On 19 Aug, 13:17, "John Rowland"
wrote:
The flags are not for the deceased, they are for the tourists, so you would
use current flags only - this would be a necessity, since a lot of people
don't want to see Swastikas all over London.

OTOH, Mr Barnbrook would probably be a keen supporter of the plan.

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John Band
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On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:05 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Mark Brader wrote:

Tom Anderson writes:

I think that's quite a nice idea. You might want to subdivide further
than by country, though - if, say, 90% of plaques are about British
people ... then the national flag isn't providing a lot of information
about those ones.

Ah, but the trick is to use the *correct* national flag. For Samuel
Pepys, the St. George's Cross; for Samuel Johnson, the Union Jack
without the red diagonal cross; for Samuel Palmer, the present version.

Ingenious!

And for any Samuels born from about 2020 on, we can just use the EU flag,
right John?

Arguably 1987.