BBC News Morons Don’t Know The Correct Isle Of Man Flag

Hard to tell what’s more upsetting – my country letting me down by being the first to sanction legal murder (but again, we were the last to abolish hanging), or the BBC being so utterly clueless as to the Isle of Man flag.

So for the benefit of those useless skeets:

This is the Brattagh Vannin with the Trie Cassyn, and don’t you forget it!

It has been the flag since 1966 … or 1967, or 1968, or 1971 … depends whose version of the story you’re hearing … when the old flag was ‘standardised’ for reasons never quite made clear (and which royally pissed off the local tourist shops that now had piles of obsolete tourist nik naks).

The old one was ‘officially’ adopted on 1st December 1932, although it had been in common use in various forms since the 13th century, the move being in response to diplomatic rows (what else?) about Manx civilian craft flying ‘fancy flags’ instead of the approved UK civil ensign (which as Ellan Vannin was never part of the UK, as far as any true Manx were concerned they could ram right up their arses).

What’s important is that the Trie Cassyn (Three Legs) are always seen to be running towards the flagpole – and thus symbolically towards the Isle of Man – as opposed to the old flag which always gave the impression of running towards the Steam Packet to escape.

As for the BBC, if it was a bloody Pride flag (all 2 507 364 of them) or one for Furries or some Pacific micronation – where the Great Chieftain still tosses off all the young warriors when they attain manhood (with some ceremony, of course) to please the goddess Unga Bunga and ensure the sun rises, the moon sets and their buttered toast never lands marmalade side down – no one’s heard of or cares except Tristran the BBC executive who went to Oxford with the Chieftain’s son to his fourth wife (twice removed and third on the left), you’d be bloody sure they’d know the correct one then with full chapter and verse behind it!