This might be a bit controversial, but I would love it if we flew more of our county flags, even St. George’s flag, just because.
I currently live somewhere where it’s very common to not only fly the country’s flag but the canton AND city/town in tandem… just for a bit of civic pride, you know?
There is a very good reason why the West Midlands Combined Authority is called the West Midlands Combined Authority and not Greater Birmingham. There would be riots across most of the area of such a thing was attempted.
Each of the other 6 councils within the WMCA area refused to join anything called Greater Birmingham. Warwickshire refused to join in case Birmingham ever tried to pull a fast one and rename it.
North Mercia is way too big and diverse to be one region, most of those places aren’t regionally close enough to Notts. Should’ve put Staffordshire and Shropshire with the West Midlands and called it West Mercia. Same with Norwich being the capital of East Anglia and Leeds the capital of Yorkshire.
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This might be a bit controversial, but I would love it if we flew more of our county flags, even St. George’s flag, just because.
I currently live somewhere where it’s very common to not only fly the country’s flag but the canton AND city/town in tandem… just for a bit of civic pride, you know?
There is a very good reason why the West Midlands Combined Authority is called the West Midlands Combined Authority and not Greater Birmingham. There would be riots across most of the area of such a thing was attempted.
Each of the other 6 councils within the WMCA area refused to join anything called Greater Birmingham. Warwickshire refused to join in case Birmingham ever tried to pull a fast one and rename it.
North Mercia is way too big and diverse to be one region, most of those places aren’t regionally close enough to Notts. Should’ve put Staffordshire and Shropshire with the West Midlands and called it West Mercia. Same with Norwich being the capital of East Anglia and Leeds the capital of Yorkshire.