Earlier this Summer I raised our glorious Red, White and Blue on a visit to my Indian residence, flying resplendently with the Indian Saffron, White and Green.
I did so because I am proud and privileged to be British and equally blessed to have been born Indian, and thus it is literally winning the lottery of life to call these two greatest flags of freedom, liberty and democracy - my own.
Our union flag unites us all as one people under one flag, proudly belonging to a civilisational nation which gives us all the opportunities of a lifetime and defines our identity as those who cherish our history and heritage, which built a greater Britain.
It is the great leveller – whether you are the prime minister or working the tills in Tesco or even a grotesquely overpaid, over-glorified, Britain-bashing footballer. Our glorious flag belongs to us all and unites us all.
And that’s why Gary Neville’s venomous anti-national diatribe of division, pointing the finger at “middle-aged white men” flying the flag for the evil Islamist jihadi terror attack on British Jews, is a slap in the face of millions of Britons who look to our flag as a beacon of shared identity and pride.
A reprehensible betrayal not only of the England jersey, which landed him his fame and name, but also of the very spirit of unity the Union Flag embodies.
As a proud British Indian, Gary Neville's 'angry, white men' flag rant was a slap in the face - Aman BhogalIt was the warm-hearted values of our union flag which extended our nation’s well-meaning but ultimately suicidal empathy to the young Syrian refugee boy who chose to repay Britain with jihadist terror on our streets.
Whether the liberal loony-left likes it or not, the stitching on the union flag is not mere threads of cotton, it is what stitches together our national tapestry – no matter whether you are black, white or brown, but if you proudly fly it as British, that is the very essence of what makes Britain, Britain.
The centuries of struggle of white working men and women who built Britain, the sacrifices of the young white boys and men who defended it from the trenches, and the indomitable contribution of millions of Commonwealth immigrants like my grandfather who made ‘old Blighty’ their home with affinity and love, learnt English, integrated with their English neighbours, who as a carpenter did his small bit to help rebuild post WW2 south London, have endowed us with a peerless civilisational inheritance.
When I first moved to England as a young boy in 1992, the country was still a solid five years away from the division which would be sown by three decades of the toxic Blairite orthodoxy foisting upon us the failed experiment of multiculturalism.
Far too often Britain has seen, be it the Brexit debate or the serious concerns of ordinary people about out-of-control mass immigration.
The likes of Gary Neville – the liberal gated establishment elite sneer down at the great British public from their offshore ivory towers, telling us all how we are wrong-thinking bigoted “little Englanders” for caring about our communities, our country and the future of our families.
Gary Neville’s jumped-up, divisive rant does not just attempt to chip away at the meaning of the Union Flag, it seeks to erode the national trust and sense of belonging that underpin a healthy, functioning society – a strong nation state.
When Leftwallahs feel happy flying foreign sectarian flags on our streets and raising them at our town halls, but pull down our union flag and the Cross of St George as offensive to the “diversity is our strength” brigade it ultimately serves to undermine the connection many feel to their heritage and to each other.
We, the British people, have had enough with being labelled “far-right” and extremists and racists for simply having pride in our country and affording the respect that our union flag deserves.
I fly these glorious flags – both the Union Flag and the Cross of St George because for me they are a living testament to the courage and resilience of our people and the hope it gives us that under the Union Flag in our United Kingdom tomorrow will be a better day.
The bottom line is that it is a shocking indictment of the noxious, unhinged division being peddled against pride in our nation and flag.
We, the ordinary British people, are demonised by the internationalist liberal elite who value everything else above the nation which has given them everything.
Whereas the truth is - we ordinary Britons value the threads that weave together the glorious story of this great civilisational nation above everything else.
We will conserve our civilisational inheritance, we will reclaim our national pride, we will get our nation back on track – stand with Britain, Britons and the British flag, for we will take our country back.
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