Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸: “Remember all those patriotic flags on UK lamp post…” — Plamenu

Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸@jbond@mastodon.social

Remember all those patriotic flags on UK lamp posts?

They were always a temporary thing, now they're in tatters. That just created work for the councils to remove them from unauthorised locations. And this is what the council workers now have to deal with.

- Raise the Colours Oxfordshire organiser Ben Cullen head-
butted a highways worker

- RTC Oxfordshire fixed trackers to the vehicles used by
highways staff, then used this to find out their home
addresses — which have been published online, and
repeated to staff with threatening messages;

- Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in
unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings and do not travel
alone for fear of attacks;

- Highways staff working on streetlight maintenance, not
flag removal, have been spat on and abused by RTC
supporters;

- Cullen and his partner Trudy Wells posted the office
addresses and phone numbers of highways depots online,
leading to comments suggesting “hanging council workers
from those same lamp posts”;

- A highways contractor's sponsorship of a children’s
football club is being rethought after concerns that children
could be targeted.

- One highways manager said that ensuring her staff's
safety in the face of RTC intimidation is “often over 50% of
her working week... She is fearful of being followed home,
tracked and exposed on social media without her consent.”

⁨Aug⁩ ⁨6⁩, ⁨2026⁩, ⁨07:07⁩en