I smell a rat… the process of changing the flag is underway, despite a lack of support from the broader public. This is a carefully crafted campaign by a very few people and the bastards won’t rest until they get their way. From the news item:
‘..The committee will also have to review draft legislation which will allow two referendums to go ahead.
The first referendum in late 2015 will ask New Zealanders to vote on a range of alternative flags chosen by the Flag Consideration Panel.
A second referendum in April 2016 will be a run-off between the most popular alternative flag and the current national flag…’
Note there’s going to be no referendum on whether or not to simply keep the current flag…..and those who vote for a particular alternative design will most certainly vote in favour of changing the flag in the second referendum because they’ll already be caught up in the “thrill” of a nice shiny new design. Give it a few more years and the brainwashed clowns will include a green crescent in the design. A country which forgets its heritage and distorts and falsifies its history will lose the glue that binds society and culture into something civilized and enduring, although I guess few will care in an age where “social media” and a five-minute attention span steer the political agenda.
Changing the Flag of NZ – Really- & Why>>>
C-CS
Because the European past is so….unfashionable Carol. Doesn’t fit the multiculti pc dream being peddled to the young and the uninformed. (I repeat myself there).
“although I guess few will care in an age where “social media” and a five-minute attention span steer the political agenda.”
Ahhhh…. I think maybe you are overlooking the important part hashtags play in righting the wrongs of this world in this day and age.
I recall the debate about changing the NZ flag was afoot in the 1960s about the time the Canadians were debating/changing their flag. I understand the debate in Canada was at times heated. I cannot see that a debate about changing the flag is intrinsically bad. (It is noted that had Scotland seceded from the UK the jack in the corner of our flag would’ve necessitated a slight amendment.) I accept that the armed forces hold the recollection of fighting under the current flag dear but this oughtn’t mean debate should be avoided. Personally I regard the present links to the UK are flimsy, hence the need to retain the Jack in the corner is tenuous. I don’t have any ideas as to what the replacement flag ought look like but I do support a debate.
“Personally I regard the present links to the UK are flimsy, hence the need to retain the Jack in the corner is tenuous..”
It’s not a question of “need” but of acknowledging a heritage. It seems that when maori wish to do that, it’s fine. Just not for whitey. And it’s whitey who created New Zealand as we know it today.
I have no objection to honest debate, but I smell a stitch-up here.
The first American flag “The Grand Union” had the Union Jack in one corner, but we got pissed at the Brits when they beat us at the Battle of Long Island and took New York City…Having said that “The Grand Union” was a beautiful flag:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Union_Flag
This would very likely today be the American National Flag had only King George III compromise with the patriots who presented the “Albany Plan” whereby the U.S. Congress would recognize the British monarchy as the Chief Executive and America would remain in the Empire.
Unfortunately King George III was too much like Barack Obama and would not compromise; hence, the Revolutionary War that both the British and American Peoples didn’t want to fight.
There is a lesson here.
Ahh —and thus the words accompanying the Declaration –
We will have no king but KING JESUS—
I like that better=
as to the Stars and Stripes-BEAUTIFUL!!!
C-CS
The truly asinine Lord North probably had more to do with that spot of difficulty across the Atlantic than King George personally.