Put Wales on the Union Flag (From South Wales Argus)
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Put Wales on the Union Flag
10:30am Thursday 14th June 2012 in Letters
I UNDERSTAND and empathise with the sentiments expressed by Keith Parry regarding the Union Flag. Treading on the pedantic side I have to point out the Union Flag is an amalgam of the St Patrick’s, St Andrew’s and St George’s crosses therefore not the flag of England.
I can recall Colin Jackson, during an interview after he won a gold medal at the world championships some years ago, expressing the wish there was some part of his flag up there.
The history of the Ddraig Goch can be researched and I suggest it is possibly unclear. History would seem to favour the Cross of St David as the true flag of Wales. Should this be the case it is a symbol easily added to the existing Union Flag.
Wales is and always has been part of the British Isles.
Let us be recognised as such on the flag. I for one am fed up of being called English when I go abroad.
British I am, Welsh I am but I am not English!
Nigel Pearce, Pentland Close, Risca
Comments(4)
Mervyn James
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4:06pm Thu 14 Jun 12
brian819@btinternet.com
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5:03pm Thu 14 Jun 12
That being so there is hardly a case for the Welsh dragon to be added to anything at this late stage. Especially when we Welsh could want to go the way that Scotland might.
Mervyn James
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9:20am Fri 15 Jun 12
Owain Vaughan says...
11:01am Thu 14 Jun 12
I am sure you are aware that the original 1605 version was an amalgam of the flags of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. The geographical area of Wales being part of the former. Any attempt to modify the flag now would simply be historical revisionism.