Flag of Britain

The official flag of the Union of Britain is known as the **National Colour.** The flag was adopted in 1928 during the first term of elected Industrial Congress as a legislative body of Britain under then chairman Phillip Snowden.

## Description and Symbolism

Article 7 of the 1942 Constitution of the Union of Britain adopted under Chairman Mosley provided a clear design for the flag although variants continue to exists and used unofficially. The flag was to be red in majority with a canton in its upper left, consisting of three equal bands of dark blue, white and green, a single white star centered in the middle of the blue band. Variants used offically including the seal of the British TUC in gold in its lower right corner and a golden rim of the same colour in the canton section for military use.

In the official additional laws on the national flag, the symbolism were explained as followed:

* Red represents the blood of the workers and patriots of Britain in the 1925 Revolution as well as commitment to socialism and revolutionary ideas
* The three colour in the canton forms what is known as the "Republican Tricolours", the collective meanings can be understood as "the universal colours, as constant as the earthly symbols" and "the republic stands on top his native land, guided by purity of thoughts and action, unashamed before the earth".
	+ Blue represents the sky, or universal humanity and dignity
	+ White represents the air, or purity in heart and mind
	+ Green represents the earth, the eternal truth and origin of life
* The white star represent the republican ideas and liberty, the guiding light of the new nation toward in the universal equal rights and liberties.

## In Literature and Music

Our Tricolour - by W. J. Linton
Heirs of them who foremost strove when Cromwell led the world,
 Choose for hope the sky serene, freedom Albion's cliff's so white,
And the eternal ocean's green choose we for our native right:
 BLUE - the over-arching dome, Faith that stretcheth beyond sight :
WHITE - the Love of our white home - truest heat is purest light :
 Equal as the equal march of our duties and our dues,
Horizontal as the hues on the rainbo's topmost arch,
 Equal - one above the other, equal - though in different place :
Even as brother is, with brother nearer heaven in the race :

 BLUE - the far idea of might, harmonized Humanity :
WHITE - the pure, world-circling light, universal Liberty :
 Let our Tricolour be wove ! - March for equal laws and life :
Not mere balancing of strife, but that equal wish of Love
 Be our English Flag unfurl'd ! - Bear it, thou most liberal Air !
To the far ends of the world, with God's message everywhere :
 Heirs of Cromwell and of Him who saw God through eyelids dim !
Once again at Falsehood's head hurl that old Cromwellian dread :
 Equal place whereon to build, - freest growth for every need, -
And that faith to be fulfill'd - all humanity to lead
 Lo ! our Tricolour is wove, England's Banner is unfurl'd :
JUSTICE, LOVE and FAITH, above all the standards of the world !
Yet again shall lead the van England's heart republican.

FREEDOM'S TRI-COLOURED BANNER - Unknow Author
Grasp it ever steady, -
The flag for freedom's fight
Must needs be always ready.
Fair emblem of the free,
Of nature's lovely dyes -
All hopes respond to thee,
The Earth, the Light, the Skies.
 Away with servile fear
That palsies every nerve;
The slaves that nobly dare,
True Liberty deserve; -
Come hoist the banner high,
Every heart's in motion -
The cause of Liberty
Inspires us with devotion.
 Usurping factions quail,
And tremble at our might, -
Our efforts must prevail
UNITED for the RIGHT.
FREEDOM ! heaven-born maid !
All hearts aspire to thee,
In all thy charms array'd,
With gen'rous rivalry !
Unfurl, etc.

1. ↑ Decree 207/1948 on the Regulation of the National Flag in compliment of Article 8 of the Constitution of the Union of Britain.
2. ↑ The English Republic: God and the People (1851) - William James Linton
3. ↑ National Songs and Political Pieces (1839) - Hugh Williams