A Labour-run council has sparked outrage by ordering the removal of British flags from lampposts - while being ‘too scared’ to take down Palestine flags without police protection.
Bankrupt Birmingham City Council said hundreds of Union and St George’s flags recently hung around the city ‘could put lives at risk’ by endangering motorists and pedestrians.
The flags had been strung up by a small, organised group of residents to ‘show Birmingham and the rest of the country how proud we are of our history, freedoms and achievements’.
Their display of patriotism was met with a swift response from the city council, which vowed to immediately begin removing the flags due to ‘safety concerns’.
The decision was blasted by shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick as ‘blatant two-tier bias against the British people’, after critics pointed out Palestine flags had been left to fly from lampposts across Birmingham for the past 18 months without the council tearing them down.
