Cross Colours Uk

Operation Raise the Colours is a 2025 political campaign that started in the United Kingdom of displaying the Flag of England and the Union Jack in public places. The campaign began in August 2025. It has involved tying flags to lamp-posts and painting the Saint George's Cross onto mini.

Operation "Raise the Colours" has spread the St. George's Cross and Union Jack flags across public spaces in the U.K., hailed by supporters as patriotism and condemned by critics as extremism. In the center of Stevenage, a so-called "new town" north of London that grew in the mid-20th century, the St George's Cross flies from the balconies of flats and outside pubs.

Near a hotel. "Operation Raise the Colours" has seen England's St. George's Cross pop up all over this divided country in recent weeks.

Plot to raise hundreds more flags on England's streets: Army of patriotic 'Operation Raise the Colours' activists vow to defy council bans with St George's Cross displays. Why are St George's flags being put up and roundabouts painted and why is it controversial? Red crosses believed to be part of 'Operation Raise the Colours' online movement backed by far. Founded in 1989, streetwear brand Cross Colours has always used fashion as a form of protest.

With its bright dynamic designs, social messaging and hip-hop influence, the brand was created to unite Black and brown communities during a time of national unrest, fighting racial injustice, police brutality and the war on drugs. Rooted in producing "Clothing Without Prejudice," their mission proves. Cross Colours debuted in 1989, at a time when harmful and hateful messaging was being spewed towards the Black community amidst the ill.

Weeks later, the suburbs of Weoley Castle and Northfield in Birmingham had a mixture of the St George Cross and union jacks hanging from every lamp.