“I’m proud of our flag as a patriotic symbol of our nation,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer wrote on X yesterday, speaking the most unimaginable gibberish. “Like lots of people I’ve proudly got one up at home.” Really? Do lots of people actually have a flag up at home? Where? On a mast in the front garden? Framed above the mantlepiece? Draped over the bed so that their future children can be conceived on it?
He’s a supporter of flags? Incredible. Who exactly opposes flags, which group objects to the existence of symbols on fabric? Who has ever questioned whether flags are patriotic, or that they’re a symbol of the nation? What kind of mind-scrambled nonsense was this?
Cooper, like Starmer, is a deeply intelligent human being. She can grasp the intricacies of an issue with extraordinary speed and comprehend the crucial element. If you were to see her for the first time in this interview, you would conclude that she is a maniac. Flags drive Labour politicians mad.
It was striking that this seemed so ordinary. He took it out for football tournaments and St George’s Day. He did not seem desperate to prove anything. He then went on to say something beautiful and important.
By mentioning Orwell, Ferguson was positioning himself in a specific progressive heritage. The 1940 essay he referenced urged the British left to accept and embrace patriotism. This was partly because of its tremendous animating power: “One cannot see the modern world as it is unless one recognises the overwhelming strength of patriotism.”
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Progressive patriotism is open, diverse and welcoming. It is grounded in shared experience and shared identity, not blood and soil. But it is also something else, which is rarely articulated. It is bottom-up, rather than top-down. It blossoms from personal experience. It emerges from our individual lives, not from the demands of the press or the judgement of our neighbours.
Ironically, Starmer and Cooper’s reaction actually makes them look less connected to the country than simply saying nothing at all. But if they look towards their backbenches, they’ll discover a better way of doing things. Ferguson showed a far finer grasp of what patriotism looks like. They’d do well to learn from him.
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