In a move that has stunned the public, Glasgow City Council Has BANNED the Union Flag from a street celebration at a community event celebrating the first Armed forced day as it could be provocative – even though Gordon Brown urged people to fly the flag for our troops with pride!

The people in Dennistoun wanted to pay special tribute to Armed Forces veterans and also serving soldiers. One of their friends, David Lavery, is a serving soldier in Iraq in the Royal Navy.

The organisers of a Dennistoun street party wrote to Glasgow City councillor Pat Chalmers for permission to fly the flag.

Permission to fly the flag of our country?

Councillors warned organiser that they should only use plain coloured bunting as the Union Flag would be provocative due to the Old Firm divide and any other flags would be taken down.

Chalmers also said that it was the local authority’s policy not to allow flags to be raised on public streets.

They then contacted Pat Chalmers and said that even Gordon Brown was backing flying the Union Flag, but they didn’t even bother to reply.

Organiser Jim Clark said, “When we wrote to the council saying we wanted to deck out a couple of streets with Union flags, Saltires and Commonwealth Games flags, they initially said we couldn’t. Even though we pointed out it was Armed Forces Day – which Gordon Brown is behind – they haven’t been in touch since.

“We’ve raised the money and hired a private contractor to put up the flags so there are no health and safety issues involved.

“The council are perhaps looking at it from a football perspective but people from all sorts of background are fighting for their country. This has nothing to do with football.”

Councillor Pat Chalmers said, “Unfortunately, Mr Clark’s very late requests came to my attention as the council went into recess.

“It was therefore too late to hold a council meeting to assess whether we should make an exception in this instance.”

You need a meeting to decide whether to put up a flag?

The event in Glasgow’s East End took place after the Armed Forces Day parade in Glasgow’s George Square.

The event at Georges Square included 500 Armed Forces Personnel and an RAF Nimrod Flypast.

Pat Chalmers, do you need reminding of who pays YOUR wages?

I do sympathise with the people of Dennistoun on this but, as like many people, they have got what they voted for. It’s about time the people of Britain began to wake up and smell the coffee (or stench of anti-Unionism.

They started this down in England with little Stalin and Hitler figures running around telling people to remove flags and that the people were not allowed to put up items such as flags and bunting.

The people of Scotland seem to think they are immune from it all, well you are not!
You should maybe start to Google similar events that have happened in England as most of the time things tend to filter over the border.

Jim Clark and the other people who were organising a day to celebrate our armed forces have to ask themselves this.

If this was a day to celebrate Multi-Culturalism and diversity or some sort of gay rights march, which would have involved the rainbow flag, I can guarantee not only would you have been given the go ahead, but the council would have dipped into the taxpayers coffers and paid for the flags, bunting and leaflets. Did anyone else notice the lack of advertising for the Armed Forces Day?

This is Britain. The Union flag is the symbol of our nation. These people, like Pat Chalmers, have little or no respect for it.