I've seen a picture of a Scottish version where the St Andrew's Cross (as a white saltire with a blue saltire on it) is in front, so that the St George's Cross is broken up. I don't know if they still use that.

I can see the fun they'd have tryingbto incorprate the Weslsh and Cornish crosses into it - it'd certainly be a pretty colourful flag, if complicated.

At one time there was a cod-version in Green white and Orange going round too.

I think one reason why St George's is coming back into fashion - you never used to see it excepty on CofE churches - is that the English footie fans who used to wave the Union Jack around found it was too bloody complicated to paint on their faces the way the Scots were doing with their simpler St Andrews Cross.

And that is how history hinges on the daftest things, because I'm certain that the waving of the English flag at sporting events is having effects on the way that many English people tend to identify what country it is they belong to.