It's just the way this country is at the moment, Battlenuts. There was an incident, I don't know if it was isolated or not, but a pub I worked in a few years ago, we had English and Indian flags all over the place and the local council actually came in and removed only the English flags.
That's the one thing I like about your country (and I'm not trying to start something with that statement, that's a whole other personal issue) and it's that you're passionate about your country.
And you're allowed to be.
That's something we just can't have over here.