Sheffield Council celebrated St David’s Day by flying the Scottish flag
We’re not saying it’s a sizeable faux pas, but on the scale of right and wrong, this is so wrong it actually defies belief.
When Sheffield Council decided it would be a nice gesture to fly a flag to celebrate St David’s Day, whoever they chose to select said flag to hoist up their flag pole, clearly needs some emergency lessons in the geography of the UK.
There, resplendent on St David’s Day morning wasn’t a Welsh dragon flying high but the Saltire of Scotland.
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus 🏴🌼 Happy St. David’s Day! From @SheffCouncil ! pic.twitter.com/hxN6MaNNFo
— Paul Scriven🔶️🇺🇦 (@Paulscriven) March 1, 2023
A mistake at Sheffield Town Hall meant the city marked Wales’ big day in quite the bizarre way.
By early afternoon the flag had been replaced above the city’s Town Hall building – with the flag of St David, which is a yellow cross on a black background.
Sheffield Council said in a statement: “We are really sorry that the incorrect flag was flown above the Town Hall today. As soon as we knew, we rectified this immediately. We want to wish all who celebrate a Happy St David’s Day.”
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Oh, how ridiculous this “faux pas” makes this otherwise very sensible (Except for its vote to Leave the EU) English city look.
Not the first time, though.
Apparently, Sheffield has form in previously flying y ddraig goch … on St. Patrick’s Day:
Welsh flag flown on St Patrick’s Day by Sheffield City Council – BBC News
Ach … we’re all Celts 😉
After all St Patrick was Welsh
Hahaha, I genuinely love it when people downvote historically factual statements. It reminds me of how Un-knowledgeable many people are.
This is no slight towards the people of Sheffield, just their council. I’ve heard of Sheffield steel, Sheffield stupid more like.. 🥴
How many people outside of Wales know the flag of St David? Some Welsh people don’t even know it. At least they made the effort to recognise the day, unlike others, and corrected the mistake.
Given the general lack of knowledge of, or interest in, things Welsh on the part of most people in that part of the UK, I wouldn’t expect a council in Yorkshire to recognise a Welsh non-national flag; but it’s reasonable to expect them to recognise the Scottish saltire – it’s on the telly often enough. Their mistake reveals a profound level of ignorance and insularism that simply makes them look ridiculous. And of course some people in Wales itself wouldn’t recognise the flag of St. David since it’s only in recent years that Welsh culture and history have been given… Read more »
From a Scot, I’m always happy to see our flag up any pole but this takes the biscuit, maybe it’s time to make our own Union Flag, add the flag of Cymru and ‘forget’ to put in the flag of St. George. It would make a change.
As opposed to what? The “Foreigner” flag? The flag that exemplifies Wales is the Yr Draig Goch. Which is Thee flag of the British! (Britons) Not Welsh!
Whoever raised the Scotland flag instead of the Welsh flag hope its not the geography teacher 🙄🏴🏴🏴🏴.
The Foreign flag of Wales!!! Why would that be raised? Are we foreign to Britain Like the word Welsh implies? The flag itself is fine, not the terminology that’s used alongside it though. It’s Cymric or Brythonic (British)
If you knew anything about Sheffield City Council this would come as no surprise. A multi million £ organisation, run by the comittee of a working mens club.