Martin Daubney has erupted in a heated debate on GB News today over Prime Minister Keir Starmer's St George's Day comments about reclaiming the English flag.The fiery exchange came after Keir Starmer called for the English flag to be "reclaimed" from rioters who caused destruction following last summer's Southport stabbings.READ THE FULL STORY HERE
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00:00day, is it? My point is this. Why would you talk about, Sir Keir Starmer would never, ever
00:05talk about the problems with Scottish nationalism on St Andrew's Day. Never in a trillion years
00:10would he talk about Welsh nationalism being a toxic issue on St David's Day. Never. And yet
00:17St George's Day seems to be absolutely open season. And when will the metropolitan elites,
00:24I'm sorry to use that phrase, when will they understand that the flag is sacred, the day is
00:29sacred, the sentiment is sacred, and keep the blooming politics out of it. Well, hang on, first
00:33of all, the day isn't sacred. We're not talking about Easter or Christmas. It's sacred to English
00:38patriots. It's a no-go zone in terms of politics. The same as Armistice Day, the same as D-Day. It is
00:44a day to be celebrated as our national day. No, it's not sacred, it's not Easter, it's not Christmas,
00:49it's not a religious festival. Try telling that to English patriots who feel greatly aggrieved by this
00:54today. I don't think you understand what it means to be an English patriot. If we're having this
00:58conversation, I sincerely don't. Well, I mean, OK, if you were to talk about patriotism,
01:03that I am pleased to be British rather than proud to be British, because I had no say in actually
01:09being British. But I am really pleased to be part of this country. So in that sense, I would be a
01:15patriot. But on something like this, when you talk about he wouldn't do it in Scotland, he wouldn't do
01:20it in Wales. If we just had had riots last year in Cardiff or in Glasgow that were brought about
01:28with flags being waved, I think he would call out that flag too. He is the Prime Minister of the
01:33United Kingdom. What about when we have seen in the past very, very toxic anti-English racism from
01:39Scottish nationalists? Not a peep. Absolute, you know, absolute tumbleweed. You know, crickets from the
01:46Prime Minister on that. You have to admit, English nationalism is singularly targeted in this way. And I'm
01:53afraid, gentlemen, if I feel like I'm kind of St George-splaining to you, I think you're both missing the
01:58point. I don't think you understand how important St George's Day is and how aggrieved people feel by the fact
02:04that this has become so politicised. Not today. Leave it alone. Save it for another day. But the
02:10flag has been hijacked. It's been hijacked by certain groups. Southport was the last time that
02:14we saw it. You're doing it again, mate. Well, look, if you hijack the flag for what I would call not
02:20patriotic reasons, I don't think ripping up the country, trying to burn things down is a patriotic
02:25thing to do. If you're saying those acts were committed under the flag, you're attacking everybody
02:29who loves that flag. That's my point. No, you're not. You're attacking people who have
02:34misappropriated the flag. So attack them for their actions, not the fact they're under a flag.
02:39By the way, were they even carrying the flag? Where's the evidence? You've shown on screen
02:44Emily Thornberry, who had a go at the flag. Who lost their job over this nonsense. And that was
02:48absolutely right. Absolutely right. What the flag should be is a celebration of England. It should
02:54be used at England football. Don't tell us what the flag should be. Don't tell us how the flag is
02:58misappropriated and somehow blame the entire population for being the worst of the world. I'm not blaming the entire
03:02population. No, that's what is happening here. I'm blaming the people misappropriated it.
03:06Listen mate, everyone in Southport was immediately far right. Immediately. Everyone. And that went
03:11nationwide under this flag of St George. On St George's Day, here we are again having the same
03:16conversation. Leave it out. But people at Southport were far right. Not everybody I accept, but a lot
03:24of people there were far right. And under the symbol of a flag, and I call that misappropriating our flag.
03:30And I call this, you know, a conversation that's very, very damaging for the English national psyche.
03:35The only nationalism, by the way, that it's fine to besmirch. It's fine to dissect, cross-examine,
03:42and criticise on its sacred day. I put it back to you again, Chris Oak. This would never ever in a
03:47billion years happen on St Andrew's Day or St David's Day or any other nation. It might be if he was
03:52Scottish or Welsh. He may feel he wants to speak out on certain issues to do with the flag.
03:56This is the argument. It might be if he was in English or something like that. But there's a lot of
04:00people who would still believe that a lot of people would have aרivariac,
04:01which have those little things for the people there. One of them that you have a lot of people
04:04have a lot of people who've needed that, and they're just a lot of people who've been
04:06a happy place. And that'd be like a lot of them. There's a lot of people who've been
04:06found a lot of people who were made, but a lot of people are a lot of people who won
04:11be. And until and so, when they're a lot of people who've been here, he will have a lot of people who've been
04:15in a conversation with a character that's going through. He's a lot of people who've been doing this to