[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Tealeaf

In fact, the first guy to make a stab at uniting the disparate kingdoms in the 7th century AD was our dear old Oswald of Northumbria. I do not have a clue what his colours were, but his first stopping off point on the way south into Mercia was Church . Maybe if we are to have a new English flag, why not a white background with a piccy of Church Kirk tower?

Now we're getting somewhere! Let's have Oswald as our patron saint, Church as the new capital of England and convert the old canal warehouses and Commercial Hotel into the new Houses of Parliament.

HRH can have freedom of the Borough as long as she promises to stay down in London and not get under our feet.