How do people in Solihull feel about the ‘raise the flags’ movement?

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National flags are being raised on lampposts across the country. We asked people in Birmingham how they feel about the movement and whether it brings communities together or divides opinion.

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00:00To be honest with you, I'm perfectly fine with it, to be honest with you.

00:03I think it's obviously come with a contentious issue, but I think

00:08my real question is, if it wasn't done with the purpose of antagonism,

00:16why were they not there prior to when this issue originally arose?

00:21The few won't be saying the right wing might be whatever or whatever, but the majority of

00:25are banned here, whatever or whatever, so yeah.

00:27Got no issues, it's okay.

00:29I think it's a good thing. I was born in this country, a lot of my contemporaries are born

00:35in this country or have come out of this country. We should be proud to be British.

00:39I don't know what points people are trying to make, to be perfectly honest.

00:45Yes, I guess we want to be patriotic and support our country, but there's an element of racism,

00:52I guess, in the display of flags and I'm not for that.

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