You see, the thing is that the English flag isn't actually used for anything other than sports. The Union Jack is used as the flag of the country, because the country is the United Kingdom.

This is what creates the unique usage of the English flag by racists.

This isn't something that is just an "internet forum" thing either. This is in the mainstream discussion regularly, year after year after year.

Here's a bunch of racists talking down a black man raising issues about this topic. Reminder that Farage is known to have drawn the National Front logo on all his schoolbooks in school so his reference to them in argument here is telling.

And we don't just have this discussion about the English flag, but the Union Jack too

I'm fucking bored of it to be honest I could dig up something that refers to this discussion year after year after year. But it is what it is...

EDIT: Fuck it here's another for you