Reader says Brighton has ‘never been so run-down’.

According to your account, the authorities removed St George’s flags from Brighton lampposts the next morning. Some moved even faster than that.

At 7.30 p.m., I saw a man climb a tall ladder and hang them from the lampposts along Madeira Drive.

Soon after he and his patriotic flaggers returned to their vehicle, a rival team of anti-patriotic anti-flaggers arrived on the site.

Their ladder wasn’t very long (health and safety concerns were raised), but by 8 p.m., the most of the flags had been removed again.

Flags are not tolerated in what one publication labelled “the woke capital of Britain” this week.

If only our authorities had a similar zero tolerance policy for the lowlifes that scribble graffiti and tagging on every wall.

If only they had the same zero tolerance for the beggars, grifters, and addicts who populate St James’s Street and other parts of the city.

Zero tolerance for illegal e-scooters and e-bikers whizzing recklessly about, cyclists riding on footways or through red signals, pavement parkers, litter louts, drunks lying comatose in doorways, tented enclaves, potholes and smashed paving slabs, music-maniacs walking around with boom boxes strapped to their backs,

Chuggers, hucksters, and amplified evangelists cry that we are all adulterers and sinners. I have never seen this city so run-down, filthy, and uncivilised.

On Thursday, the flags fluttering in the evening breeze cheered me briefly, possibly as a gesture of defiance against all of our time’s ideological folly, but the sense of urban gloom and misery quickly returned.

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