Not quite clear on the concept
During the Pope's visit to the UK last year, we were watching the live coverage of him appearing in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow on the news on the telly. There was a crowd of tens of thousands, waving Vatican flags, Saltires, and the occasional Irish tricolore, waiting for the man in the funny car to turn up.

My Northern Irish boss and I performed simultaneous facepalms when another colleague asked why, amongst a large crowd of British Roman Catholics, no-one was waving a Union Jack.
(square go, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 14:17, 2 replies)

It's not such a daft question.
Being Catholic doesn't equate to hostility to Britain; so if there're Irish and Scottish flags, there could just as easily be British ones, the Scottish reformation being just as old as the English.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 11:46, closed)

While what you're saying may be true
the Catholic half of Glasgow is not renowned for its wholesale embrace of the flag of the Union, given what it symbolises, and the perception of its symbolism from both sides of the sectarian divide.

So it was a fucking stupid question. Just saying, like.
(square go, Mon 7 Mar 2011, 20:41, closed)