Council demands Union Flag bunting is removed

North Tyneside Council has been criticised after it demanded Tory councillors took down Union Jack bunting hanging in the party's Group Room.

Councillor Sean Brockbank the leader of North Tyneside Conservatives said: "The Union Flag is part of our national identity and is indeed flown in government buildings up and down the country - it is astonishing that this is not allowed in North Tyneside.

Bryn Roberts, head of Law and Governance at North Tyneside Council, allegedly said the flags were "not appropriate" and "overtly political" in a message sent to councillor Sean Brockbank, leader of North Tyneside Conservatives.

[microaggressionsurvivor]

If they don't like the sight of a British bunting in Britain I think they're in the wrong country.

[LouiseKernow]

You cannot ban the national flag: if you don't like our flag - you know where the airport is.

[abcd...]

Just straight up bullying and abuse of power, these people need to be removed from office immediately.

[arfurwitt]

We need to see headlines that say” Residents demand that unpatriotic divisive councillors are removed”

[Kramp]

The Union Jack is now "overtly political"?!?! These nut-jobs have completely lost the plot

[drunkmanonlaptop]

IT'S OUR NATIONAL FLAG, IT'S EVERYTHING WE STAND FOR.
IT'S AN UTTER DISGRACE FOR ANY COUNCIL TO ACT LIKE THIS. I AM SCOTTISH AND I LOVE THE UNION JACK

[colinmelling]

Any council who are not patriotic to this country and our national flag should be defunded completely.

[stepheneast]

If people don’t like the Union Flag which is our national flag, please exercise your freedom and leave this country.

[jerrybootneck]

Fly the union flag with pride and let them take you to court and let a judge decide.

[TheDaflad]

I’d bet my last dollar 💵 if they’d displayed a BLM flag and a portrait of good old George Floyd nobody would have said a dicky-bird 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

[rhyfelwrDuw]

I expect if it was 'rainbow' flag bunting it would have been allowed!

[pippaneil]

Not appropriate in a
"public funded building"
"WHO SAYS"

[salvofarnia]

Sack them for gross misconduct, this is not on, they should not remain hidden behind a wall.
Lets see who it is.

[kaygibson]

It sounds like the council is ashamed of being British.

[JckSwan]

The UK's never been that showy about its patriotism, usually displayed on a very few specific days of the year or during sporting events. I don't object at all to people being a bit flag-wavy, but I do object to people objecting to it in our own country.

[densalbeach]

It is a show of national pride, something that is suppressed in this country. It makes me want to go out and deck my house with union jack bunting!

[martinlouden]

Complaints or not, this is Great Britain and there is no law that bans the deployment of the national flag! I'd like to see where noncompliance would have lead!?

[martinjohnson]

The 'officials' that instigated this flag removal should be themselves be immediately removed from their jobs as they have insulted their employer, the North Tynside public.

[andyforshaw]

All Labour councils doing this. What a Surprise. Surprise to no one

[neillaw]

I love that were at the stage where approval of OUR country's flag is political