Tempted to spend all your money on things with flags or the Queen's face on them? Best you watch this first, fella. It won't actually make any difference but it does have a brightly coloured oven glove in it!
2012 is the year of Queen Elizabeth II's diamond jubilee, the London Olympics, and probably some more stuff you can pretend to be interested in by attaching beflagged bunting to your drainpipe. This video has a good look at various cheapo attempts to cash-in on these events, so you can ignore them when you see them piled up in the shops.
Coming later this year: A round-up of Olympic merchandise tat after it's all been dumped in Poundland when the games / riots are over.
(The most depressing thing about making a video on this subject is that you know half the comments will be from misinformed pedantic smartarses saying "It's called the Union Flag, it's only the Union Jack when flown at sea!!" despite 'Union Jack' being an accepted name for the flag for over a century. Chances are that people who do that have derived their knowledge of history and vexillology from a specific episode of Doctor Who.)
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