Currently it is illegal to fly a national flag without permission from a local council - unless it is flown from a vertical flagpole.We must have been breaking the law then when we hung both a UK flag and a Stars and Stripes on my parents' house when we got married. From this article I would guess that English flags were very much in evidence recently, until the English football (soccer) team lost. Sounds like another example of an American tradition (flying the flag that is, not losing at soccer) catching on in the UK, just like the increasing commercialization in the UK of pseudo-holidays like Halloween.
The rule means thousands of football fans were technically breaking the law during the World Cup by displaying the Cross of St George.(BBC news)
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I didn't know about the flag pole rule....got away with flying Union Jack and Stars and Stripes from the bedroom windows ( in U.K.) when our daughter married an American.
It's rediculous all the red tape in the UK. I know that there have even been incidences where public govt. buildings haven't been allowed to fly the Union Jack instead of the EU flag. Conrol, control. I say Brits need to learn to love flying the lfag like it is flow here by Americans often--witness teenager's room here! LOL>
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