Ed Miliband And The Union Flag

[boxtops]

Has anyone else spotted this today? what a plonker....

https://www.facebook.com/#!/T.I.England/photos/a.704408089608926.1073741828.704402502942818/729019100481158/?type=1&;theater

[janbee]

Poor old Mr Ed. the talking horse . Actually the horse talked more sense.

[mikey4444]

This is clearly a fake and a pretty poor one at that, as there is no such word as "multicultral" !

[Gromit]

Ed Miliband has never said the quote attributed to him by Bournemouth EDL.

There is plenty of real ammunition to attack Ed Miliband, but to make stuff up is pathetic. And to blindly believe it isn't much better.

[whiskeryron]

Whoever you are LEAVE OUR UNION FLAG ALONE.

[Gromit]

Our national flag is called the 'Union Jack'.

[mikey4444]

I don't want this to become a petty argument about precise terms but as I understand it, it is only called a Union Jack in a naval sense.

[whiskeryron]

No it isn't Gromit. It is only called the Union Jack when it is flying from a Royal Navy Vessel.

[New Judge]

Yes the "Jack" or "Flag" argument is not straightforward.

Officially it should only be termed a "Union Jack" when flown from the jack staff at the bow of a ship, and then usually only in the Royal Navy as merchant ships do not normally have a jack staff at the bow.

The jack staff itself is a result of slang as a flag was often informally known as a "jack". It seems, however, in modern usage either is acceptable.

[douglas9401]

Harumph! Naval gazing.

[naomi24]

That has to be a hoax - but I agree with Jean Owens Nelson who wrote "Who votes for this idiot?"

[Quizmonster]

For the truth about jack/flag disagreements, who better to ask than the Flag Institute? And here's what they say...to be called The Union Jack, it doesn't now have to be on a naval jack-staff and never really has!
http://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/

[anotheoldgit]

/// It is often stated that the Union Flag should only be described as the Union Jack when flown in the bows of a warship, but this is a relatively recent idea. From early in its life the Admiralty itself frequently referred to the flag as the Union Jack, whatever its use, and in 1902 an Admiralty Circular announced that Their Lordships had decided that either name could be used officially. Such use was given Parliamentary approval in 1908 when it was stated that “the Union Jack should be regarded as the National flag”. ///

http://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/british-flags/the-union-jack-or-the-union-flag/

http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/436835/It-s-official-We-can-call-our-flag-the-Union-Jack

[anotheoldgit]

Quizmonster

Sorry about that, I didn't see your link.

[Quizmonster]

Not a problem, AOG.

[waterboatman]

weelllll, he is an idiot!