A taxi driver has hit back at his local council after it banned him from flying the British flag from his car.
Shropshire Council said that Basil Brockhurst, an ex-Armed Forces serviceman who runs Basil’s Taxi, said that flying the United Kingdom’s flag from his cab was “in breach of advertising standards”.
Mr Brockhurst wants to fly two flags on his car, one Union Flag bearing the sigil of his Army unit, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and a straightforward St George’s Cross with “England” emblazoned across the middle.
But the patriotic symbols do not comply with Shropshire Council’s Hackney Carriage and Private Vehicles Licensing Policy in 2023, which requires cabs not to display signage depicting “political, racial, cultural, sexual or potentially offensive language”.
Mr Brockhurst told GB News he received an email from the council on October 17 stating he had to remove the flags from his vehicle.
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He said: “I was not happy, I was quite perturbed. Thirty years of service to Queen and country in Northern Ireland, Iraq, then suddenly I’m told I cannot display the cross of St George or the Union Jack.”
GB News host Patrick Christys slammed the council’s decision, writing on social media: “This is an absolute disgrace. The Union Flag is our flag.
“Everywhere you go now there are Palestine and Ukraine flags. They are much more ‘divisive’. This country has lots its mind.”
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