I’m not a Labour voter anymore but I can’t see what’s wrong with the use of the flag, promoting veterans and straightening your tie at the cenotaph. What’s the issue here? Does anyone object to Sturgeon having the saltire pinned to her every time we clap eyes on her or Varadkar and his mates standing by the Tricolour? No they don’t and nor should they.
It's not that there's anything wrong with those things in and of themselves. It's what it reveals (or reaffirms) about this incarnation of the party. No ideas, no beliefs.
Standing next to a saltire after decades campaigning for an independent Scotland just backs up that that's what Sturgeon's all about.
Standing next to a union flag because a consultants told him northerners will like it makes Starmer look like an elitist phoney.