This may upset a few people. I saw the following article this morning on the BBC website and just felt the need to have my say.

Welsh dragon call for Union flag


The union jack should be combined with the Welsh flag, according to an MP who wants the change to be made to reflect Wales' status within the UK.

In a Commons debate, Wrexham's Labour MP Ian Lucas said Wales' Red Dragon should be added to the union jack's red, white and blue pattern.

He said the union jack currently only represented the other three UK nations.

But Stewart Jackson, Conservative MP for Peterborough, said the plan was "eccentric" and would be unpopular.

"I do not believe it would add to the unity of the country," he said.

However, Culture Minister Margaret Hodge conceded that Mr Lucas had raised a valid point for debate.

She said the government is "keen" to make the Union Jack "a positive symbol of Britishness reflecting the diversity of our country today and encouraging people to take pride in our flag".

And the minister acknowledged that a number of people across Britain were unhappy about flying the Union Jack as they felt it does not "truly represent the United Kingdom".

However, she said redesigning the flag had not been part of a consultation currently being carried out.


'State of grace'

Their comments come after a Commons debate in which Mr Lucas said: "I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales."

He argued that the UK "did not exist in a constitutional state of grace".

"Changing an iconic image such as the union flag may appear to be more difficult to achieve than 200 years ago, but nonetheless I believe the change is right," he said.

"Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change and that the reason that it will change is that we have a new constitutional settlement that affords Wales its true place in the Union."
BBC News Website
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Let's get this straight for once and for all.
The Flag of the Union - for that's what it is, it only becomes the Union Jack when flown from the jack staff of a ship - comprises the flags of the patron saints of the nations of the union:

St George - England (including Wales) - Red Cross on White Field
St Andrew - Scotland - White Saltire on Blue Field
St Patrick - Ireland - Red Saltire on White Field

UJ

England and Scotland had existed as separate sovereign and independent states with their own monarchs and political structures since the 9th century. The once independent Principality of Wales fell under the control of English monarchs from the Statute of Rhuddlan in 1284. Under the Acts of Union 1707, England (including Wales) and Scotland, which had been in personal union since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, agreed to a political union in the form of a unified Kingdom of Great Britain.  The Act of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain with the Kingdom of Ireland, which had been gradually brought under English control between 1541 and 1691, to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801.  Independence for the Irish Free State in 1922 followed the partition of the island of Ireland two years previously, with six of the nine counties of the province of Ulster remaining within the UK, which then changed to the current name in 1927 of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.


Of the principal polities within Wales, only Gwynedd retained independence until the late 13th century, when it was finally conquered by England. However, formal annexation and abolition of Welsh Law did not take place until the 16th century. Wales (with all regions united under one government) has never been a sovereign state, although a number of internal principalities remained independent until the Anglo-Norman conquest and the Welsh national hero Prince Owain Glyndŵr briefly created an independent Welsh kingdom in the early 15th Century.

So there you have it.  There is no need to update the flag, as Wales has always been represented therein.

Nice try, though.