On Reforming Britain 2: Future flags

Following on from the last post, The idea of updating the UK flag has come up a few times over the years. Here are my ideas for a new flag based on the scenarios previously described, in the same order of different scenarios:

1) Kingdom of Great Britain and Ulster:

As there would still be the four nations making up the UK there would not be a great need to change the flag. However, this could be an opportunity to add Welsh representation, such as this idea from Wikipedia:

2) Kingdom of Great Britain:

If Northern Ireland goes, revert to the pre-1801 flag.



These flags already exist, the following are my designs.

3) United Kingdon of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland:

If Scotland goes, replace the St Andrews cross with St Davids. In addition, St Patrick's cross is made wider (Currently The red saltire of St Patrick is offset such that it does not relegate the white saltire of St Andrew to a mere border.)  This could be also be used in the event that NI is repartitioned.


4) Kingdom of England and Wales/Kingdon of Britain:

If Scotland and NI leave, I have two suggestions. The first is similar to the above but removes the cross of St Patrick.

In the second, which I'd prefer for the KEW option, the Welsh Dragon in the top left quadrant of the St. Georges's cross. An alternative version could eliminate the green half to make it just red and white. The main downside to this design is that it looks a bit too much like a Welsh white ensign.
An interesting question that would arise in the event of a new British flag is what would countries that have the current Union flag as part of theirs (e.g Australi, New Zealand) do? As they've already had debates about removing the Union flag these arguments would be renewed.

To end, these are my quick photoshop efforts. What do you think?


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