{"id":14962,"date":"2025-11-04T02:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/beyond-ironic-reform-led-council-says-flags-must-come-down-so-christmas-lights-can-go-up\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:34:17","slug":"beyond-ironic-reform-led-council-says-flags-must-come-down-so-christmas-lights-can-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/beyond-ironic-reform-led-council-says-flags-must-come-down-so-christmas-lights-can-go-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Beyond ironic\u2019: Reform-led council says flags must come down so Christmas lights can go up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nshorts-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nshorts-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-headline\">\u2018Beyond ironic\u2019: Reform-led council says flags must come down so Christmas lights can go up<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-summary\">Kent county council says union flags and flags of St George must come off street lights because of safety concerns A Reform-led council has ruled that union and St George\u2019s flags must come down in order for a village\u2019s traditional Christmas lights to go ahead, in a decision described as \u201cbeyond ironic\u201d.Kent county council \u2013 whose leader once vowed not to remove flags put up \u201cunilaterally by the people of Kent\u201d \u2013 told Harrietsham parish council that flags must come down from street lights before festive lights could go up because of safety concerns. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/nov\/03\/beyond-ironic-reform-led-council-says-flags-must-come-down-so-christmas-lights-can-go-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nshorts-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"nshorts-audio-section\" style=\"margin-top:15px;padding:10px;background:#f5f5f5;border-radius:5px\"><strong>Listen:<\/strong> <audio controls style=\"width:100%;margin:10px 0\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:5px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&#038;tl=en&#038;client=tw-ob&#038;q=Kent+county+council+says+union+flags+and+flags+of+St+George+must+come+off+street+lights+because+of+safety+concerns+A+Reform-led+council+has+ruled+that+union+and+St+George%E2%80%99s+flags+must+come+down+in+o\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#0073aa;text-decoration:none\">\u2193 Download Audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts \u2018Beyond ironic\u2019: Reform-led council says flags must come down so Christmas lights can go up Kent county council says union flags and flags of St George must come off street lights because of safety concerns A Reform-led council has ruled that union and St George\u2019s flags must come down in order for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14963,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14962\/revisions\/14963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}