• ohulancutash@feddit.uk
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    4 days ago

    But it started happening here only after Brexit. It’s a deliberate lurch to the right and nationalism. It can get stuffed. Utterly transparent and performative. Something foreigners might go for but alien to Britain.

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      4 days ago

      It absolutely did not start here only after Brexit, and it’s absolutely not alien to Britain.

      God forbid the state rail company uses state branding.

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      4 days ago

      But it started happening here only after Brexit.

      You’re right. Here’s Tony Blair and George Bush Junior discussing plans for Iraq post Brexit draped with flags 🥲.

      Edit: And here’s Blair and Japan’s Abe discussing post Brexit trade deals being overrun by flags 🤣.

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        3 days ago

        A bad faith comment because you can’t possibly think moments of international diplomacy are the same.

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          3 days ago

          😅 this is going to turn into a “what have the Romans ever done for us” sketch, right?

          We never used to use flags before Brexit

          Here’s us using flags before Brexit.

          Well apart from that…

          Edit: Here’s Gordon Brown’s 2009 Labour Party conference speech where he discussed Brexit related border checks on foreign workers using his now infamous “Red White and Blue, a Brexit that works for you” catch phrase.