Mixed emotions on this one, my friends.

I like the flag of the Scots, as I do the flag of the Welsh, as I do the flag of the English, and various other flags thrown in for good measure. I also happen to like the Union Jack. (Due to an accident of birth, I happen to be 'specially partial to the stars-and-stripes.)

I would like to see them all flown in due course, in due time. I like the idea that on certain days, the Union Jack gets air time, and others, the 'local flag' gets a flutter.

Hell, run up the jolly roger, if the mood strikes you. But, is this something to argue over?

If SNP has run out of things to talk about, may I suggest this list: economy, housing, crime, education, energy, environment....Need I continue?

What has been won here, is the "right" for Scotland to make a (virtual) rude hand gesture to England by flying the saltire 'whenever.' Is this a good thing?

I fear Scotland's leaders are worrying about the wrong things.

Dan'l, Portland, US/Maine

Some of the comments made by Scottish politicians on this border on parody. Scotland has serious issues affecting it but they're getting in a lather over coloured pieces of rag? Is that what those millions for the parliament were for? Last year it was about getting the Scottish flag on car number plates... Even as I write I can't quite believe it. The world gets ever more expansive and inclusive but silly, angry, paranoid little Scotland becomes ever more insular. Daft films such as Braveheart feed the fires in the morons' minds. Glad I came to London 20 years ago and left them to their bitter, small minded nonsense. Poverty? Ill health? Laziness? Forget it, what we want is the 'right' flag! I give up.

Dave, Twickenham, UK

Coming out of the cinema a few years ago when they showed "Braveheart" in Aberdeen, my wife put her finger to her lips. Better not let them hear an English accent, she whispered. I was taught at school that the Union was voluntary and agreed at a time when Scotland was hard up ( Darien scheme).

Now the Scots are quite rich, chauvinist, rule us and seem to be becoming rather arrogant.

Jerry, RICKMANSWORTH, United Kingdom