St Patrick's Saltire

In May 2011 the SNP won an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, with 69 seats. This was a remarkable achievement, especially as the Additional Member system that is used for elections to the Scottish Parliament, was specially designed by the UK Labour government in 1999 to prevent any party gaining overall control of the parliament. Although the SNP have not expressed an urgency for a referendum on independence this issue has been at the heart of what the SNP is since its inception and so has a inevitability about it.
Meanwhile in Ireland the Queen’s visit was seen as a huge success. Old wounds were soothed by words of contrition for past mistakes. With the Irish growing increasingly weary of the EU shananigans, a dim cry seemed to go out that if only things had turned out differently.
Time then for a re-think of the whole United Kingdom project, to distill what is essential and disgard that that has become obsolete. The monarchy is the totem around which the whole concept gathers, so we need to return to the idea of three truly independent states, one kingdom. Organic states where power of wealth creation in the hands of the national syndicates receives its monetary form through the Monarch’s sponsorship.
A flag that has no connotations of English hegemony though no less respectful to the English is required, a flag that says the United Kingdom rather than Britain. What better than the under-used flag of St Patrick, it has similarities with the English flag and the Scottish saltire and certainly would pay respect to Ireland. Other European countries were they to choose to join the United Kingdom could fly it without feeling they had surrendered to Britain.
Perhaps this flag will fly over the seat of the palace of the King and that place will not be in London but in Dublin, a truly radical move that would invite in royalist Europe to a new regime.