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Originally Posted by semihere
But have you noticed there's no Welsh representation on the Union Flag? This is because of all the subjugated nations of the Union, the Welsh suffered the worst oppression. Their language was banned, their landowners disposessed and brutal laws brought in to keep the people on their knees. Much worse than Scotland or Northern Ireland.
The British Empire was never actually superior. It was just more brutal than anybody else. In Kenya we killed hundreds of thousands in our gulags. In India we killed MILLIONS through starvation (made the potato famine look like the Irish being sent to bed without any tea!). That's how we established control. It's probably a good job we don't have access to guns the way that Americans do  |
Wales had no explicit recognition in the flag because Wales had been annexed by Edward 1 in 1282, and since the The Laws of Wales act and the ceding of Wales by Llwelyn ap Gruffudd, Wales was legally part of the Kingdom of England . The Kingdom of Ireland, which had existed as a personal union with England since 1541 , was likewise unrepresented in the original Union Flag.