THE positioning of the flags above Fishguard Town Hall has come in for criticism.

For many years the Union Flag has flown above the Red Dragon, but now a campaign has been launched by Plaid Glyndwr, a nationalist party formed in 2012, which claims it is “wholly unacceptable” that the “tatty” UK flag flies above the Welsh one.

The party calls the status quo an “unending insult the bastions of Fishguard Town Hall bestows upon its citizens.”

In a letter the party’s chairman Dennis Morris, who lives in Wrexham, said: “How disgusting! Can Fishguard and Goodwick Town Council please stop flying the Union Flag above our Welsh national flag from the town hall.

“It’s so embarrassing.

“This unnecessary, submissive and colonial habit should have died out many years ago alongside the British Empire.”

He and his party are now calling for the Welsh flag to at least get equal status with the Union flag.

The Mayor of Fishguard and Goodwick, Councillor Richard Grosvenor said: “The town hall and therefore the flags are responsibility of Pembrokeshire County Council. I understand this 'issue' has been raised by a minor nationalist group based in Wrexham, not locally.”

A Pembrokeshire County Council spokesman said: “We take advice regarding flag-flying from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for the UK Government which issues dates for hoisting and etiquette.

“The advice states that the appropriate National flag may not be flown in a more prominent position than the Union flag.”

The battle over Fishguard Town Hall flags is not new – it dates back to 1999, when the county council told the then mayor of Fishguard and Goodwick, Cllr Malcolm James to stop flying the Welsh flag above the Union flag as he was breaking the law.

Mr James said he found it “incredible that here in Wales we are not allowed to give due prominence to our own national flag.”

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