Foreign colours

I am following correspondence regarding the presence or otherwise of the George Cross in our national flag.

One point which baffles me is how certain correspondents who are dead-set against the George Cross "...because it is foreign" have no qualms about repeating the myth and favouring the assertion that we should keep our flag red and white because that is how (supposedly) it was given to us by Count Roger! So far as I know the good Count was a foreigner, was he not? Neither were flags used in Europe at that time!

Once on the subject of Count Roger, how I wish that people (some tourist guides included) would stop referring to him as "Count Roger of Normandy" which is a frightfully incorrect styling of the man. There was never such a thing as a "Count of Normandy". Dukes yes, and at one time they were also Kings of England.

If anything "our" Roger was Count Roger the Norman, ruler of Sicily, scion of the Hauteville family, minor Norman nobility whose land-hunger drove them to richer, more fertile pastures in the sunny south.