“Where are our flags? Why are we discriminated against?”

 

I am utterly ashamed: ashamed for Wales and the Welsh Labour government. That lot – in power since the inception of ‘devolution’ – has brought us the worst results in education,  NHS Wales is so bad that those who can drive to England to be treated – but now they’ve come up with this: “Asexual and ‘aromantic’ flags to be hung in public buildings under Welsh Labour plan” (paywalled link). 

I had to rub my eyes because at first glance I read ‘aromatic flag’ and wondered if this was something to keep the air in public buildings smell nice. However, they are truly serious – see this:

“The flag for aromantic people consists of horizontal bands of dark green, light green, white, grey and black, and can be flown on June 5. The bisexual flag, flown on September 23, is pink, purple and blue, while the asexual flag is black, grey, white and purple. International Asexuality Day takes place on April 6. All these flags are separate from the general rainbow flag.” (paywalled link)

While I can sort-of understand what is meant by asexuality, I am baffled by ‘aromantic’. Do these people shun anything to do with ‘luurve’ and just go for quickie, one-night-stand bonks? And why is there no flag to represent celibates? It gets worse:

“The flag plan is part of the LGBTQ+ Action Plan for Wales, published by the Labour-run Government. It states: “Appropriate flags raised in public sector buildings, particularly from underrepresented communities (eg bisexual; asexual; aromantic).” The instruction indicates that other LGBT groups with flags of their own could be granted their own flag days in Wales.” (paywalled link)

It’s discrimination pure and simple because there’s no flag for the ‘romantic’! Furthermore, it’s discriminatory because there’s no flag for ‘beast kin’, i.e. those who self-identify as an animal. Me, I’m of course a collie …

It is however a clever, dead-cat-on-the-table ploy because clearly, it’s far more important to show how Alphabet-friendly the Welsh Labour government is rather than explain why NHS Wales is in such an atrocious condition – after a quarter of a century of Welsh Labour government – and never mind actually doing something about this.

This is the future for our country once Labour occupies No 10: big words about bad Tories but no change in the dire state of the NHS, education, infrastructure, illegal migrants while accumulating laws forbidding everything. 20mph on all roads in England is not impossible. I’m only surprised the London Mayor hasn’t followed Dripford in permitting more Alphabet flags to be flown on London’s public buildings. 

As for the rest of todays ‘news’ – well, what a surprise: it’s ‘Russian spies’, and while only the grauniad reports that they’re actually Bulgarians, the rest of today’s print editions are outraged that yon spies declared themselves to be ‘journalists’ and were living in ’suburbia’ – how heinous! Here’s Al Beeb’s front page compilation: “Newspaper headlines: Russian ‘spy ring’ and ‘bumper’ rise in pensions” (link).

Only the Express screams about that ‘rise in pensions’ which might (!) increase the state pension: might because it’s not yet decided. I wonder if this is a clever ploy by the Treasury because the closer yon tax free state pension is to the tax free personal allowance, the more anything above this, e.g. income from occupational pensions, will be taxed. This money is needed for the pay rise for civil serpents, reported only in the Speccie email newsletter yesterday: “Public sector pay growth jumped 9.6 per cent, the fastest rate since records began, with private sector wages growing at 7.9 per cent.”

Cynical old cow that I am, I assume our glorious MSM aren’t reporting this on their front pages because their ‘sources’ might become angry and stop gossiping to them. Ah well – I’m sure the ‘public sector’ is worth it, given how hard they’re at work, especially in Wales, promoting flags for all and sundry to show how woke and tolerant they are. After all, displaying the ‘correct’ flag for ‘suppressed minorities’ is so much more important than making sure that the needs of the taxpaying plebs are addressed. Moreover, someone has to pay for all those flags and for the crayons which yon serpents need to design more flags.

That’s all I have for today. I’m now going to design a flag for dog owners. Perhaps you can design a flag for cat owners. After all, we’re a suppressed minority and deserve our own flag! Describe your design in the comments! Have a good day.



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