County Flag

[Beadle]

I once got snarled at by an Irishman in Malahide marina because my courtesy flag was a few inches below the crosstrees.

Sirry Pirrock

 

[bromleybysea]

I also fly a Cornish Flag. I was asked, by an Englishman from Devon, one day last year why I flew it rather than the red ensign. I explained to him that many of the Cornish consider themselves 'not English' because the history of the the wars between English & Cornish and the butchery carried out etc.
Myself, I tend to use my own life experiences. I was the employ of of a company that paid a wage 50% higher in Plymouth than for the same job in Cornwall ! There has always been and probably always will be a discrepancy between wages in Cornwall and the other side of the Tamar. To me, how then can we be considered to be English.
I jokingly remarked to the gentleman that I did keep the red ensign aboard that was left by the previous owner - after all one day, one may run out of toilet paper.

Like a previous poster, I am proud to wear the red ensign because it is a link with the thousands of brave men of the merchant service who contributed as much as our armed forces did to our survival in the second world war.The flag under which they sailed deserves respect.