Charterz R Us: The campaign for statutory rights

The vertical red cross is St George's, who, I believe, was Armenian rather than Turkish.

The Saltire (diagonal) red cross, according to the interesting website link provided, is St Patrick's - and may represent either the Channel Islands or Ireland.

St David' cross was probably omitted for one of two reasons
1. Wales is a Principality (and part of England by conquest) rather than a Kingdom that joined by act of Union (no comment on reasonableness, merely likely historic theory)
2. Adding St Davids cross would make the flag very "busy" - and probably quite ugly (simply because of the colours)

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No it is not. That is the cross of St George (you know, that Roman legionary who was probably a Turkish mercenary and almost certainly never went near England).
At least St David was Welsh, as was St Patrick.

The cross of St David is gold on black: http://flagspot.net/images/g/gb-dewi.gif

Isn't the red cross saltire St David's?

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At least until after the next 6 nations!

Did you mention rugby?

Will Labour get another Scottish vote?

How long then before the small minded bigots of the SNP destroy the Union?

Ironic if Labour won a general election but GB had no seat!

What would happen to the Scots in English seats if the Union was revoked?

But, the way things are going, what if all the Southerners follow their money north of the border - maybe the Tories would take Scotland

As they say, interesting times!

Looks like there may be an English flag flying above one of Scotland's oldest financial institutions now that "Lloyds-Halifax" will replace the Bank of Scotland (est.1695)

...probably falls below the materiality threshold.

Sorry! (I know, this s/b a serious thread)

You do indeed (on most days at least) learn something new every day!

Rebecca, it is only a Union Jack when flown on a ship, otherwise it is the Union Flag!

Nicola, assuming the pole is on the left as would be logical, your Union Flag is upside down - or was that a subtle comment?

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I just changed the flag, as one of our lovely web designers have given us a charterz stamp instead!

We apologise that we have used the English flag on the homepage of this site for this article - this has now been amended.

The Union Jack used here, however, does in fact cover all member countries of the United Kingdom.

......why the English flag? I see the Union Flag is used on the article itself, but they are not interchangeable.