How to get the Scots to stay

March 11 2014

A reader and I have been in discussion about what might happen to the Union flag if the Scots vote to leave the UK.* The above suggestion was made at the time of Act of Union in about 1707, but didn't catch on. Should we now resuscitate it, and say to the Scots: stay with us, and we'll promote you to the front?

*Now that I live there, I have a vested interest...

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