Flag etiquette

[tt65]

Well now, my wife wants a big white flag pole in the garden which is OK by me.

Does any one know what flags I can fly from this. She does not want St George's cross.

Union flag? Red Ensign (50 miles from sea but on a tributary of the Arun!) Euro thingy? Someone in the next village flies a skull and crossbones, bit juvenile?

Suggestions please.

We only qualify for a Red ensign on our boat.

 

[awol]

A Royal Standard (English quarterings) might cause a stir, get your picture in the "Sun", and possibly give you a day in court.

 

[sarabande]

I suggest the "Euro thingy" surmounted by the Cross of St George fimbriated as the Saltire.

 

[gjbentley]

I suggest you have a close one to one chat with your wife over the exact nature and interest in her desire for a flag pole in your garden.

Could she be trying to tell you something here ?

Forget about what flag to fly and focus on who should be flying it !

 

[Woodlouse]

Steer clear of flying a swastika. Other than that I think you're all clear. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bobgoode]

St George cross can be flown by anyone on specific dates, eg H. M's b'day!!

 

[boatbuilder]

Well down here we fly the national flag of Cornwall. The white cross on a blackbackground.

 

[steve_cronin]

SHOULD......

...you decide to fly that dispicable "Ring o' Stars" please provide co-ordinates so that the flamethrower unit in your area to can be directed to another fresh but increasingly rare, target.

NO. It's the Union Flag and NO other (except in England the cross of St George on certain dates).

Steve Cronin

 

[Woodlouse]

Why only on specific dates? It's the English national flag. Do the welsh and scots only fly their respective flags on selected days?

 

[boatbuilder]

Re: SHOULD......

I did not mention any ring of stars /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[cgull]

I have got my own pole.
You cant fly Red Ensigns etc from Land

I fly national Flags on appropriate flag days, ie New Zealand tomorrow Feb 8th. And things like United Nations and Europe, and Chequered flag on British Grand Prix day, and a Merry Xmas one. And i have an Iraq flag, unused, and several CORNWALL flags for when I go there, and when I am on holiday fly flag of where I have gone so neighbours know!

 

[franky]

Tell her that the rotating whirly thing on the flag pole is the latest energy efficient flag and by using it to power all the electrics on your estate you can afford to buy all the essential thingys that you have been desiring for the boat and will now have more time to use them as you can sell the exc ess power which you produce to the National grid and will not have to spend so much of your life at work

 

[VicS]

You might find some interesting info here http://www.flaginstitute.org/
or here http://flagspot.net/flags/ The Flag Institute semm to have a new site since I last looked

 

[tazzle]

Oh dear dear dear. It's not as simple as that you know. Just put a flagpole up and fly a flag? Huh!

The pole is limited to 5m in height without planning consent. And it mustn't be within 9m of the bank of any river. (Town and Country Planning [permitted development] Order 2005)

The Flag is determined by regulations made under the same Act - the Town and Country Planning (control of advertisements) Regulations 1992. Only official national flags may be flown without planning consent. This made the flying of the EU flag an offence until last year when the law was modified to include it.

The Skull and Crossbones is not a national flag within the meaning of Schedule 2 Class I to Regulation 3(2) of the Regulations and is therefore unlawful development.

I'd grass them up to the council if I were you.

 

[bobgosling]

IIRC flags flown from a horizontal staff are OK but ones flown on a vertical flagpole come under all sorts of legal restrcitions.

Don't ask me where I heard that, it's one of those things that get dredged up from the murky recesses, usually whilst watching Who Wants To Be A Divorcee.

 

[MoodySabre]

Isn't your garden big enough for a rotary clothesline?

 

[FinesseChris]

The black flag of anarchy always goes down well in the gin & tonic belt, or for those of more advanced views there is the red and black (half each diagonal) which announces ones' sympathy for anarcho-syndicalism.
C

 

[Sgeir]

Courtesy flags can get you into serious trouble

The Devon courtesy flag and the police.

 

[Judders]

Re: Courtesy flags can get you into serious trouble

You have the right to fly your own national flag without planning permision. Anything else will need planning permision.

 

[Sgeir]

Re: Courtesy flags can get you into serious trouble

Must be more to it than than surely? According to this thread, the matter went to Parliament, and the Minister for Courtesy Flags said it was really OK and that you shouldn't be fined for flying your Devon and Corwall flags without planning permission. <ul type="square"> As a stranger to that area, I was a bit bewildered by the hostility between the Devon and Cornish people, and as a result of this thread, my attention has been drawn to an old BBC report, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3056188.stm, about Cornish nationalists going to war against their neighbours over Devon's new flag - the very one we had draped accross the rear window of our caravan.

Even more interesting, it seems that the flying of the Devon flag, without prior consent and planning permission, was only allowable after political intervention in 2004 - again, BBC report at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/4118401.stm. [/list]