Your’s is the stupid, ignorant and prejudiced comment.
Being proud of our culture, country and history is what makes people like me patriotic.
Those who mask up, to conceal their identity, adopt a uniform and then disrupt communities and those trying to protect and serve them aren’t. Any more than those who say they are ashamed of our history.
Pretending that waving a flag turns anyone into a patriot is a desperate fig leave of an excuse to cover hatred of our country. Not the country they want it to be, but the country that it is. Patriots value the past, present and future. Not just the tunnel vision of what their politics, and prejudices, shows them.
Whenever I see bunches of people with whom I share almost nothing using my flag to promote their views I feel nothing but disgust. There’s a few redundant rubber boats available that they could use to get to somewhere where they could establish this utopia they believe is available if only they could be in charge. I’d supply a few biscuits and a push out to sea! If they get into difficulties then there’s always the RNLI waiting to help.