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- Raise the Colours Oxfordshire organiser Ben Cullen head- butted a highways worker - RTC Oxfordshire fixed trackers to the vehicles used by highways staff, then used this to find out their home addresses — which have been published online, and repeated to staff with threatening messages; - Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings and do not travel alone for fear of attacks; - Highways staff working on streetlight maintenance, not flag removal, have been spat on and abused by RTC supporters; - Cullen and his partner Trudy Wells posted the office addresses and phone numbers of highways depots online, leading to comments suggesting “hanging council workers from those same lamp posts”; - A highways contractor's sponsorship of a children’s football club is being rethought after concerns that children could be targeted. - One highways manager said that ensuring her staff's safety in the face of RTC intimidation is “often over 50% of her working week... She is fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media without her consent.”

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- Raise the Colours Oxfordshire organiser Ben Cullen head- butted a highways worker - RTC Oxfordshire fixed trackers to the vehicles used by highways staff, then used this to find out their home addresses — which have been published online, and repeated to staff with threatening messages; - Highways staff now wear unbranded PPE, work in unbranded vehicles, wear face coverings and do not travel alone for fear of attacks; - Highways staff working on streetlight maintenance, not flag removal, have been spat on and abused by RTC supporters; - Cullen and his partner Trudy Wells posted the office addresses and phone numbers of highways depots online, leading to comments suggesting “hanging council workers from those same lamp posts”; - A highways contractor's sponsorship of a children’s football club is being rethought after concerns that children could be targeted. - One highways manager said that ensuring her staff's safety in the face of RTC intimidation is “often over 50% of her working week... She is fearful of being followed home, tracked and exposed on social media without her consent.”
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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 (jbond@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2026 20:25:17 JST Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸

Remember all those patriotic flags on UK lamp posts?
They were always a temporary thing, now they're in tatters. That just created work for the councils to remove them from unauthorised locations. And this is what the council workers now have to deal with.

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