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Should Scotland change their flag?

Should Scotland change their flag?

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Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox wants a Rainbow-style flag introduced.

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=13882776&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Is the man totally nuts or what?

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Originally posted by adramforall
Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox wants a Rainbow-style flag introduced.

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=13882776&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Is the man totally nuts or what?
I think he should make one the size of scotland, this way by collecting all the rain water (as you and I know it always pisses down up there!) there would never be a drought in the world ever again!!

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i think all flags should be abolished anyway (unless russ gives them tooltips to show the country names without having to go to a different page)

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Originally posted by adramforall
Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox wants a Rainbow-style flag introduced.

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=13882776&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Is the man totally nuts or what?
change the flag? now that would p1$$ off all those hard-nut weegies with "SCOTLAND FOREVER" tattoos huh. could you imagine that protest march 😕 lmao

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I think they should make Rangers FC the national flag

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You'll not be surprised to hear that I agree with Colin.

The current Scottish flag represents a bloke who never set foot in Scotland, and probably never heard of the place.

It represents outdated christian symbolism.

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...so perhaps you would like 2 million skulls in a row in memory of
pol pot and the killing fields...or maybe che guevara who wrote about
starting a nuclear war between the east and west as his final dream..
how about flags for these...?

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Originally posted by GENGAR
...so perhaps you would like 2 million skulls in a row in memory of
pol pot and the killing fields...or maybe che guevara who wrote about
starting a nuclear war between the east and west as his final dream..
how about flags for these...?
why? That's no more relevant to Scotland.

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Originally posted by Redmike
why? That's no more relevant to Scotland.
Well the meaning of these things changes over time and gathers meaning for people from the belief they put into it, rightly or otherwise. The English flag is quite interesting from this point of view, the Cross of George, if he ever existed was introduced after the Norman invasion as they really didn't want to admit to the Saxons having any kind of culture before them. As he was an entirely mythical invention it suited both the conquers and to some extent the conquered.

The original patron Saint of England was Edmund the Martyr. He was a minor king of Kent and a client of Offa's. When the Vikings came marauding he lost the battles but nevertheless tryed to convert them to Christianity. The Danes lost patience and blood eagled him (hack open the rib cage with an axe and pull out the lungs over the victims shoulders so that they looks like they have wings), as a consequence of which he became our patron saint until 1066 'n; all that...

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..ok...i have an idea...how about a nice white flag ( the jabobite
color ) with a green and purple thistle in the center...and if you would
like to add some worker's image to it you could have the thistle inside the hammer and sickle...not exatly in the center as the hammer head
sort of dominates the center of the sickle but just inside off the the
right of the hammer but still within the orbit of the sickle...but i
would prefer just the white flag with a nice large thistle...very clean
and simple...( will you make me high lord of glasgow for my idea ? ).

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Originally posted by GENGAR
..ok...i have an idea...how about a nice white flag...( will you make me high lord of glasgow for my idea ? ).
.....er.....NO.....CHANCE......!!!

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Originally posted by adramforall
Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox wants a Rainbow-style flag introduced.

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=13882776&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Is the man totally nuts or what?
How gay!!!

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Originally posted by adramforall
Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox wants a Rainbow-style flag introduced.

http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=149235&command=displayContent&sourceNode=149218&contentPK=13882776&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch

Is the man totally nuts or what?
Who cares? really...

It's just a symbol.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Who cares? really...

It's just a symbol.
Never underestimate the power of symbols.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Who cares? really...

It's just a symbol.
It isn't remotely a priority for the SSP, and probably originates from a journalist picking up an off-the-cuff remark.

We don't have any sort of formal policy on replacing the flag.

Its no coincidence thugh that the press are running with this story at a time when 2 of our key policy initiatives are about to be debated in the Scottish Parliament.

It is simply a diversion, to draw attention away from serious, sensible policies we are actively promoting.