St George’s Day! Rah!

Sorry to be a pain here, but England doesn't have a flag. It has a patron saint, and he has a flag which is a red cross. The rather vague wiki-notion that the cross of St George was adopted by "England" in the 16th century can't hold water because England is a place and the 16th century was a very long time. To be at least plausible you would need something like a monarch, a parliament or an army adopting the flag, and naturally enough they would have done this in a specific year. A good example of why things on Wikipeda should never be taken at face value.On the BNP the clue is in the "B". Britain, specifically Great Britain (and later the UK), does have a flag. The cross of St George is incorporated into it, but the BNP seems to be a bit more concerned about standards of accuracy than your post suggests as it is the Union flag that is fluttering away as the background to their logo.All in all the BNP are an odious bunch of twits, but we don't necessarily get this message across effectively if we muddle up which flag they use.Vladimir Nabokov would have been 109 today, if he hadn't died ridiculously young in 1955 :0)

Tim, after a bit of poking about I have discovered that what I said yesterday is wrong, because the very day before yesterday it was announced that England does have a national flag.See: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page15333.aspSomeone has a bit of editing to do over at Wikipedia because rather than being adopted "during the 16th century" the earliest date I have is 25/3/08.However I think we may have to postpone the walking tour to educate BNP supporters, because curiously the report that sparked the change doesn't actual mention a national flag for England (nor was it part of the consultation).http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/constitutional-ren...Until these anomalies are cleared up, we would only be spreading more confusion.