Northern Ireland, which is actually the north of Ireland, isn’t even in Brittain.
The official name is United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Great Brittain, and Northern Ireland. Which they should give back to Ireland. Maybe add Scotland and Wales as an apology, I’m sure they would love to join the EU again and leave England.
Also, looking at the Union Jack, the northern island cross is wrong, as well as the Scottish blue colour. So basically it’s just an English flag with an artist’s impression of their stolen terretories added to it, while forgetting Wales completely.
wouldn’t be surprised if they put cornwall on the flag before they put anything welsh
Wait… just noticed… they spent a few centuries in war against Catholics but kept waving Catholic symbols as their flags?
St Patrick’s Saltire was added after the Act of Union 1800 when Ireland (whole thing) was merged into the UK, they never bothered to fix it after Irish independence in 1920.
Technically Christian symbols. The Anglican church also recognises saints.
For Andrew maybe, he is in the Bible, the other two are later “Catholic”/Western Latin-Church figures, but thank you, the protestant churches I know doesn’t recognize saints, I thought it was true for all of them.
wait am i horny for smurfs now?
What the hell
Tom of Smurf Village
Everyone notices the absence of the cool dragon flag, and mostly glosses over there being no attestation of the “Cross of St. Patrick” having been used until the United Kingdom needed such a thing for its new flag.
Wales erasure aside, why is the Union Jack blue so much darker?
Historically, due to different dyes, the blue colour varied from sky blue to navy blue. Due to more weather resistant dyes, the dark blue was chosen for the Union Jack and also sometimes used for the Scottish flag. Likeky for historical reasons, “back to the roots”, in 2003, the Scottish parliament specified a lighter blue tone than the one used for the Union Jack.
Gotta change the answers a bit, otherwise the teacher will notice
More sad.
To be fair, Wales was still a part of the Kingdom of England when the Union Jack was designed. All that means is a redesign is well overdue.
Yep, 1707 was the union of the kingdom of England with the kingdom of Scotland, 1801 brought in the kingdom of Ireland - through all this, Wales was a principality (the Prince of Wales still being a significant title), under England.
So George + Andrew + Patrick = Jack?
so three dudes got togther , got pregnant together and it made a …whole new dude!? Hmm interesting, will have to study this phenomena further.
That sounds like an interesting sitcom now
Don’t forget Cornwall! They have there own language, gash darn it!
The language went semi-extinct for a while; there was a period with no living speakers, and Cornish as spoken now was reconstructed from texts. Which means that we don’t know exactly how it used to sound, and the speakers of the older Cornish would probably not understand speakers of reconstructed Cornish. (Which sounds profound, though speakers of 17th-century English would have similar problems with modern English.)
Until the revival in Celtic nationalism from the late 19th century, people assumed that the Cornish consider themselves as indisputably English as those from historic kingdoms like Mercia and Wessex (and that the Welsh, once they see reason and give up their language, will do so as well, and in due time, there’s hope for the Scots and the Irish); the idea of a modern Cornish national identity would have sounded absurd to them.
Its how Monsanto was able to interrogate different strains of Maiz for their GMO back in 1877.
Excluding the coolest flag ever(or at least one of the coolest). What a move!
Leave it to those snobby old English bastards to ruin any chance of fun!
Shame that any are included in that Butcher’s Apron
Won’t be long until they all leave smelly old England at least
