But to be fair, the UK spends lots of money showing the flag in other ways…some aviation events that come to mind…
the BBMF, Queens Birthday flyovers, Red Arrows, etc.

All of which the present government are doing their best to make us feel ashamed of. Regardless of how hard the politicians try they will not erode my pride in being English. As far as I am concerned I am English by birth, British due to an act of union drawn up by two monarchs centuries before I was born and European under duress. If God intended us to be European he wouldn’t have put the English channel where it is.