Welcome all you wonderful people to the Neil Oliver channel.

I love to see your comments. I love to know I'm surrounded by such a grand bunch of people who think for themselves.

People who question what are told and are damn funny to boot.

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Okay, now it's time to see what side of the fence you find yourself upon.

Funny things flags.

Britain hasn't really been a country especially enthusiastic about flying its own.

Union flag bunting at royal events and such.

But unlike, say, the United States of America, where private individuals have been in the habit of having flagpoles

outside their own homes, stars and stripes snapping proudly in the breeze, daily ceremonies

in schoolyards of raising and saluting the flag. Brits have always been more reticent about such

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