Operation Raise the Colours, a grassroots movement to adorn our towns and cities with England flags, has swept across the country. It has even hit Liverpool – long mythologised as a bastion of left-wing exceptionalism, and where Labour conference starts today. St George’s crosses can now be found across the north of the city: Dovecot, Knotty Ash, Aintree, Fazakerley, Orrell Park and Walton have seen lamp posts adorned with the national flag, as has Huyton to the east. Not everyone is happy with this display of patriotism, as this Reddit thread suggests.

Liverpool is not as politically unique as its left-wing cheerleaders want you to believe

Those who are offended at seeing the national flag fly in the home of the Beatles point to the well-known mantra of ‘Scouse not English’: the idea

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