre for El-Sayed’s upset in the Michigan Senate primary and for Mamdani’s ride to Gracie Mansion.

 

Both men have given him reason to sound triumphant. Mamdani campaigned on a promise to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, later admitting he lacks the power to do so, and defended the chant "𝐆𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚." El-Sayed has vowed to withdraw U.S. military aid from Israel entirely. 𝐀 𝐦𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞’𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬