The council argued the displays created highway safety risks, constituted trespass, and obstructed workers tasked with removing them. The injunction applies to both identified activists and "persons unknown," allowing authorities to pursue anyone who continues attaching flags to lampposts or painting patriotic imagery on public roads. According to the judgment, council workers repeatedly removed the flags only to find replacements appearing shortly afterward. The council stressed the injunction does not prevent residents from flying England or Union flags on private property, nor does it stop the authority itself from displaying the flags at County Hall. Instead, the order is limited to attaching flags to public highway infrastructure and painting flag imagery on roads.