Right then.
First off, the badge (Great Pebbles has been mentioned) the badge has not been dismissed, sorry if that was the impression I gave. What has changed is the fact that the new logo can be incorporated into any badge that gets chosen. I originally wanted the maple leaf to be incorporated into the badge designs so that bcuk kept its identity, this turned out to be impossible I have lots of embroidery samples here from professional companies that prove this, so, the leaf did not work on any media other than printed (max size of about 2) We now have a logo that can be used as a badge, or in a badge design and we keep the identity of the site intact.
When we started on the badge idea it changed everything to do with identifying bcuk, that was the issue we had to address. The chance to have a poll has not been taken away from you, but I do want the designs that go into the poll to have the logo in them (it can be a single colour) The bigger picture is that everything else will just have the logo on and that will be what people associate with bcuk
I have some samples here and GPs design is very doable, no dispute on that front. It just needs to have the new logo on it which should not be too hard to incorporate.