Flags for Fun..

Hi

So I made a mock up of what the Union Jack would look like without Scotland.. but first lets run through some national flags..

Scotland

The Saint Andrew's Cross.
The Scottish Saltire:




The Scottish Royal Standard.
The Lion Rampant:






Wales

Welsh main national flag.. why they want a dragon on it is beyond me. I much prefer their secondary flag.. but again, I'm not Welsh so rightly, don't get a say.





Saint David's Cross




Northern Ireland

Ulster Flag. Note it is the English flag with the 'red hand of ulster' upon it.
This flag is identified with sectarian activities but also used in national sports.



The Saint Patrick's Saltire




Not a country like the others, but I feel should have been a principality in it's own right (Cornwall & Devon = Kernow)

Kernow





Union Jack suggestion mockup I made:




I realized 2 minutes before I started this blog, there's white where there shouldn't be.. hmm gimme 5 minutes :)



UPDATE: Did a load mær

Ah keep daydreamin' aboot Scotland huv'n left the Union so..

An' don't mistake ma love o' LEAVING yon Union.. fur love o' yon flag! coz iyt's no!

Flags for Fun Part 2!!!

In effort to get rid of that awful flag and symbol of very much my own hatred.. the symbol of the Union Jack that announces to the world of Scotland's ownership and occupation by England..

Today I have been messing about with alternate flags of NZ and OZ..

OZ..

 NZ..

Update 20th Feb 2019:
Did some mær flags fur fun.. Svalbard

Catalonian Saltire

on the Telegraph comment section

 "The SNP emerges the largest party from the Scottish Parliament elections but Nicola Sturgeon is forced to form a minority government after she falls short of another majority."



What is it about the Scottish Electoral system that many English fail to understand?



The Scottish Parliament is DESIGNED from the ground up to *intentionally* make minority governments. It's purpose is to allow all who are elected to have a voice, and encourage cooperation between the parties.



Each person gets two votes, one constitutional, one regional. There is a threshold for how many members a party can have in parliament.. if one party (member per region) gets too many votes they are 'Disused'.

In the 2016 Scottish Election, the SNP got 1,059,897 const. votes and 953,587 regional votes.. they also had 708,051 disused regional votes; coming *first* across *every* regional area of Scotland and lost 12 seats and gained no seats.



see here for more info: https://scotspol.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-scottish-electoral-system-in-action.html



No other party comes remotely close to those numbers. The *only* other party to have disused regional votes was the Scottish Conservatives at around 20,000. So 20,000 is a decent number.. but 708,051 is overwhelming support; for both policy and ideal.



The SNP are *loved* in Scotland.



vs



Seeing how a parliament *should* be run, should give the English ideas.

The 'Tudor Reenactment Club' of Westminster, is as Mhairi Black told us, a joke.



Westminster, London, The South East of England.. with varying degrees, suck up money and spit out poverty.



If a building cost £100,000 elsewhere, and the English (UK) Government pay £1,000,000 for it to be in London .. where did that £900,000 come from? That's right.. the poor, the average worker, the middle classes. Was it value for money? no.. because you could have bought ten of them, or better still pay 1000 people with disabilities for a year to stop them killing themselves.

Scotland.. a country or 'region'? .. or how to insult too many people at once Q.Q

Feb 2017

Hi WWW

I see Americans online calling 'Scotland' a State of the UK.. how utterly insulting!

Scotland already had traditional 'States' that we call 'Regions':

States:

1. Central
2. Dumfries and Galloway
3. Fife 
4. Grampian
5. Lothian and Borders
6. Highland (including the Orkney, Shetland & Western Isles)
7. Strathclyde
8. Tayside

Strathclyde

Counties:

Argyll and Bute

East Ayrshire

East Dunbartonshire

East Renfrewshire

Glasgow City Council

Inverclyde

North Ayrshire

North Lanarkshire

Renfrewshire

South Ayrshire

South Lanarkshire

West Dunbartonshire

 

Dumfries and Galloway 

Annandale

Eskdale

Nithsdale

Kirkcudbrightshire County

Stewartry (archaically, Desnes)

Wigtownshire County

Machars (archaically, Farines)--divided into census areas (civil parish areas)

Rhins of Galloway divided into census areas (civil parish areas)

Borders 

Berwickshire 

Peeblesshire 

Roxburghshire 

Selkirkshire 

and part of Midlothian, as a two-tier region with the districts of Berwickshire, Ettrick and Lauderdale, Roxburgh, and Tweeddale

Lothian 

City of Edinburgh
East Lothian
Midlothian
Scottish Borders
West Lothian

Central 

Clackmannanshire
Falkirk
Stirling

Fife 

North East Fife

Kirkcaldy

Dunfermline

Tayside 

Angus
The City of Dundee
Perth & Kinross

Grampian 

Aberdeen City
Aberdeenshire
Moray

Highland 

Caithness Sutherland and Ross
Inverness and Nairn and Skye
Lochaber and Badenoch

Western Isles 

Shetland 

Orkney 

These were changed in governance but the police remained for each region until 2014.

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So.. Scotland/The Scottish Flag is missing for Profiles?
Hey Valve!

Bit offended tbh..
So Jersey Guernsey and the Isle of Man.. get flags.. but Scotland.. zip.. nada.. nothing?

I mean I realize not everyone has a grasp on geography..but Jersey and Guernsey are principalities of England (and technically Wales, although it is a historic Gael Country) and the Isle of Man (would have been, as part of Dal Riata) a principality of both Ireland and Scotland.

England and Scotland are the two fully legal countries in the Union. I am from the : town: Dumbarton in the :county: of West Dunbartonshire part of the :region/state: of Strathclyde in the COUNTRY of Scotland. Y'know I should lump in Canada the US and Japan together.. you all share the same defense budget, that must mean you are all the same country right? right?? and each one of those three is merely a state of that one country.. right?

pfftt.. I've had enough Americans talk down to recently on comment sections about Scottish Independence .. how dæ ye like them æpples!

I do not show my 'Country' because there is no option other than UK>Strathclyde. I am NOT displaying the 'Butcher's Apron' under any circumstance as it rings politically untrue of my identity.

STOP talking down to your customers who wish to support their COUNTRY: Scotland.

I enjoy the Saltire, Scotland's National Flag and also The Royal Standard. These should be options.. either or both even at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Scotland_1973%E2%80%9396#/media/File:Scotland_1974_Administrative_Map.png




*I* would say the primary Mothers of each country that I care to mention are:

Alba:
Canada
America
New Zealand

Wales:
Australia

Espania:
All the Southern American continent, except Brazil.

Scotland in the EU..

June 2018

Hi

What I want to share is *my own thoughts* on what Scotland should be inside the EU, what the EU should be to Scots, and further afield member states.

I am pro-Scotland in the EU, freedom of movement, freedom of trade, and I am willing to sacrifice a few laws to make this greatly beneficial and peaceful system happen. I have *some* caveats though..


Firstly, I don't believe the EU should have any sort of army/navy/airforce.. each individual country should protect themselves and, if need be, ask our neighbours in the EU for help. The whole idea of the EU is peace.. having any kind of military force destroys that idea with hypocrisy.

I do not wish the EU to grow in power, grow in member states, yes, but the control the EU council had for some 20 years was fine, I see no reason to increase it.

Yes, I will miss the old light bulbs.. but the new ones are getting better and cheaper.

In the event of more member states joining from all around the world, I honestly don't mind people living here, in fact I would really like it. My (now ex) fiancee is a Filipina and it has been a nightmare getting her into the country, obviously I would like the Philippines to join the EU, this would mean all Ruthy would have to do is board a flight and come here. I enjoy the idea of an 'open world'.. people can live and work where they please, I am disabled and would like to spend more time with Ruthy, I am allowed 4 weeks every 6 months or I lose my benefits, it would be nice to be able to keep my benefits and perhaps live with Ruthy for a while and then she could live here.. or whatever as adults suits us.

I would like this for everyone.. and if a country that usually gets financial aid joined the EU then instead that money could go towards providing, regulating and administrating for the people directly. 'Universal Health Care and Disability' would be a peaceful way to distribute the money instead of it going to politicians.. some of whom are known to keep the money for themselves.

I feel Scotland should be somewhere in between the 'Norway Arrangement' and a full member state, 111 laws the EU had controlled, well that sounds good to me. Giving us enough autonomy and returning the laws we know the EU can be trusted with.. they earned it, they can keep it.

Tax.. everyone hates tax when you buy online.. it's awful, the thing you bought shows up like some sort of present but then BAM.. you're not allowed it because you need to pay tax for it. Seems a bit evil to just tax the private buyer.. I know why it happens, they are trying to encourage you buy from your own country..but imagine this:

I play guitar.. I enjoy guitars and have been known as a guitar enthusiast at times. America invented the electric guitar.. two famous companies after its invention became super popular brands, Fender and Gibson. Now.. let's say I am shopping for a guitar.. it's unlikely to be a Scottish mass manufactured guitar.. in Scotland we have ZERO guitar manuf. facilities. Wales has ZERO, Northern Ireland has ZERO.. England has ONE. Now, that company is called Gordon Smith Guitars.. the lowest priced model they do NEW is around £700. I can buy a guitar at the same quality OR BETTER with a second hand japanese... for £150. And.. I have. I own a 'Hondo II' which is basically both companies copying the same model (LP Double Cut).

Slim is one way to describe my option IF I wanted an English guitar.. unless I was rich rich rich.. then I could buy from a Scottish or English boutique builder for £2000. but really I wouldn't pay 2k for a guitar.. it's insulting.

overtaxing is insulting. I don't mind paying a little to offset some of the cost to the local industry..but really it should be capped worldwide to £30.

I digress..

I saw a thing on my router saying that for 60 seconds my router would be monitored to check it wasn't attached to a radar.. and this was in compliance with EU regulations. I disagree with this.. stay out of my router! Don't need anyone invading my privacy..