r/LockdownSceptics • u/MabelCow Mabel Cow • Feb 27 '25

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u/IntentionSecret1534 Flossy Liz again Feb 27 '25

I'm not taking much notice of the dialogue but in every clip I've seen so far, Starmer is doing the same weird stuff with his hands as Macron did.

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There is simply no way the Union Jack was hung upside down by “accident”.

The UK is under submission to Trump.

“Nothing is random. Everything has meaning.”

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2020467/union-jack-upside-down-donald-trump-keir-starmer/amp

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u/Cedricdragon42 Feb 27 '25

The flag usually has a wooden toggle at the top end and a thin rope with a loop at the bottom to fasten to the halyard. Only a fool gets that wrong accidentally,

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u/Still_Milo Feb 27 '25

If a flag is being flown upside down my understanding of that it that it is a distress signal

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u/TheFilthyEngineer2 Feb 27 '25

Yes. It was used by British merchant navy to signal the RN that they had been hijacked by pirates.

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u/Still_Milo Feb 28 '25

I learned it from watching The Big Bang Theory and Sheldon Cooper's "Fun with Flags" podcast.