Over the years some resistance has built up against the St George Cross, as it was adopted by the politically far right, much in the way that the confederate flag was in America.
This is a huge shame because, those who want to declare their Britishness are put off by celebrating the flag, not wishing to be associated with the hate peddled by the far right.
The distrust or hate of another simply due to the place that they happened to be born, or the colour of their skin, completely ignores the fact that we are all human beings.
By the far right hijacking the flag, it leaves those of us who don’t harbor those extreme views in a quandary – How do you show that you’re proud of English?
Given no alternative, the only way is to unite under the flag of St George and sing out, “Land of Hope and Glory.”
