A mural of Britannia in my home town, Southend (Hilda Ogden would have called it a muriel)

 

Is the council in once ultra-safe Tory stronghold Southend now Lib or Lab? And do they allow patriotism? A Liberal council this week ordered a man who painted the front of his house with the St George's cross to paint over it.

It's a Britannia who looks like the cover of a 1950s pulp thriller but why not?