A fish and chip shop owner in London has been ordered by the local council to remove a mural featuring a Union Jack flag and the words “A Great British meal” from the side of his building after some locals complained it is “not appropriate for the area.”
The Daily Mail reports that the award-winning Golden Chippy in Greenwich received the removal order from the council after a “number of complaints about the mural” and the council deciding it constitutes an “unauthorised advert” in a “preservation area.”
Shop owner Chris Kanizi, who is from Cyprus, commented “It’s just something to put a smile on people’s faces. But the council said ‘this is a preservation area – you can’t have that and you’ve got to paint over it.'”
“They also said people had been complaining, but I don’t believe that. Everyone who has talked to me say they love it,” Kanizi added.
Local residents who were asked about it expressed support for the mural.
The council also previously forced Kanizi to remove a similar sign above the shop for the same reasons in 2016.
The owner has Kanizi has provided the council with pictures dating back to the 1940s, when the premises was a cafe, and included numerous large trade signs attached to the building.
Kanizi told reporters “I’m going to stick it out for as long as I can. They haven’t given me a date to paint over it yet, but they will.”
“I’ve got so many international customers. They all like taking a photo with the mural in the background,” he added.
Mark Simpson of the Reform Party visited the shop to express support.
Of course, it’s highly likely that some of the complaints are regarding the display of the British Union flag, which is now considered by many who live in the country to be some form of racist symbol.
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It isn’t uncommon for complaints about signs and adverts and such not to be about people giving a flying F about things like “conservation area”, but the content of the sign/advert. For example, in Brighton, a building that housed NGOs and community organizations (Community Base) tried to use a wall as advertising space in order to lower the rent for the NGOs. There wasn’t any problem till the Green Party used the advert space. Then suddenly a bunch of people realised that it was inappropriate for that area to have such a big space covered in an advert. The decision is actually made by a bunch of people in the local council, and if the local council skews towards one party or another, they will dislike anything that reminds them of an opposing party. Those planning permission decisions ought to be made by people who aren’t political at all, but for some reason, they are political.
The white world does not understand that they are being systematically wiped out: Culture, history, rights, religion, family, country, and individually.
The race that created the greatest civilisations through conquest is being destroyed without a fight.
Sad.
Brits let it happen.
Brits have to live with it.
You gave your country away.
You don’t take your country back.
No sympathy here.
I was in England for 4 years … councils were observed to be the bane of British society.
However, the black flag of the caliphate would be welcomed.
So, if few people complain, you have to remove the flag? is that legal? which law state that? shoud’nt they have to came with a proof of complains?
If so, I know a flag that will have to be removed, millions of complaints against.