The wisdom of David Mitchell

It has been recently reported that the police have asked the government to consider banning flag burning on public demonstrations.

There's been a fair bit of outcry and alot of people crying about free speech. For the most sensible argument against the stupidity of such a proposal we turn to David Mitchell who said the following on the excellent Mock The Week (i've paraphrased it because i don't have a photographic memory) :

"They seem to be under the illusion when they are setting fire to the union jack that they are burning OUR flag. Well, I'm sorry to dissapoint them, but they went out and brought that flag with their hard earned cash and so in fact they are not burning OUR flag, they are burning THEIR flag"

Nuff said.