A Labour mega-donor has sparked yet another flag row after unveiling a 30ft banner of the Palestinian flag in the leafy Cotswolds town of Stroud.
Dale Vince, who donated £5million to Labour in the run-up to the last General Election, is attaching the flag to Ecotricity’s HQ in Stroud.
Just 70 miles away in Birmingham, a Labour-run council is tearing down Union Jacks and St George’s crosses from lampposts amid supposed safety risks.
However, Stroud is far from united behind Mr Vince’s decision to fly the Palestinian flag.
Speaking to The Telegraph, local resident Marcus said: “It’s out of order. I don’t think that flag should be flown in Stroud.”
Another Stroud resident, Jeff Cloves, added: “It’s a bit hard to get angry with someone with a peace flag.”
Mr Vince, who is outspoken on other issues such as climate change and Brexit, previously unveiled an EU flag at Ecotricity’s Stroud HQ.
However, Mr Vince is also a Labour mega-donor, having handed Sir Keir Starmer’s party £5million ahead of the last General Election.
The 63-year-old also spent years bankrolling disruptors-in-chief at Just Stop Oil.
After switching his support from the eco-troublemakers to the Labour Party, Mr Vince has also become rather outspoken about the plight of Palestinians.
But it is not the first time Mr Vince has flown a flag outside his Ecotricity HQ in Stroud.
As Theresa May botched Britain’s Brexit negotiations, a gloating Mr Vince unveiled a 10-metre EU flag.
In a Facebook post, Mr Vince said: “We’ve dodged a bullet, twice in the last week or so, when we nearly left the EU, or were ‘supposed to’ but we haven’t.”
However, Brexiteers were the ones left smiling in the end, with the UK leaving the Brussels bloc less than a year later.