Posted by 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.
When the Mail visited the Sparkhill area, where around 80 per cent of the population is Muslim, there were no fewer than seven Palestine flags hanging from lampposts on a mile-long stretch of Stratford Road.
It can also be revealed that the crisis-crippled council has privately admitted it is too scared to try to remove the Palestine flags without police protection.
In a leaked email obtained by the Mail, council cabinet member Majid Mahmood said of the Palestine flags hanging from lampposts in February: ‘We are taking these down, but we need the support of the police due to issues that have cropped (up) when we first tried to take them down.’
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