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Isn't the Union Jack your national flag? Who the hell would want to stop your Police from wearing it?

Macbeth wrote:

Isn't the Union Jack your national flag? Who the hell would want to stop your Police from wearing it?

American Revolutionists.

Macbeth wrote:

Isn't the Union Jack your national flag? Who the hell would want to stop your Police from wearing it?

That's the thing about political correctness.  No-one actually subscribes to the bullshit measures they put in place, sometimes I just think the government does it for the sake of it.

M.O.A.B wrote:

Whoever banned it in the first place was a fucking idiot. Just goes to show how many top people in this country have zero pride for any part of it.

It doesn't seem like the Union Jack was specifically banned in the first place, it just wasn't on the approved list of badges that could be worn.  This just seems like a retroactive fix for something that hadn't been much of an issue before and only became an issue because of the charity that the badges were supporting.  At least that's what I got from the article.

its not a union jack ffs.

and no macbeth, its not the national flag per se

Im_Dooomed wrote:

Who the hell is Union Jack?

The cousin of Confederate Dan.

FatherTed wrote:

Im_Dooomed wrote:

Who the hell is Union Jack?

union jack is the name given to the union flag when it's at sea iirc. and the union flag represents countrys in great britain- that aren't Wales.

sort of

FatherTed wrote:

its not a union jack ffs.

and no macbeth, its not the national flag per se

So what is it called then, and what do you mean by it's not the national flag, wait. I don't get it

Mekstizzle wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

its not a union jack ffs.

and no macbeth, its not the national flag per se

So what is it called then, and what do you mean by it's not the national flag, wait. I don't get it

ffs mek

its called the union flag, and since the UK isnt a country as such, it's not a national flag. in it are the flags of england and scotland, and an old irish one. which is why it doesnt really include n.ireland or wales.

Switch wrote:

Met lifts ban on union jack badge

"Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson has made an "exception" to the force's dress code by allowing officers to display union jack badges."

Nice to see them not pandering to political correctness for once.

This is actually an interesting little pickle here. Allowing them to wear the badge was technically an act of appeasement, even though it happened to your union flag on the badge. Think of it this way, what if it had been an arabic symbol of some sort that they wanted to display? Had they allowed that it would have been considered a gross act of appeasement. I remember a similar case involving turbans a while back.

What they have done here is they have effectively allowed officers to violate the uniform regulations. What they should have done is allowed for the uniform design to be changed, incorporating the union jack into it... or alternatively scrap any rules or regulations regarding the display of emblems or badges. A third option would be to explicitly make a special exception for the union Jack alone in the rules and regulations.

Once you start making exceptions here and there you find yourself on a slippery slope.

Last edited by Braddock (2009-07-31 09:29:35)

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

FatherTed wrote:

Mekstizzle wrote:

So what is it called then, and what do you mean by it's not the national flag, wait. I don't get it

ffs mek

its called the union flag, and since the UK isnt a country as such, it's not a national flag. in it are the flags of england and scotland, and an old irish one. which is why it doesnt really include n.ireland or wales.

the UK is a country bro

Then the EU is a country.

Which it isn't.