Since last summer a lot of flags appeared all over the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Raise_the_Colours https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-raised-the-flags/

The ambiguity is part of the charm. Something that reveals more about the beholders than the artist makes for stimulating conversation and discovery.

Even the new positioning of the art on a plinth in some open space is enigmatic. If it were a critique of the powers that be, why would officialdom collaborate in propping it up?

Interpretations, in my art?

Seriously, this is part of the fun of art. Neither of you are wrong for reading different messages into it.

Exactly.

Communists are blinded by the flag with the hammer and sickle.

Teachers and doctors are blinded by trans ideology and its flag.

Examples abound, but wanna transgressor blanksy knows who butters his bread.

Flags overwhelmingly represent nations, groups considering themselves nations, that were nations or have some kind of individual governmental status.