New "British Flag"

[Stat Brother]

Doesn't get any more British than this:-

Now all we need is some big boats to tow us out into the Channel.

 

[TottonSeagull]

I do think that is the most shockingly ignorant thing I've ever read on NSC. Please don't take offence, I'm not having a go at either of you, if you don't know then you don't know, but really at some stage in your education someone should have explained the make-up and the history of your country's flag. Sorry, I'm sounding a bit 'Daily Mail' here, but whether you think the Union flag is a thing of beauty or a symbol of oppression for a British person not to know its history is very sad.

Is there any need for this comnent? You come across as pompous twat! Really, the most ignorant thing you have ever read on NSC?

 

[TottonSeagull]

Britain is just a land mass named by the Romans. A non entity!

Three great nations exist

England
Scotland
Wales

All already have their own flag.
Just scrap the Union flag of aristocracy and all is well.

Well, one great nation and Scotland and Wales!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

This is the flag of the 9 counties Province of Ulster:-

 

[Fred Oliver - Legend]

The dragon should be nowhere near the flag.

better

 

[fly high]

Britain is just a land mass named by the Romans. A non entity!

Three great nations exist

England
Scotland
Wales

All already have their own flag.
Just scrap the Union flag of aristocracy and all is well.

But has Wales ever been a nation except under English rule? Before the Edward I conquest it was just a collection of principalities, except for a very brief 7 years in 1057-63 so without the English, Wales as a country would not exist.

 

[Triggaaar]

Depending which definition of the terms state or nation you adopt you can make a case but there is always a definition that defeats your argument (the beauty of the English language).

Indeed.

Whether they are sovereign states independant in law is something else entirely.

I'm going by the OP's comment 'up to now Wales has no representive part in the British flag as it is not a country in its own right'. It is no more or less a country than England or Scotland.

 

[stripeyshark]

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

I thought the diagonal red cross represented Wales.

It represented the whole of Ireland when It was under British rule, not just Northern Ireland as another poster suggested.

 

[Bruntburger]

But has Wales ever been a nation except under English rule? Before the Edward I conquest it was just a collection of principalities, except for a very brief 7 years in 1057-63 so without the English, Wales as a country would not exist.

I don't know but Wales is clearly a proud nation with its own language and customs.

The river Severn is the border of two different nations as far as I'm concerned.

 

[StonehamPark]

Do you not agree?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I just want to know what the Scots are going to do for a currency if they vote for independence.

I say we kick them out of the pound and leave them to either invent their own (the Poond?) or join the Euro. If it still exists by then

 

[salty seagull]

I just want to know what the Scots are going to do for a currency if they vote for independence.

I say we kick them out of the pound and leave them to either invent their own (the Poond?) or join the Euro. If it still exists by then

Oooh, you are awful...........but I like you.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Perhaps they can scrap coins altogether and just use whisky and shortbread in tartan tins as bartering currency.

 

[stripeyshark]

Do you not agree?

Your post was blank on my screen. I think we should have some sort of flag. So i suppose i don't agree, no.

 

[StonehamPark]

Your post was blank on my screen. I think we should have some sort of flag. So i suppose i don't agree, no.

Haha, fair enough. The link to the flag.
http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-being-British-flag.jpg

 

[stripeyshark]

Haha, fair enough. The link to the flag.
http://static.themetapicture.com/media/funny-being-British-flag.jpg

Still doesn't work, please describe your flag... I wanna know what it is now!

 

[Worthingite]

Perhaps they can scrap coins altogether and just use whisky and shortbread in tartan tins as bartering currency.

Would that make a battered Mars Bar the equivalent of a £50 note?

 

[stripeyshark]

Would that make a battered Mars Bar the equivalent of a £50 note?

Just bought a share in Mars.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Would that make a battered Mars Bar the equivalent of a £50 note?

And a bottle of Buckfast a fiver.