entering as eng/gb/uk

[mollykins]

1) why is it that in different competitions, we are entered either as England/ Great Britain/ Uk?

2) plus we haven't even got a gb flag, we end up using the uk flag, couldn't a knew gb flag be made up, from the uk flag, but without the n.i. cross, and with a little dragon in the middle perhaps to represent Wales?

[mollykins]

and do england, wales and n.ireland belong to us in the same way that other commonwealth countries do, she's head of state, or what?

[cazzz1975]

The flag for Great britain is the union flag
http://en.wikipedia.o...List_of_British_flags

[mollykins]

the union flag is for the uk, under great britain, it had the seperate english, scottish and welsh flags, meanign that there isn't a specific one for just great britain.

[mollykins]

there is a britain flag, the union flag without the n.i. cross, why do we never use it?

[mollykins]

its the same one.

what i'm saying is, why do we use the uk flag with the red diagonal cross as part of it, when there is a flag we could use that doesn't include n.i.

[factor-fiction]

Mollykins- are you saying :
(a) there is already a recognised flag for Great Britain which excludes the Northern Ireland saltire
or
(b) it would be easy to create a Great Britain flag by removing teh saltire from the Union Flag?
Wales doesn't seem to be represented on the UK flag or on your suggested GB flag.

Anyway- is UK simply GB + NI? I seem to remember it's not quite as simple as that. For example where does Isle of Man fit in? And Jersey?

And then there's the British Isles which covers GB, NI and Eire!

It's all seems a bit of a mess. I bet the vast majority of Britisk/UK citizens don't know the difference between UK, GB and Bristish Isles

[mollykins]

i'm saying that there is a gb flag which is basically english and scottish, but when we enter stuff like the olympics we use the uk flag which is incorrect, plus the gb flag doesn't have a little dragon on, probably for the same reason the uk flag doesn't.

[mollykins]

and your point is . . .

i jsut thought, that in this time of political correctness, its odd that the wrong flag is being used

[mollykins]

so WHY do we enter various competitions, seperatly as eng/sco/wal/n.i, as gb or as the uk?

[jackthehat]

Are you Welsh, mollykins ?

[mollykins]

i'm from every corner of the kingdom, and beyond.

[mollykins]

i'm part english, scottish, welsh, french and have traced some parts of my family back to the irish borders, so i'm probably a little bit of both, and to the french/flemish border.

[mollykins]

???????

[mollykins]

what are you on about no_k?

[jackthehat]

As this group of islands is so small, we would, generally not be able to make much of an impact on the world stage if every individual nation, baliwick, etc. were to enter on its' own (indeed whether places would be open/available to individual representitives of such is debateable) and thus in 'world competitions' the Union Flag is seen as all-encompassing and inclusive.
In the Commonwealth Games, every qualifying nation, etc is invited to send competitors and then each nation, etc. can proudly carry its own flag.
Most of the nations of UK/GB seem content to compete under the Union flag when a separate national flag is not practical...........

[mollykins]

we've only won the football world cup once, surely that means that england on its own isn't good enough to compete, it need the rest of gb or the uk