St George’s flags and the myth of ‘Scouse not English’
From our UK edition
Operation Raise the Colours, a grassroots movement to adorn our towns and cities with England flags, has swept across the country. It has even hit Liverpool – long mythologised as a bastion of left-wing exceptionalism, and where Labour conference starts today. St George’s crosses can now be found across the north of the city: Dovecot, Knotty Ash, Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park and Walton have seen lamp posts adorned with the national flag, as has Huyton to the east. Not everyone is happy with this display of patriotism, as this Reddit thread suggests.
