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In case you have no time in your short and finite life to watch a three-minute video—or you're at work, whatever—here's what happens: some bloke from the far-right group the North West Infidels (NWI), in a balaclava and some gloves (safety and racist anonymity first, lads), says a sort of semi-focused anti-EU screed ("The European Union is corrupt to the core," he says. "It's here to take away our nationality, our identity, our free speech, and our sovereignty") and then, to make a point, tries to set fire to the EU flag. Five times.The reason the flag does not burn is due to EU-approved sanctions about fire retardation, making the flag non-flammable, the same way it's quite hard to set fire to a sofa. In short, what the EU has done here—from afar—what the EU has done here is absolutely 'megged the NWI. They have hit the NWI exactly where it hurts—nobody who isn't racist has ever tried to set a flag on fire, have they? Setting a flag on fire is a very "I am a racist" thing to do—and they have done them with continental élan. The EU is Zola and the NWI is Julian Dicks. They've done them, twice over. The NWI is on the floor looking up dazed at the sky and saying "Who hit me?" They are in pieces.Which is a shame for our hero, because he definitely bought the flag specifically for use in this video. Look at the neat folds—just out of shot is the cellophane packaging, probably bearing a short message about how hard it is to set this item on fire. You cannot easily buy an EU flag in Bolton. You cannot easily buy an EU flag anywhere, is the thing, because unless you were going to set fire to it or have a model EU at a secondary school, there is literally no need for anyone to have a small EU flag in their possession. You have to go on Amazon and buy one, really, and even then—unless you have Prime—you're going to have to wait 1–3 business days before it's delivered. A lot of planning went into this fuck up.
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