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1. It was the flag designated for use by the regional government. Since it's creation, it was always the defacto civil flag and still is. Irrespective, in British contexts ""officialness"" has little definition. The talk page you link to offers little new, apart from your regurgitation of issues that were covered months, if not years ago.
2. If you say so - I'm sure I will lose lots of sleep over it.  "