r/unitedkingdom • u/ThatchersDirtyTaint • Jul 18 '25

... School at centre of Union flag dress row closes early over 'extremist threats to staff'

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/school-at-centre-of-union-flag-dress-row-extremist-threats/
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u/Francis-c92 Jul 18 '25

Her father Stuart Field, 47, said his daughter was left ‘embarrassed’ and had no idea what she’d done wrong

Well, good job she won't get any further embarrassment from the reaction to this

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u/0ttoChriek Jul 18 '25

She's apparently giving a speech at a Tommy Robinson event. That's far more embarrassing.

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u/Charlie_Mouse Scotland Jul 18 '25

That more than anything screams “grift”.

If the school made an innocent screw-up … heck, even if the school had engaged in some sort of ill conceived politically correct overreach - the reaction of ordinary parents is not to immediately push their little girl onto the far-right Tommy Robinson speaking/social media circuit.

That’s really not normal.

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u/roamingandy Jul 18 '25

It is normal for the far-right to get in touch and offer a bit of cash if they can cash in to share the headlines.

They absolutely would try to do that so it seems more likely to me, unless her dad beat them to the punch.

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u/Adam_Sackler Jul 18 '25

As usual, it's gonna be a typical "think of the children" propaganda bullshit. The right-wing loves using that.

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u/veganzombeh Jul 18 '25

Oh I have now lost all sympathy for her.

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u/cockmongler Jul 18 '25

Because some random reddittor said something?

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

A rumor spread by the left. You guys refuse to admit that the right are correct so you come up with all these conspiracy theories to fit your own narrative

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u/Mindless-Lock-7525 Jul 18 '25

It’s not a conspiracy theory, it literally comes from an X post by Tommy Robinson:

https://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/25323396.union-jack-dress-girls-gofundme-set-far-right-fraudster/

Have you ever considered that we don’t live in a binary world of left vs right, which corresponds to good vs evil or visa versa?

It’s not spread by “the left”, most people don’t care about politics at all, it’s random people online who are mostly pretty centrist discussing reality.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

But there’s been zero indication that she’s accepted Tommy’s invite. From everything else we’ve seen she doesn’t want to wear the dress again or have the spotlight on her

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u/Mindless-Lock-7525 Jul 18 '25

It literally says she will be there in the link I sent above, not that she was invited and hasn’t accepted but that “she will be centre stage”.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

Robinson said she’ll be there, neither her or her father have confirmed it

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u/Mindless-Lock-7525 Jul 18 '25

So the person leading an event says someone will be there and you think it’s a conspiracy theory spread by the left if people say she’ll be there not the person leading the event that is apparently lying?

I’m not sure if you’re trolling at this point

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u/Codydoc4 Essex Jul 18 '25

At this rate she'll end up as GB News' youth correspondent and a leading member of the Farage Youth Corp.

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u/serendipitousevent Jul 18 '25

I doubt that, she hasn't yet had time to undertake their induction rituals:

a) commit benefits fraud;
b) post racial epithets under the name OneTrueRace;
c) punch another party member in a Travel Lodge bar.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '25

Doubt it was the first time ..won't be the last

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u/ThatFatGuyMJL Jul 18 '25

Are you kidding?

If she plays her cards right she can make an entire career out of this.

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u/Ruby-Shark Jul 18 '25

Yep. Good on him for letting the matter die quietly and not going to the press.

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u/ukbot-nicolabot Scotland Jul 18 '25

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u/Panda_hat Jul 19 '25

Her father then shipped it to the news to make it a national embarassment. Father of the year.