Interesting one this....
We sell thousands of flags, but hardly ANY Union flags or St George's Cross either. Loads of St Andrew's Saltaire and the Welsh Dragon though. I guess that the English just aren't particularly patriotic when it comes to their National symbols?
It's a bit like 'God save the Queen', most of us accept it because it's always been there, but I think that most English people would much prefer to have Blake's 'Jerusalem' as the English National Anthem?
Thinking about it, it probably is because the UK is made up of four distinctly separate countries that we use 'God save the Queen' collectively. The Welsh, Scots and those in Northern Ireland could hardly be expected to sing with any enthusiasm about 'England's green and pleasant land'. But what would they use instead?
Malc