Originally Posted by g hall

His house why can't he do as he chooses ?

Originally Posted by Harbinger

Yeah people should be alowod to make their neghbourhood look **** right?

Originally Posted by John in Scotland

I do get the impression, however, (though perhaps I have been led astray by the deceitful press) that had the gent in question been flying a St George's Cross, there would have been no problem - which seems somewhat strange to me.

(As one of the non-nationalists on this forum, I would find flying national flags at least as sinister as flying Jolly Rogers. And there are a lot of people in Northern Ireland who find the flying of Union Jacks rather threatening.)

Originally Posted by Northumbrian

Funny, I'm one of the nationalists on the forum yet I never have an urge to fly a national flag.

Originally Posted by Harbinger

Yeah people should be alowod to make their neghbourhood look **** right?

Originally Posted by Harbinger

Some chav gets taken to court for making his house look an even bigger hit tip than it already was and this is news?

Originally Posted by Ayn Rand

"Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good."

Originally Posted by The Bear

Well sorry, guys, but I can see the sense in this. If I lived in a group of houses and someone chose to fly a darned big flag such as that, be it the Jolly Roger or the Union flag and all things in-between in the way that he did, I would not be greatly impressed.

Let’s look at the facts.

For one thing we don’t know when his daughters birthday was, all we do know is that the council received a complaint on April 16th.

He was SENT a letter on April 21st, that’s 5 days later telling him he had 7 days to take the horrible big thing down, and big it certainly was.

5 feet by 3 feet, that’s not far short of the size of a single bed sheet. Hanging out in front of a house in a residential area.

We also know that he left the thing in place for days after the party, we have to wonder why.

Why he left such an inappropriate thing hanging outside a house in what otherwise looks like a quite respectable area.

We also read that his kids behaviour has been cause for complaint in the past, so maybe there’s more to this than just a guy being pilloried for being a bit eccentric and there’s more than a little “let’s wind them up” dimension involved on his part.

So rather than it being a guy being persecuted by some “jobsworth” it actually looks far more like a guy with a family that are causing concern by their behaviour to at least some of his neighbours bringing down the “tone” of where he lives even further and the local council doing their job and tackling overt acts that are simply wrong for the neighbourhood.

That’s the problem with the gutter press.

So often they pre-digest a story and present it in a way that so much of the real meat is lost in the pursuit of sensationalism and impact in order to draw and hold the crowds.

Originally Posted by Ea of Dune

I actually though this was going to be some kind of joke .

F****g council knobheads.

Ea of dune