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reFLAG is a campaign to add a little more colour to the Union Flag in order to make it more suited to our multicultural society.

Thoughts?

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From:

dapperscavenger.livejournal.com

Huh, I got there before you for a change. Only by 7 mins, but still, I'm feeling rather pleased with myself :P

Heh. My response... do you see any BLUE people running around the UK? Or bright RED? Uh-huh.

From:

allorin.livejournal.com

Exactly my point - the flag has NOTHING to with race. At all. To introduce race as a topic connected with the flag is, at best, misguided, and at worst, something far more sinister. I think it's things like this that keep the race issue alive and kicking in the UK, when in fact, if all the PC do-gooders just forgot about it for a few decades, it would be a much smaller problem than it currently is. The longer they bang the drum about it, the longer groups like the BNP and those that sympathise towards their tendencies will have ammunition for their empty rhetoric.

I think if ministers think it's a good idea to change the flag, then they should have a competition open to every primary school kid in the country, and the best picture as voted for by various notaries in the UK wins. Why, if we want to represent the UK going into the 21st century, is adding black to the flag the best way to do this? Why not start again?