New Zealand's Prime Minister favors changing the flag

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The spiral is the most boring of the four.  My prediction is that the top left design wins the first vote and then the Kiwis keep the current flag in the second.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

spiral is the worst.

Why? It is simple and original. Like the Greenlandic flag.

It looks like the flag of an obscure Japanese prefecture. Which I guess would automatically make it better than most national flags, if also sillier.

Yeah, I thought the Japanese/oriental touch would appeal to Madeleine, which is why I was curious.

If it were centered on the field I'd actually like it a lot. Something about the combination of the mon-like design and the positioning partway towards the hoist just irks me.

[Angel of Death]

This flag has won the referendum to become the challenger to the current flag:



In addition to the others, it also beat another candidate flag that had been added as an option:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_flag_referendums,_2015%E2%80%9316

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Extremely close in the end, but Option E is so, so much nicer looking. But the worst flags still lost, so it's alright.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

That's so tacky. The design is way too busy.

[Ebowed]

This flag has won the referendum to become the challenger to the current flag:

Beats the old one!

[Frodo]

This flag has won the referendum to become the challenger to the current flag:

Beats the old one!

I like it even better than the existing flag -but what do the Kiwis themselves think, I wonder?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

That's so tacky. The design is way too busy.

Not really.  It has only two design elements, the silver fern and the existing New Zealand vexillological Southern Cross.  Granted those elements are a little busy, but not too busy and certainly no worse than the current flag with the UK flag and the Southern Cross.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

That's so tacky. The design is way too busy.

Not really.  It has only two design elements, the silver fern and the existing New Zealand vexillological Southern Cross.  Granted those elements are a little busy, but not too busy and certainly no worse than the current flag with the UK flag and the Southern Cross.

They're not balanced well.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

I'd keep the stars all white tbh. Ditch the RWB colour scheme.

[Hifly]

Looking forward to the existing flag being retained. I'm not even a monarchist.

[Clyde1998]

I prefer this to the "challenger":


Although this didn't make the final cut.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

They should have Incorporated a Kiwibird

[Angel of Death]

They should have Incorporated a Kiwibird

You mean like this?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

They should have Incorporated a Kiwibird

You mean like this?

New Zealand: The Kiwi Awakens!

[bagelman]

I'm worried about the possibility that NZ's voting public ruin this opportunity to remove colonial sympolism and adopt a real flag. Australia allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by the "muh veterans" argument and they remain a nation without a real non-colonial national flag. New Zealand's flag is the same as it stands now, I know the new design has it's flaws, but the old colonial flag is a meaningless relic from a bygone era that is difficult to differentiate from it's neighbor.