Should New Zealand Change its flag?

[fagin]

Its a shame that 56% of kiwis lack vision. It makes you wonder how we can make movies like LOTR and The Hobbit.

Because the stories were written by an Englishman. And the movies were a bit crap.

 

[Information Analyst]

If Hawaii were to have a referendum and the current flag beat a flag, say, with Magnum PI's face on it, would the Guardian similarly talk up its strong links to the UK?

Almost certainly not. I expect Guardian journos are utterly unaware of the flag, excpet in the unlikely event that they're Hawaii Five-0 fans...

 

[Information Analyst]

Its a shame that 56% of kiwis lack vision. It makes you wonder how we can make movies like LOTR and The Hobbit.

And Goodbye Pork Pie.

 

[Samson]

And Goodbye Pork Pie.

It's being reheated. Watch your back.

 

[smartcooky]

Almost certainly not. I expect Guardian journos are utterly unaware of the flag, excpet in the unlikely event that they're Hawaii Five-0 fans...

Ah, yes. I forgot about the "Blondini Gang"

 

[Andy_Ross]

So your keeping the Australian flag then?

 

[Information Analyst]

It's being reheated. Watch your back.

Noooooooo!!!!!!

 

[Samson]

Noooooooo!!!!!!

Yessssss

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11602553

Go bush for a while.

 

[PhantomWolf]

Good, now we can do it properly and get a good design when we tell Charlie boy where to stick his crown rather being stuck with the corporate logo on a tea towel that Johnny wanted to stick us with as his legacy.

 

[angrysoba]

The vote wasn't to retain the existing flag so much as a vote against the alternative.

Its a shame that 56% of kiwis lack vision. It makes you wonder how we can make movies like LOTR and The Hobbit.

Mind you, there was a groundswell of naysayers against the making of those movies here, mainly by Trade Union supporting Liberal whackos. Maybe we can make movies like that in spite of our lack of imagination, but it seems we don't have the collective courage to kick The Old Country into touch. We are, after all, less that 200 years old; maybe its too early to cut the apron strings.

For what my advice is worth, maybe you chaps could start by writing a constitution for yourselves.

 

[Information Analyst]

Almost certainly not. I expect Guardian journos are utterly unaware of the flag, excpet in the unlikely event that they're Hawaii Five-0 fans...

The BBC, on the other hand...

 

[angrysoba]

The BBC, on the other hand...

Nice one! So not only do the Hawaiians have the Union Flag but they also updated it.

 

[Ladewig]

So your keeping the Australian flag then?

That's low.

Funny. But low.

 

[Roger Ramjets]

For what my advice is worth, maybe you chaps could start by writing a constitution for yourselves.

Why?

 

[Andy_Ross]

The BBC, on the other hand...

Nice

Tuvalu, in the south Pacific,dropped the union jack from its flag in January 1996 but reinstated it 15 months later, after Bikenibeu Paeniu was elected prime minister. "It's the flag our people wanted in the first place," he said at the time. "The new flag was never taken to the people for their views. This is the respect for the fathers of our nation. The flag is our symbol, a symbol of our unity

 

[malbec]

New Zealanders are smart .
They will vote a resounding , No .

 

[cullennz]

Good, now we can do it properly and get a good design when we tell Charlie boy where to stick his crown rather being stuck with the corporate logo on a tea towel that Johnny wanted to stick us with as his legacy.

In about 15-20 years

 

[cullennz]

60 40

Was I close or what?

[emoji41]

 

[angrysoba]

Why?

I think that will say a lot more about independence from the UK than the changing of the flag.

For example, New Zealand could choose to be a republic and write that into its constitution.

Just a thought, there's no need to take me up on the idea.

 

[Damien Evans]

I was high, with 56/44 vote.

As The Guardian puts it:



That's their leader - strong links to the UK.

Genius. Let's change the national anthem back to sky-daddy save the old hag.

Beats sky-daddy project us because our armed forces can't.