The new hero of the online right, GB News and Talk is Shaun Remmer, a supply teacher who, as GB News reports, “was fired from his job after he was ‘snitched on’ for hoisting the flag in his North Yorkshire hometown”.
“Father-of-one Shaun Remmer from Thirsk lost his job as a teaching assistant at Welburn Hall School in York after raising the banners to symbolise the ‘unity’ of Britain,” the channel said, with Renner telling viewers: “I have not hidden myself or wore a mask, so everyone knows it is me putting up the flags. I get people coming up to me in the supermarket telling me that it looks amazing.”
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It’s a tragic tale, alright – albeit it not one rooted in any way in reality. Renner wasn’t “fired from his job” – as a supply teacher, he was working for a temp agency and one school didn’t want him any more, uncomfortable over social media posts that he says focused on “problems we have in the country such as young girls getting raped.” Remmer is still with the agency and can be sent elsewhere.
Remmer put up more than 150 flags across a town of fewer than 5,000 people, including, for no apparent reason, the Ulster flag last flown in Northern Ireland in 1973. He didn’t have planning permission for a single one, and a number are said to have obstructed vital road signs.
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