A new flag for Dorset could soon be seen flying. An upsurge in support for the counties own flag has seen articles published in the Dorset Echo, the Bournemouth Echo and on local radio station WessexFM .
For more information on the proposed new Dorset flag visit the Flag For Dorset website.
Keith Lawson said,
July 19, 2008 at 5:16 am
A bit premature, creating the impression that this design is to be the Dorset Flag – no design has been selected yet (July 2008). This design has received the most attention, due to the marketing skills of Dave White and his partners, but has yet to be publicly accepted. That may well happen, but let’s be accurate until then.
Stephen Coombs said,
August 15, 2008 at 5:01 am
Isn’t Keith Lawson getting two things mixed up?
“No design has been selected yet” implies that there is a special body or individual entitled to do just that. But only the heralds at the ancient College of Arms in London have that rôle and they won’t lift a finger unless asked to by the government. The County Council certainly has no mandate to make rulings on this sort of thing.
“Publicly accepted” can only mean that people choose to fly a flag that they themselves associate with Dorset. Up to now the only Dorset flag to have received any degree of public acceptance is the red, white and gold flag sometimes known as St. Wite’s Cross.
It is quite on the cards that when the competition is over a flag will be “selected” (by the council according to the somewhat arbitrary procedures they have made up for the occasion) and yet never be accepted by the majority of Dorset people. It will be a case of the survival of the fittest. Popular flags are not determined by polls but by poles – flagpoles, that is.