Attitudes to flag flying in Britain

https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2018/11/26/one-four-brits-have-unfavourable-view-those-flying Quoting:

In 2014 Emily Thornberry was forced to resign from the shadow cabinet after tweeting a photo of a house in Rochester flying England flags, after many interpreted it “derogatory and dismissive”. Thornberry maintained that the tweet wasn’t meant to be insulting, and in any case her career has since recovered, having been shadow foreign secretary since 2016.

But a YouGov survey reveals that there are plenty of people who really do look down on people who fly the England flag from their home. Close to a quarter of Brits (24%) say they take an unfavourable view of such patriotism.

. . . A hard core of Brits seem to disapprove of flag flying in general. While one in three Brits (32%) are opposed to the flying of at least one flag, more than a third of this group (or 13% of all Brits) disapprove of the flying all four of the flags.

Class is a key distinction, with middle class people (those in the ABC1 social category) being more likely to disapprove of someone flying a flag than working class people (those in the C2DE category).  One third of middle class people (37%) disapprove of at least one of the flags listed being flown, compared to 23% of working class people.

. . . Welsh and Scottish people display a level of antipathy to the English flag that is not reciprocated by the English: