Our right to fly our flag

I couldn't quite decide if the angry letter denouncing Telford and Wrekin's new flag policy was genuinely from Michael Carey or someone playing a joke on him. Whatever the case, it was a great read.

The irony of the claim that not flying the EU logo was a denial of his citizen's rights was superb.

I take the view that I'm proud to be an Englishman and I'm absolutely delighted to see my national flag properly displayed in its rightful place.

It was only pernicious, politically correct hooey which so terrified our town councils (or in Telford's case the undemocratic bias of a handful of councillors) that stopped the Cross of St George being flown as a matter of course.

None of our neighbours suffer such silliness. They all fly their national flags with pride - and rightly so.

I would defy the devil himself to label me a xenophobe or a racist, I am neither. But I am an Englishman. I see no reason to be bashful about it and having observed the worst excesses of communism, I love democracy.

I could therefore, never aspire to love the EU because it continues to represent a stifling and unaccountable bureaucracy, funded by little guys like me.

I don't hate it, I just don't want it and anyone with half an ounce of common sense knows that were the electorate to be afforded a referendum, the resounding majority wouldn't want it either.

Robert Jenkins, Stirchley