During the committee meeting, council officers outlined a report which included comments from the public about the flag.<\/p>\n
Six people gave their support to the painted flag, four people objected and two people gave mixed comments.<\/p>\n
Mike Fowler read a statement on behalf of Kunkler.<\/p>\n
“This is an overtly English sports bar which does not serve food,” he told the committee.<\/p>\n
“The red English cross on the outside of the building is an integral part of the identity of the pub.”<\/p>\n
Councillor Paul Oatway described the comment about the National Front as “ridiculous” and told the committee that only five people in Pewsey, which has a population of just under 4,000 people, had complained.<\/p>\n
Councillor Stuart Wheeler said people in Pewsey did not consider there was “any harm” from the flag and described the pub and its landlord as famous.<\/p>\n
The pub, known locally as the Moonies, was the inspiration for the play Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth, in which Mark Rylance starred, Wheeler said.<\/p>\n
“People come from all over the country to see where Micky Lay died on the doorstep, waiting for the pub to open,” he added.<\/p>\n
“This pub is famous. This pub enhances the environment, it does no harm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the committee meeting, council officers outlined a report which included comments from the public about the flag.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-534728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}