What is a flag, a symbol, an emblem, the dread banner, a warning, a reminder? This is yours, or this is coming for you. In our case the saltire can be a reminder of our proud nation, which will one day hold its head up high full of pride once again, once the shackles of that other reminder has had the blue background and the white cross seen by Oengus in the sky so many centuries ago, swiftly removed.
Centuries mind. We are no place that didn’t exist until after the Berlin Wall. Nor are we a nation created through the fall out of a civil war. Nor have we been newly discovered by white settlers. The Scottish flag looks over its landscape, delighted in the fact that its time will come once again, that it has not been forgotten by its people and that it is a far more powerful image than that of its peer group, as people turn away from its pomp and majesty and assumed superiority in their droves, long live the saltire and St Andrew for Scotland.