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OTHER COMMS IN THE HISTORYVERSE:
Explanation: The Union Jack, used as the flag of the UK, is actually a combination of three flags - the flags of Scotland, England, and (one of the flags of) Ireland.
... Wales gets left out.
Suggestions of putting a cute lil' dragon for Wales in the middle have been floated, but thus far, showing the depth of elitist CYMROPHOBIA, have not been implemented. 😔
and (one of the flags of) Ireland.
Ironically absent from the meme. 😬
it's the red saltire
To be fair though, that is the flag of Great Britain… which ceased to exist as a country in 1801.
lmao, I didn't even catch that
it’s the red saltire
I honestly live it with the li'l guy in the center
The UK’s constitutional settlement is a pile of ad hoc arrangements, and thus somewhat of a mess. No pair of constituent nations are in the union on equal terms, in the way that, say, US states or German Länder are.
Wales has historically been regarded as a funny part of England, sort of like Cornwall, whose locals get angry if you don’t pretend that they’re a real pseudo-country without actual sovereignty like Scotland and can put up a fight so you humour them. “England and Wales” is constitutionally one entity with one set of laws and until recently ruled directly from Westminster (there’s now a regional parliament in Wales named the Senedd, though only a few regional matters are devolved to it). Now Wales is nominally regarded as one of the constituent nations of the UK, even if the settlement still often treats it as an appendage of England.
Interestingly enough, Cornwall is now increasingly asserting its nationhood, and you read about people who consider themselves Cornish rather than English, as opposed to Cornishness implying Englishness the way that, say, being from Yorkshire does. The revival of the Cornish language undoubtedly helps.
Wales a historically been regarded as a funny part of England, sort of like Cornwall, whose locals get angry if you don’t pretend that they’re a real pseudo-country without actual sovereignty like Scotland and can put up a fight so you humour them.
Anglos running scared, Cornish Empire when?
I personally am a fan of how some people within the Yorkshire devolution movement seem to genuinely want full independence for Yorkshire. I learned this after expressing absurdly hyperbolic patriotism for Yorkshire, and finding that not everyone who talks about full independence is being ironic
The dragon is too awesome and would be diminished by being placed on a union jack.
What are you talking about? It's clearly already there! It's all over the thing!
I am objectively correct to propose this update
That's some visual warfare right there. I feel dizzy just looking at it.
The red X is not in the flag in the picture
Ireland escaped
