Thread by @fascinatorfun

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress It’s the Gov behind the flag that induces shame

The flag can be taken to represent who we are.

Under the current regime that is untrustworthy, untruthful, destructive, reckless, harmful to its own citizens.

A different, better, more ethical, competent Gov could change that PDQ

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress Performative nationalism is no replacement for competent, ethical, trustworthy patriotism and we don’t have that right now.

I hope that will change

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress To be clear. I’m v. proud of specific British people who speak up with clarity & courage about how Government actions are slowly (and sometimes very quickly) are strangling the very best of British in products, arts, fashion, professional services, trade.

Patriotism in action.

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress But this is what we have had to put up with flag waving press briefings. Day after day. Now if the actions had been competent - something to be proud about- that would feel quite different.

But it has not been thus. We are just short of 150,000 COVID dead as of yesterday.

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1372846896771956740

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress Finally. IF you purport to defend democracy that means you are dedicated to allowing views and perspectives (including explanations of patriotism) other than yours have space and respect.

@lia_nici @JamesSunderl @BBCBreakfast @BBCNews @Ofcom @bbcpress Telling U.K. Citizens who are fully entitled to a reasonable alternative perspective they can live somewhere else if their views do not accord with yours on issues of national identity and pride is the reverse of that.

It sounds like a dictatorship not a democracy