Will this be the UK's new flag?
March 08, 2014 01:21
Long after the Empire's collapse, the Union Jack remains an internationally recognized symbol of Britain. But all that could change soon.
Scotland, one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom (along with England, Northern Ireland, and Wales), will hold a referendum on independence this September.
If it succeeds, Britain's iconic flag may need a makeover.
The Flag Institute, the UK's national flag charity and the largest membership-based vexillological organization in the world, recently polled its members and found that nearly 65 percent of respondents felt the Union Jack should be changed if Scotland becomes independent.
And after the poll, the organization found itself flooded with suggested replacements for the flag.
"We are not advocating changing the flag. We are not advising changing the flag. We are not encouraging a change to the flag. We are not discouraging a change to the flag," Charles Ashburner, the Flag Institute's chief executive and trustee, told me. "We are simply simply here to facilitate and inform the debate if there is an appetite for such a thing."
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