New "British Flag"

[StonehamPark]

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

Ah it's not that interesting. Along the lines of:
USA Flag with the writing
'Being British
Drive a German Car
Drink at an Irish Pub
Drink Belgian Beer
Grab a Curry
Sit on Swedish Furniture
& Watch a Japanese telly!'

 

[Silent Bob]

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.

Britain is a landmass named by the Romans, predating England, Scotland, or Wales by a long distance and having the benefit of physically existing. Don't see how that makes it a non entity.

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

If Scotland leave the union but keeps the pound, does that make us the poundzone?

 

[stripeyshark]

Ah it's not that interesting. Along the lines of:
USA Flag with the writing
'Being British
Drive a German Car
Drink at an Irish Pub
Drink Belgian Beer
Grab a Curry
Sit on Swedish Furniture
& Watch a Japanese telly!'

All is good except for the USA flag. Really cannot stand that country.

 

[Worthingite]

And a bottle of Buckfast a fiver.

and a ten bag of smack would be easily identifiable as a tenner obviously!!

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

I thought everyone knew. We always sing "there ain't no dragon on the union jack, do da, do da" when we play Cardiff, Swansea or Wrexham. At least we used to.

i remember the welsh fans singing that at wembley back in the 70's

i think they were rather proud of the fact

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

The flag of Northern Ireland is a red herring. It's not a "Northern Irish cross". There's no such thing.

It was adopted by the Government of Northern Ireland and used officially only between 1953 and 1972. It is a mix of the flag of England, the Red Hand of the Province of Ulster, a six pointed Star to represent the six counties of Ulster that make up Northern Ireland and the Crown of the United Kingdom.

superb flag that!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

If Scotland leave the union but keeps the pound, does that make us the poundzone?

I prefer

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Doesn't get any more British than this:-

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

I thought the whole point of the South Saxons was that they weren't British.

And to balance your claim that the flag of Sussex is basically West Sussex blue, here's the alternative version that flies out our way:-

 

[Stat Brother]

I thought the whole point of the South Saxons was that they weren't British.

And to balance your claim that the flag of Sussex is basically West Sussex blue, here's the alternative version that flies out our way:-

Sorry Lord B, but I don't recognise that, 'lesser' flag.

 

[severnside gull]

Indeed.
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.

 

[Stat Brother]

My dad always used to say:-

We'll never be an Island all the time we are connected Wales, Scotland, and Yorkshire.

 

[Falkor]

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Sorry Lord B, but I don't recognise that, 'lesser' flag.

The one that you are displaying was designed in 2008. Mine at least has some history to it.

 

[Working class pride]

The one that you are displaying was designed in 2008. Mine at least has some history to it.

Its certainly older than 2008 as Sussex CCC were using the blue background and yellow martlets in the 80's and I think they always have used those colours and Sussex is the oldest county cricket club

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Its certainly older than 2008 as Sussex CCC were using the blue background and yellow martlets in the 80's and I think they always have used those colours and Sussex is the oldest county cricket club

The Cricket Club's badge/flag has always included a shield.

West Sussex has been blue since the 1880s. East Sussex has been red and gold for just as long.

 

[Buzzer]

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

Buckfast will become the official currency and there will be 100 Irn-Bru to the Buckfast. There will be parity with the rest of the UK 1 Irn-Bru = 1 pence and 1 Buckfast = £1

The similarities won't end there. The £50 note is hardly ever seen or used in the UK and Scotland will replace it with a lettuce seeing as it's as rare as a World Cup appearance.

 

[Working class pride]

West Sussex has been blue since the 1880s. East Sussex has been red and gold for just as long.[/QUOTE]

I always think of West Sussex and East Sussex as just a council thing but actually there is only Sussex, as in the old Kingdom of Sussex. The colours of that Kingdom being yellow / orange and blue. I also went to the Sussex regiment museum and I recall seeing something about the regiment fighting for William of Orange in Ireland and that is where the orangemen took their colours from. Or it may have been the other way around

 

[Lord Bracknell]

William of Orange (King William III) got his name from the House of Orange-Nassau (Huis van Oranje-Nassau), the Dutch royal dynasty founded in 1515 as a result of the marriage of Hendrik III of Nassau-Breda from Germany and Claudia of Châlon-Orange from French Burgundy.

 

[looney]

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.

Not really. The thing with History is we have shitloads of it and over a 1000 years of not having any other fucker try to re-write it for us. This creates a sense of ease in which the national flag gets worn as underwear, duvets or table cloths. which would horrify more insecure nations if their flag was treated in that way. Hence although you have a valid point it is very unbritish to get worked up about it.

 

[glasfryn]

Why bother? This would do nicely.

this is absolutely correct
the Welsh hate the English in fact they each other (north/south) give me the chainsaw and I will do the job of cutting off that lump at the Severn bridge ...........pity really the country is great its the ...............