The English flag or Union flag?

It's your flag, it's the flag of England, not Great Britain, doesnt matter if you like it or not, it's not gonna change anytime soon!

Flag designs are meant to be kept simple so that when in battle, you knew exactly where your guys were, so as not to fire upon friendly forces or just to recognise who was from which country. It'll be a long time (maybe never) before Scotland leaves Great Britain to the stage that we'd have to change the Union Jack flag because of it.

I think you should design a new flag to see what it'd be like!

The origins of the Union Jack are probably unknown to those that wave it at sporting events or any event for that matter. The Jack part of Union Jack refers to the father of the Children of Israel, Jacob, and the Union refers to the union of his 12 sons who were the 12 tribes of the Children of Israel. The nation of the UK are British Israelites. Originally the flag was the Red Cross (the English flag) which was the Hebrew symbol. Added to it later was the Scottish diagonal cross and also added was the reference to Patrick the Irish connection before he became Saint Patrick. Wales does not have a direct reference in the Union Jack as Wales was already amalgamated with England. English laws and regulations in the past when the Union Jack was first designed were equally applicable to Wales. The only Saint of the home countries that actually set foot in native soil was Saint Patrick the patron saint of Ireland. The Scottish patron Saint was Andrew, one of the 12 disciples chosen by Jesus. The English Saint, George famous for fighting the dragon never set foot on English soil. It is probably the signing of the National Anthem that causes most people to connect England team supporters flying their Union Jack instead of the English flag. However in the last decade there appears to be more English flags waved by supporters than Union Jacks. The UK consists of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. GB consists of England Scotland and Wales. British teams often appear in sporting events such as the Olympics as Great Britain which is incorrect because it excludes Northern Ireland.

It's not what the flag looks like, its what the flag represents! St George's red cross was created in the 12th century, it's not like we're going to throw it out?! You can say most countries have boring flags!

Germany, italy, belgium, france, dutch, russia, tajekstan, sierra leone, and many many more have only 3 stripes on their flag,

Japan have a red spot.

Switzerland have a white cross.

AGAIN, countries don't choose a flag for how it looks, it's what it represents! If England were to adopt the union flag then it wouldn't make sense, as the union flag REPRESENTS the UNION of england, northen ireland, scotland! Welsh flag wasn't really included because it was originally "england & wales" as a conquered nation. The others were included mainly because of political reasons.

The union jack may be more aesthetically pleasing, but it would not represent ENGLAND So i would like to keep the english flag.

For patriotism of all countries, the history of the flag and generally what it represents!

A FLAG ISN'T SUPPOSED TO BE DESIGNED FOR AESTHETICAL REASONS!

The English flag, despite your view of it being "boring", represents England because of the patron saint, George. Flags aren't meant to be "non-boring", they're meant to represent something about the country. Otherwise, Libya's flag wouldn't be just a green rectangle.

The Union flag is meant to represent England, Scotland, Wales (despite the Welsh flag not being amalgamated into it) and Northern Ireland. Hence the term "union".

Which cave have you been living in?

The Union Flag and the Cross of St. George may both represent England.

And talking of boring, what about the Norwegian or Swiss Flags? Or the Turkish flag? Or the Finnish flag?

or the Japanese flag, or the............

I think the union jack looks alot better, I agree the st george cross isnt as interesting to look at. As for meanings, well Im not scottish so I would favour the st george flag.

You have me thinking now, this is a good question.

You need to adopt this new flag I see with ENGLAND written along the horizontal of the cross. What's up with that all of a sudden? It looks cheap and silly. I don't think anyone else does this.

The English flag represents England

the unionjack represents Scotland Ireland England and Wales

so England couldnt adopt the unionjack

ALL European flags are boring.

You'd think for a continent that brags about being so influential and creative you'd all come up with more exciting flags. LOL

Alex: I didn't need the history lesson thank you very much. It still doesn't change what a boring flag England has. For a country that supposedly once ruled the seas, you'd think you'd have a bit more pizazz to your flag. LOL

Well once Ireland gets it's 6 Counties back then the Union Flag won't be able to be used at all then..