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Saint Edmund’s day flag

October 25th, 2007

St Edmund Flag £7.99

The 20th November is St Edmund’s day. There is a campaign by BBC Suffolk to make him the patron Saint of England again started by radio Suffolk

The flag was designed earlier this century and is sold under license.

Here is a picture of it flying over Portman Road the home of Ipswich football club

Wikipedia says this about the saint:

Edmund the Martyr (841–20 November 869) was a King of East Anglia.[1] He succeeded to the East Anglian throne in 855, while still a boy.[2] In or around 870, Edmund was defeated in battle by the Great Heathen Army, he was captured, tortured, and he died the death of a martyr.[3] He is recognised as a saint and a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Anglican Communion.

He is seen as the patron saint of kings, pandemics, the Roman Catholic diocese of East Anglia, the English county of Suffolk, torture victims, and wolves.[4][5] He was a patron saint of all England until the mid-14th century,[5] when Edward III replaced him by associating Saint George with the Order of the Garter.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_the_Martyr#External_links

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Where are all the England flags?

October 18th, 2007

A good question from this political blogger.

Unlike in the football World Cup, England are in the final of the rugby equivalent. However, the football World Cup leads to English flags being draped wherever they can be. There seems to be a lack of flags for the rugby.

We have sold plenty of additional South African flags, both the new colourful type and the Old Republican design but we have not really noticed an upsurge in flags for the rugby.

Strange.

Slough town council to fly English flag despite stiff opposition

October 12th, 2007

I honestly cant thing of one other country where an application to fly the national flag on the national day would result in the accusation  “This smacks of petty nationalism and could divide the community.” The latter comment made by Rob Anderson, Slough’s Labour Group leader. You would have to say after such a comment what an idiot that man is.

Another comment  on the story

But India-born Professor Vijaya Gupta, founder of the Slough Senior Citizens Group, said: “Regionalism signifies diversity, and can cause havoc. We saw what happened in India as a result of the Partition. England is part of the United Kingdom and I think the Union flag is enough. It covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.”

Hmmm I wonder how many trips Mr Gupta has taken to Scotland where they refuse to fly the Union jack, or Waes even. In Northern ireland the Union Flag is itself a symbol of division.

Here is the full story from icBerkshire

Praise be to Google!

October 12th, 2007

Having erased the entire database I have resurrected a few posts courtesey of Google’s cache service.

Not a good week for the EU flag

October 12th, 2007

In addition to the below story we have one from the blog Wonko the sane

 

Telford & Wrekin Council are taking down the EU rag from their offices and replacing it with the Cross of St George.

The current Leader of the Council, Andrew Eade, campaigned successfully for the British flag to be put on the council offices a few years ago when the Liebour traitors who were in power previously took it down.  However, my own continued attempts to get the English flag flying in place of the blue rag have been unsuccessful until now because, despite claiming the decision as all their own idea, it was me that spoke personally to one of the cabinet members and asked for this to be done a matter of days after they won the election.

I don’t mind not getting any of the credit anyway, it’s a victory for both pro-English and anti-EU movements.

Mind you both stories come from Euro-Sceptic blogs

No EU flags at the proms

October 12th, 2007

Daniel Hannan at the Telegraph remarks on the lack of EU flags at the prom concertsLast night, I counted two Euro-flags in the Albert Hall – and none in the parallel concerts at Hyde Park, Swansea, Carrickfergus or Middlesborough. The most common banner was, of course, the Union flag, followed by the individual flags of the home nations. Then, in great profusion, came the standards of the other Anglosphere countries, including the Irish tricolour.

Then the more recherché flags: Colombia, Catalonia, the Vatican and so on. If you were wondering what the enormous yellow flags with black lions were, they are the banner of England’s old ally Flanders – and their sheer quantity, not just in the hall but in the park outside, perhaps tells us something about the approaching dissolution of Belgium.

What are we to infer from the paucity of Euro-flags? Have the Euro-enthusiasts simply given up on British public opinion? And, if so, is it because they believe they have lost, or because – now that they have ruled out a referendum – they no longer care whether we agree with them or not?

Personally I have never noticed any, just Union Flags with a few home country flags smattered about, not that i watch the proms at all.

‘Racist’ Swedish flag banned from primary school

October 12th, 2007

From the Swedish Local

A school principal in southern Sweden has banned pupils from posing for class photos wearing national team shirts containing Swedish flags.Since national flags may be perceived by some as xenophobic, eighth grade pupils in Karlshamn have been ordered to wear less inflammatory garb for a photo to be published in the school yearbook.

The report goes on to say:

But Blondell stuck to his guns, arguing that the pupils risked inadvertently earning themselves a bad reputation. People could begin speculating about “the racists from Karlshamn” once the yearbook began being distributed in the Malmö area, he said.

Which just goes to prove that this nuttiness goes on in other countries not just the UK.

You can buy the Swedish flag here

History of the Irish Tricolour

October 12th, 2007

Thanks to William Murphy from ‘the streets of Dublin’

 I had not realized that the orange represented the supporters of William of orange.

The national flag of the Ireland, also known as the tricolour, is a vertical tricolour of green (at the hoist), white, and orange. The flag proportion is 1:2 (length twice the width). The green is representative of the older Gaelic tradition while the orange represents the supporters of William of Orange. The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the two cultures.
First introduced by Thomas Francis Meagher in 1848, it was not until the Easter Rising of 1916, when it was raised above the General Post Office in Dublin, that the tricolour came to be regarded as the national flag[citation needed]. The flag was adopted in 1919 by the Irish Republic during its war of independence, and subsequently by the Irish Free State (1922–1937), later being given constitutional status under the 1937 Constitution of Ireland, which established the Republic.

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Our flag is bigger than yours! North pole flag race heats up

October 12th, 2007

Not Russians this time but the unlikely protagonists of Denmark and Canada From the Edmunton Sun

 

Fabian Poulain has a message for Denmark, Russia and any other country that wants to claim the Arctic as its own: our flag is bigger than yours, so shut up.

Poulain - an industrial insulator who divides his time between Halifax and Fort McMurray (or as he calls it, Fort McMoney) - is calling on Canadians to help him plant the world’s largest functional flag on Hans Island, a miniscule lump of rock straddling the maritime border between Ellesmere Island and Danish-held Greenland.

“We Canadians are gonna trump everybody,” Poulain gleefully tells Sun Media.

“The message will be unambiguous: this is our territory.”

He was inspired by recent shenanigans in the High Arctic, where northern countries are scrambling to prove their claims to the region, which is believed to hold massive oil reserves.

He goes on to say:

He’s built a website (www.itsmine.ca), where visitors can donate money in exchange for commemorative mugs and buttons. Anyone who contributes will have their name on a plaque at the base of the flagpole, he said.

Poulain, who grew up in Sydney, N.S., said his family has always proudly flown Canadian flags at their home, and claims they were among the first to fly the current flag when it was introduced in 1965.

“My sister lives in Indiana and she still flies a Canadian flag at her home,” he said, adding, ” course, she also has an American flag. Don’t want to upset the neighbours.”

A former card-carrying member of the Liberal party, Poulain said he’s very supportive of the Harper Tories’ recent efforts to assert Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic.

“When I saw what they’re doing I said to myself, ‘Hey, this guy Harper’s not half bad.’”

Poulain doesn’t want to see other countries draining the Arctic of natural resources that he says are Canada’s.

“I’m sure we can wreck that part of the world all on our own. Hey, I work in northern Alberta, where we’re raping the planet just fine.”

 

I wonder if the Dane.s will apreciate the humour here, personally I dont think they will see the joke

Newcastle Under Lyme to fly the Union Flag and the Cross of St George (but only on St George’s day)

October 12th, 2007

From the Borough council blog  Whereas Scottish councils will fly the Scottish Saltire every day above the Union Flag (if they fly one at all)most English councils will be flying the Union jack.

But at least the residents on newcastle Under lyme will also the the English flag one day per year!

The Union Jack flag will now fly at Newcastle’s Civic Offices for 365 days of the year.

A decision to display patriotic pride by flying the Union Flag at the front of the building every day has been taken by Cabinet members.

Previously the Union Jack was flown on just 19 days a year, prescribed by the Lord Chamberlain and including royal birthdays.

“We decided to fly the Union Flag every day of the year so that we can all share pride in our national flag,” said Council Leader Simon Tagg.

“There’s no better way to do that than flying the Union Jack from our main civic building.

“We wanted to show that it’s for everyone, and certainly doesn’t belong to extremist political groups.”

A second flagpole at the front of the Civic Offices will be used for other occasions, such as flying the flag of St. George on St. George’s Day and the Borough flag, complete with the Newcastle crest, on civic days such as Remembrance Sunday.

If a local dignitary dies, the Borough flag will fly at half mast, and when a member of the Royal Family dies both flags will be at half mast.

Staffordshire County Council and a number of district councils in the county have also decided to fly the Union Jack every day.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has also promoted the idea.

You can of course but all three flags in our shop!

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