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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Chief Constable of North Wales says flying English flag is racist

The Chief Constable of North Wales, Clive Wolfendale, has said that flying the English flag from your car in Wales is disrespectful and could lead to racism and violence. He said that it is a "matter of courtesy and of decent behaviour" not to fly an English flag from your car when in Wales and that "there's no doubt about it that this can be the precursor to behaviour which is much worse than flag waving - it's violence, it's racism, it's hooliganism of the very worse kind."

Personally, I think that if the Welsh are so bigotted and Anglophobic that the sight of an English person flying an English flag from their car could drive them to racism and violence then it is they who have the problem and instead of telling English people they shouldn't be flying their national flag, the police should be doing something to identify these violent racists and deal with them before they cause any trouble.