Cardiff, a Union flag-free zone
In today's Gordon Brown world of total Britishness, I tuned into BBC News to witness five bemedalled Welsh Olympians being presented to an ecstatic crowd outside the Welsh Assembly building.
I expected to see the beaming athletes wrapped in their British flags - while an adoring crowd waved their little Union Flags for all they were worth.....
Some hope.
It was dragons all the way, the crowd, the flagpoles and the athletes were dripping with the dragon rampant. Not a Union Flag in sight, anywhere. Cue interviews. They were so proud to be Welsh. They were no longer British, they were Welsh - and it was fab....
The Scottish version will happen tomorrow, as wil the Northern Irish one....
But what about the English?
Oh yeah, of course. We are 'British' aren't we?
2 comments:
For many(me)British and English where used without much thought....wether I like it or not it seems I am viewed by others as English...so be it...lets be English and look to ourselves.
But Wales didn't actually compete as Wales in the Olympics. Did it?
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