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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

Is there a north south divide - really ?

After all David Cameron & George Osborne, created the huge Northern power house - for the north east towns up North

i.e Sunderland and Middlesbrough

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

wouldnt say north south divide id say more london rest of the country divide belive me we not on wlking on pavements of gold in the south most of us are dodging the dogshit and potholes while paying extortinate prices for mist things

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Northern Power House?

Is it really a tangible thing or just a pipe dream or is it more likely just buzz words for the easily led?

How's this Power House going?

Is it going yet?

If it is, where is it ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was born and grew up in the north. And now live in the south.

I see that the divide has changed from north/south to one based more simply on pro Brexit + pro Tory Vs everyone else.

Very roughly speaking.

And the "everyone else" is broken into 100s of factions.

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By *oxychick35Couple
over a year ago

thornaby

Looks like this north south divide is being hijacked into a brexit divide there’s a shock lol

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

Add to this our larger Towns of Thornaby & Stockton

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

To generalise; people up north I find more friendly, more socialable with fewer cunts. Down south everyone’s for them self , hostile ( London) and lots can’t speak English

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"To generalise; people up north I find more friendly, more socialable with fewer cunts. Down south everyone’s for them self , hostile ( London) and lots can’t speak English "

Yeah, I think you will find London is full of tourists, so they are unlikely to speak English

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Looks like this north south divide is being hijacked into a brexit divide there’s a shock lol "

Don’t worry, Boris has promised to help the North to prosper, you are in good hands now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Looks like this north south divide is being hijacked into a brexit divide there’s a shock lol "

Genuinely though. That's the divide I see in Britain today. Not a North South divide.

The current Tories and Brexit have shifted things to a new place here.

Just how I see it though. I'm sure everyone has a different viewpoint.

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

Except the tourists can all speak English . So obviously I wasn’t referring to them uns

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Except the tourists can all speak English . So obviously I wasn’t referring to them uns "

No they can’t, I have spent far more time in London than you.

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

Fact

IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber got £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport

Above - official data/notes from 2016/17 onwards

This says it all - London is paved with fkn gold.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Fact

IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber got £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport

Above - official data/notes from 2016/17 onwards

This says it all - London is paved with fkn gold."

And always will be now the Tories and Boris are in charge

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

have you ever been to london?im not talking about the city or westend.try out tower hamlets leytonstone parts of wembley cricklewood woodgreen and a lot f the other boroghs of london i can assure you the streets aint paved with fucking gold lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"have you ever been to london?im not talking about the city or westend.try out tower hamlets leytonstone parts of wembley cricklewood woodgreen and a lot f the other boroghs of london i can assure you the streets aint paved with fucking gold lol"

Yes I have. Have you ever been to Westminster, Mayfair, Belgravia? They are paved with gold

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Fact

IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber got £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport

Above - official data/notes from 2016/17 onwards

This says it all - London is paved with fkn gold."

"London" isn't "The South".

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By *oxychick35Couple
over a year ago

thornaby


"Fact

IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber got £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport

Above - official data/notes from 2016/17 onwards

This says it all - London is paved with fkn gold.

And always will be now the Tories and Boris are in charge "

the north is in a great position at the moment because if the torrid want to stay longer than 5yrs they need to basically bribe the north and if labour want to get back in number ten they need to promise the earth see its a win win lol sorry Tory’s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Fact

IPPR North annual analysis shows Yorkshire and the Humber got £190 per head, North East £220, North West £680 and London £1,940 per head for transport

Above - official data/notes from 2016/17 onwards

This says it all - London is paved with fkn gold.

And always will be now the Tories and Boris are in charge the north is in a great position at the moment because if the torrid want to stay longer than 5yrs they need to basically bribe the north and if labour want to get back in number ten they need to promise the earth see its a win win lol sorry Tory’s "

The Torrid, so apt

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

I would bet my pocket money I’ve lived in more types of accommodation , boroughs, rented, owned, in London than anyone on this thread

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I would bet my pocket money I’ve lived in more types of accommodation , boroughs, rented, owned, in London than anyone on this thread"

Why only bet your pocket money?

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

It goes to show that London taking 400%

of the pot of gold. Compared to the Norths transport allocation per person. this means Londoners get everything done. roads fixed - cheap bus fares. The list is endless. More police budget to keep the London press happy.

Londons leaching our our dosh for decades, has wrongly tarred the rest of the south to them - like shit on a stick.

Turn the equation on its head Boris, so - up north gets all the pot of £1700 per person and londoners get the pittance of £200 - 300

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"To generalise; people up north I find more friendly, more socialable with fewer cunts. Down south everyone’s for them self , hostile ( London) and lots can’t speak English "
no different in the north

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood


"have you ever been to london?im not talking about the city or westend.try out tower hamlets leytonstone parts of wembley cricklewood woodgreen and a lot f the other boroghs of london i can assure you the streets aint paved with fucking gold lol

Yes I have. Have you ever been to Westminster, Mayfair, Belgravia? They are paved with gold "

of course ive been to those places im only half hour from kings cross mayfair ad belgravia oooo yea lots of rich russians and rich arabs not to many londoners though.you do know london is a lot bigger than the west end and the city though dont you? should try having a look round the areas i mentioned you may be surprised by the amount of poverty in those places

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"To generalise; people up north I find more friendly, more socialable with fewer cunts. Down south everyone’s for them self , hostile ( London) and lots can’t speak English no different in the north "

How do you know they can’t speak English??

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"have you ever been to london?im not talking about the city or westend.try out tower hamlets leytonstone parts of wembley cricklewood woodgreen and a lot f the other boroghs of london i can assure you the streets aint paved with fucking gold lol

Yes I have. Have you ever been to Westminster, Mayfair, Belgravia? They are paved with gold

of course ive been to those places im only half hour from kings cross mayfair ad belgravia oooo yea lots of rich russians and rich arabs not to many londoners though.you do know london is a lot bigger than the west end and the city though dont you? should try having a look round the areas i mentioned you may be surprised by the amount of poverty in those places"

Calm down , It was a joke. London is the biggest most wealthy city in Europe, these are facts .

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

about four square miles of it mabey not so much the rest of it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"about four square miles of it mabey not so much the rest of it."

As a whole , London is by far the most wealthy city in Europe, no other city even comes close

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"about four square miles of it mabey not so much the rest of it.

As a whole , London is by far the most wealthy city in Europe, no other city even comes close "

I stand corrected, Paris is close

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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham

I live in the "Midlands Engine".

We seem to be forgotten in all this.

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

even more shocking the report 2011 states that London got £ 2700 per head spending from the whole transport infrastructure budget:

A shocking 84 % of that years transport budget going to - London & south east

East Midlands - £311

West Midlands - £269

Yorkshire and Humberside - £201

North-west of England - £134

Eastern England - £43

South-west of England - £19

North-east of England - £5

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16235349

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"even more shocking the report 2011 states that London got £ 2700 per head spending from the whole transport infrastructure budget:

A shocking 84 % of that years transport budget going to - London & south east

East Midlands - £311

West Midlands - £269

Yorkshire and Humberside - £201

North-west of England - £134

Eastern England - £43

South-west of England - £19

North-east of England - £5

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16235349

"

North east £5

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

I had to look twice too !

5 quid to each daft north easterner.

Makes sense though take as much as possible - cash under the table hey Boris.

Like card trick - hey Boris

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I had to look twice too !

5 quid to each daft north easterner.

Makes sense though take as much as possible - cash under the table hey Boris.

Like card trick - hey Boris

"

He might increase that to £10 then he can tell everyone he ‘doubled’ their transport budget

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"Is there a north south divide - really ?

After all David Cameron & George Osborne, created the huge Northern power house - for the north east towns up North

i.e Sunderland and Middlesbrough "

the northern powerhouse is bollocks for the north east....

it was built to cater for the manchester leeds corridor and the parliamentry seats they thought they could snatch from labour.......

never in there wildest dreams did they think they could ever win seats up here.....

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By *oxychick35Couple
over a year ago

thornaby


"Is there a north south divide - really ?

After all David Cameron & George Osborne, created the huge Northern power house - for the north east towns up North

i.e Sunderland and Middlesbrough

the northern powerhouse is bollocks for the north east....

it was built to cater for the manchester leeds corridor and the parliamentry seats they thought they could snatch from labour.......

never in there wildest dreams did they think they could ever win seats up here....."

Fabio can I ask you do you think Boris will spend more money in the north east in the next 5yrs than as been spent up here in the last 5yrs ?

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood


"even more shocking the report 2011 states that London got £ 2700 per head spending from the whole transport infrastructure budget:

A shocking 84 % of that years transport budget going to - London & south east

East Midlands - £311

West Midlands - £269

Yorkshire and Humberside - £201

North-west of England - £134

Eastern England - £43

South-west of England - £19

North-east of England - £5

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16235349

North east £5 "

And Northern Ireland ?. The only part of the uk that has stood up to murdering nationalist scum

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"even more shocking the report 2011 states that London got £ 2700 per head spending from the whole transport infrastructure budget:

A shocking 84 % of that years transport budget going to - London & south east

East Midlands - £311

West Midlands - £269

Yorkshire and Humberside - £201

North-west of England - £134

Eastern England - £43

South-west of England - £19

North-east of England - £5

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16235349

North east £5

And Northern Ireland ?. The only part of the uk that has stood up to murdering nationalist scum"

Have you bern drinking? What has that got to do with the transport budget?

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

Good question - before the tory bung to Northern Ireland, 2 years ago to buy votes.

Anyone know how much of the uk's transport and infrastructure budget - spending per head - compared to Londinium. ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Glad I live in rural Scotland, happy to stay out of your city life squabbles now get back to work, the lot of you

Im off for a hillside stroll with the dogs, enjoy your tube journeys and dont stand to close to each other passing on infections

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glad I live in rural Scotland, happy to stay out of your city life squabbles now get back to work, the lot of you

Im off for a hillside stroll with the dogs, enjoy your tube journeys and dont stand to close to each other passing on infections "

Your life sounds idyllic but far to boring for me, enjoy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glad I live in rural Scotland, happy to stay out of your city life squabbles now get back to work, the lot of you

Im off for a hillside stroll with the dogs, enjoy your tube journeys and dont stand to close to each other passing on infections

Your life sounds idyllic but far to boring for me, enjoy "

Travel, skydiving, surfing, motorcycling, stalking (deer), good conversation & friends all boring to you,

then I choose to keep my boring way of life, enjoy your tube journey.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"even more shocking the report 2011 states that London got £ 2700 per head spending from the whole transport infrastructure budget:

A shocking 84 % of that years transport budget going to - London & south east

East Midlands - £311

West Midlands - £269

Yorkshire and Humberside - £201

North-west of England - £134

Eastern England - £43

South-west of England - £19

North-east of England - £5

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-16235349

North east £5

And Northern Ireland ?. The only part of the uk that has stood up to murdering nationalist scum

Have you bern drinking? What has that got to do with the transport budget? "

I guess he didnt get laid again?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Glad I live in rural Scotland, happy to stay out of your city life squabbles now get back to work, the lot of you

Im off for a hillside stroll with the dogs, enjoy your tube journeys and dont stand to close to each other passing on infections

Your life sounds idyllic but far to boring for me, enjoy

Travel, skydiving, surfing, motorcycling, stalking (deer), good conversation & friends all boring to you,

then I choose to keep my boring way of life, enjoy your tube journey. "

Theatre, restaurants, cinema, sports events , museums, culture, shopping, concerts, bars, pubs, good friends and conversation. I will keep to my city life, we don’t have tubes in Manchester

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

Heathrow Airport blocked - good !

Invest up north for Christs sake instead of London - south east.

The tees - Durham - Teesside airport is near to going under every year.

Invest up in the north east.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Heathrow Airport blocked - good !

Invest up north for Christs sake instead of London - south east.

The tees - Durham - Teesside airport is near to going under every year.

Invest up in the north east."

I agree, they should, but you and I know they won’t

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

This says it all really the tories wipe out the labour vote.

But like you say it fkn will not happen the re investment up here - Borris is the ultimate Liar .

Why not make Teesside airport a new - transport hub - linked to all of the main airports in the uk & europe ??

Thus stop destroying the countryside for HS2 & use our northern power house airport

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

Teeside airport?. An airport in teeside ?. Really?... who knew . Do they need a third runway ?

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood


"This says it all really the tories wipe out the labour vote.

But like you say it fkn will not happen the re investment up here - Borris is the ultimate Liar .

Why not make Teesside airport a new - transport hub - linked to all of the main airports in the uk & europe ??

Thus stop destroying the countryside for HS2 & use our northern power house airport"

im guessing they would rather expand heathrow than teeside as most tourists like landing in london and then exploring from there

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

The bold stand out fact here is it's totally rigged - bunged - and down right wrong in our country that London gets everything, has been bleeding our treasury tax coffers of billions and billions of pounds over the past how long?

Even London buses take the tax tap from us all, to the tune of 2 billion so Londoners can travel cheap compared to the rest of us paying 300% more for public transport.

The Tories have cut all countryside bus links up here in the north making pensioners and vulnerable people more isolated then ever before.

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By *an For YouMan
over a year ago

belfast/holywood

Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history. "

Biggest transport infrastructure in British History??

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

No.. whilst the north is getting the biggest lot of Boris bullshit in history.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history.

Biggest transport infrastructure in British History?? "

They'll end up getting sent a Scalextric set.

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By *hMyGawdCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

We're Northern, one of us is in the NHS and we're both vegetarian.

Not your typical Tories but we can't support the hate-filled, racist, sexist Labour party.

Doesn't matter who we vote for here anyway, there's a 21,000+ Tory majority.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We're Northern, one of us is in the NHS and we're both vegetarian.

Not your typical Tories but we can't support the hate-filled, racist, sexist Labour party.

Doesn't matter who we vote for here anyway, there's a 21,000+ Tory majority."

Which hate-filled, racist, sexist party is worth voting for?

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By *oxychick35Couple
over a year ago

thornaby


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history. "
I hope we do we need it more than London if torries want a second term they will have to or labour be straight back in

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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history. "

As soon as HS2 was announced as proceeding, there was no political desire for Heathrow.

Heathrow may get its extension, it may not. But as HS2 proceeds, then expect to see regional airports announce expansion plans. Whether climate change protestors try and block these smaller extensions remains to be seen.

Expect an announcement, probably at the end of this year, maybe next year, on the next big South East investment. This will be Crossrail 2, a North to South line across London. This will allow continuity of work for the Crossrail engineers, and would be of more interest to most Londoners than Heathrow.

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By *oxychick35Couple
over a year ago

thornaby


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history.

As soon as HS2 was announced as proceeding, there was no political desire for Heathrow.

Heathrow may get its extension, it may not. But as HS2 proceeds, then expect to see regional airports announce expansion plans. Whether climate change protestors try and block these smaller extensions remains to be seen.

Expect an announcement, probably at the end of this year, maybe next year, on the next big South East investment. This will be Crossrail 2, a North to South line across London. This will allow continuity of work for the Crossrail engineers, and would be of more interest to most Londoners than Heathrow. "

aw well aslong as them poor londerners are looked after I mean we can’t have enough money spent there ffs

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Well, London didn’t get the runway it needs whilst the north is getting the biggest transport infrastructure project in British history.

As soon as HS2 was announced as proceeding, there was no political desire for Heathrow.

Heathrow may get its extension, it may not. But as HS2 proceeds, then expect to see regional airports announce expansion plans. Whether climate change protestors try and block these smaller extensions remains to be seen.

Expect an announcement, probably at the end of this year, maybe next year, on the next big South East investment. This will be Crossrail 2, a North to South line across London. This will allow continuity of work for the Crossrail engineers, and would be of more interest to most Londoners than Heathrow. aw well aslong as them poor londerners are looked after I mean we can’t have enough money spent there ffs "

I tend to agree, that money would be better spent on infrastructure between major towns/ citys' in the north.

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

already have a north to south line across london

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By *ercuryMan
over a year ago

Grantham


"already have a north to south line across london"

Not a high speed one. Thameslink is good, but suffers chronic overcrowding at times.

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By *estivalMan
over a year ago

borehamwood

was thinking more the northern line you can pretty much get from the edge of hertfordshire to the edge of surrey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We're Northern, one of us is in the NHS and we're both vegetarian.

Not your typical Tories but we can't support the hate-filled, racist, sexist Labour party.

Doesn't matter who we vote for here anyway, there's a 21,000+ Tory majority."

Wow... I had no idea the NHS employed eugenecists

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By *amantMan
over a year ago

Alnmouth


"We're Northern, one of us is in the NHS and we're both vegetarian.

Not your typical Tories but we can't support the hate-filled, racist, sexist Labour party.

Doesn't matter who we vote for here anyway, there's a 21,000+ Tory majority."

The *midlands* is definitely not the North. It might be many things but it isn't that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"We're Northern, one of us is in the NHS and we're both vegetarian.

Not your typical Tories but we can't support the hate-filled, racist, sexist Labour party.

Doesn't matter who we vote for here anyway, there's a 21,000+ Tory majority.

The *midlands* is definitely not the North. It might be many things but it isn't that."

Bit of Northism going on there

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By *hMyGawdCouple
over a year ago

Midlands


"The *midlands* is definitely not the North. It might be many things but it isn't that."

Haha to most people (ie Londoners) it is.

There's been a few studies to define it on cultural or geographical factors. Some had the "North" starting at Leicester.

Mrs is from Rotherham so she's definitely in anyway

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By *ice__bloke OP   Man
over a year ago

redcar

About time we had South - North bias ;p

Starting on Fab

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