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MSPS have been urged to back a campaign for a new national emblem for Scotland to "unite" the country after the Covid-19 pandemic. The new symbol would "complement" the unicorn and the thistle, but should provide a new "emblem for our modern age", according to a petition lodged by Catherine Cooper at the Scottish Parliament.

How about a constitution for an independent Scotland? That is the kind of emblem we can all support.

Findlay Mclaren We've got plenty of emblems, it's the SNP that has sown the poison of division and doesn't want healing.

Richard Tallach I will tell you when the seeds of division were sown. When Nigel Farage, a minority of far-rght Tory backbenchers, Johnson, Rees-mogg and some other political opportunists pressurised Cameron in to holding the Brexit referendum.

As far as I remember we were happy with the EU until those imperialist British nationalists started making ridiculous claims and spreading hideous lies and outrageous promises. The SNP is a party which will unite an independent Scotland unlike the Tories who immediately demanded that people from the EU who had lived here for decades must apply for residence permits.

Gordon Drummond The SNP unite Scotland? Only if you vote for them and agree with them. Their own MPS will not talk to a constituent or meet constitutional requirements if that person voted for anyone else,

Robert Mcgarrie What's wrong with the thistle? Change for change's sake.

Eleanor Smart

We have our emblems and we don't need any more . Get on with the job you get paid for and stop messing with people’s lives .

Margaret Brown Howitt Leave our history alone –.good, bad or ugly it is all ours. If you do not like what you live with then move. The rest of us Bravehearts will help you pack.

Sheila Winter

I hope Scotland doesn’t erase all that it has been through and the symbols that make you who you are..

Karen Brooks

Yet another hair-brained idea from MSPS who’ll debate/do anything but actual work.– the work that they were elected to do, not discussing unicorns and thistles.

Angela Mcdermott They have flagnapped the Saltire now they want to take the thistle.

Sheila Glover How about a bottle of Buckie, That would some Scotland up to a tee.

Tom Hamilton

We already have many national emblems, as the image of the thistle shows. I don't think we need to conjure a new one up.

Steafan Lindsay

Just put a very small face mask around the thistle

Craig Fearson

This has nothing to do with SNP, it’s a petition to the parliament. Despite this I am sure people will still blame it on the First Minister.

Bob Morton It’s another load of money getting wasted like Gaelic signposts and covering our ambulances and police vans, We haven't got two bob to rub together but we’ll find whatever it takes for this crazy idea.

Chick Macdonald After independence it will be a poison ivy.

Arthur Thompson