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Labour, LibDem, SNP and Plaid councils are quietly sending out teams of council workers to take down flags put up by Raise the Colours activists and independent members of the public. These leftist bigots add insult to injury as taxpayers who were heartened to see the display of patriotism and identity are forced to pay to have them removed.
What s the answer? In the first instance, get out there and put up twice as many. For good measure, find out where the anti-British councillors live and do their own leafy streets. Tell them too, but be VERY polite when doing so or they’ll go squealing about ‘intimidation’.
But, of course, their most likely response to new flags going up is to get them taken down too. It’s a game that two can play, it all depends if those buying and putting up cheap flags (which don’t have a very long lifespan as smart displays in any case) have got more staying power than the councils taking them down. I that case, the council workers taking them down need to be confronted (peacefully, needless to say) as they go about their destructive work and encouraged to return to base.
So is there as better way of getting those flags left flying high? Yes and, fortunately, it doesn’t involve getting aggressive with council workers, or any of the other nastiness currently being mooted out there.
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What needs to be done is strictly legal; in fact, it specifically involves using the law against the very people who usually hide behind it. There are two simple steps:
The first involves putting together or, since we’re now well into the early stages of the AI revolution, getting Grok to put together, a Freedom of Information Act request, to send to your offending local council.
This should include your demand for information about the council decision-making processes involved. You need to find out the whos, whys, whens and costs of the whole process. So you need the minutes and decisions from all meetings, and email and other discussions concerning the decision to take down the flags and the actual process:
Where was this done on the grounds of road safety and, in those cases, what was the assessment process?
Who was employed to go round and make the assessments? Please supply their reports and an estimate as to the cost of this operation;
If the removal was done on grounds of safety, how many flags were removed for this reason and how many were left in situ after the assessment concluded that there was no safety issue given their position?
Was the matter discussed, and the decision made, in full council, by a section of the council or by council employees? Who was involved and who actually sent out the order to council workers to remove the flags?
What consideration was made for the feelings of members of communities or groups who put up the flags, or appreciated their appearance?
Was consideration given to the fact that the Prime Minister has specifically stated that such displays of flags should be allowed, as they help to unify the nation?
Has the council previously removed or left in situ any other flags?
Has the council in the past flown flags of other nations, or celebrating LGBT causes or Black Lives Matter? If so, which flags, when, where and at what cost?
Was consideration given to the danger that members of the public who put up the flags or supported their appearance might mistakenly blame the followers of non-Chrisitan faiths for the removal of flags made up of Christian crosses, thereby inciting religious or racial hatred?
Was it decided to announce the flag removal policy or to carry it out without making it public? If the former, where was it publicised? If the latter, why?
How many man-hours did it take to remove them, and what did this cost?
Which budget did this come from?
How many flags were removed?
Was any attempt made to identify and contact their owners?
What was done with them?
Did the decision involve consideration of the possibility of legal action against the council by pro-flag activists and, specifically, the possible cost of defending Pre-Action Letters before Judicial Review, and subsequent Judicial Review Proceedings?
If so, what costs were estimated? If not, will the council now consider this issue?
Also supply minutes of the discussion of this FOI request.
Finally, in the light of all the above, will the council now concede that it was an error to take down flags – except for any which were a genuine danger to road safety, such as any obscuring road signs or junctions – and confirm that, the next time such flags appear, they will be accorded proper respect and be left flying?
The procedure for submitting your FOI request is very simple, and will be fully explained by Grok; so get to it.
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Pre-Action Judicial Review letters are also something with which AI now copes very well, so don’t worry about that later stage at the moment, The one thing you need to understand straight away is that a Pre-Action letter produced in this way will cost you nothing, but that the council is compelled to put together a defence and submit it in good time.
Even replying to your FOI (as the law insists they must) will put them to significant trouble and cost, but that’s small change compared to responding to the subsequent Pre-Action letter – unless they have the sense to roll over and play dead as soon as they have thought through the FOI demand.
The beauty of Pre-Action JR letters is that the council cannot make any claim for costs if you simply walk away rather than actually starting a JR action. They are going to looking at a bill already running into thousands of pounds, and even if you drop it at that stage there’s absolutely no way they can recover a penny. You know that, they know that, but they simply cannot ignore this double-tap threat, or they will lose by default.
Think of it as a protest riot; but instead of going out and scuffling with the police, smashing windows or spray-painting council property, all you are doing is exercising your legal rights in a totally peaceful, constitutional way. It’s a Legal Riot, but it will cost them as much as one which would put you and your fellow patriots in serious trouble.
On the contrary, the trouble, pain and costs will all fall on them. Which will serve them right for tearing down our flags in the first place.
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When you go to put them back up, there is a far better way than the cable-tie- through-each-eyelet method used in most places the first time round, but that’s something to which I’ll return here shortly. Subscribe (for free) to my Substack and make sure you don’t miss it, or any of my much deeper articles, for that matter. Oh, and thanks for all Restacks! Cheers, Nick.
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