I was told to take down my union flag when I was at uni in 2000 in case it offended other people. I told them to ram it. I lived on edgware road and they were afraid it would offend the local muslim population. My arguement was that if they are living in the UK with a UK passport then they have no reason to snub the union flag.

I'd only put it up for the November ceremonies but I kept it up for another 6 months out of principle. If they don't like it they can fuck off somewhere else.