Independence for London

[mattmurdock]

turbobloke said:

Deliberately missing the humour? Maybe you're a bit uptight about the referendum result.

Unless I missed it in all the excitement there's still no hint of how may £thousands the OP is betting on London getting a vote then winning independence. Clearly they don't have any faith in their own "idea".

Which shows there's at least one thing they got right yesterday and today

Oh, cock right off turbo - your first post in this thread completely missed the humour and then turned into condescension. In fact it was pretty much exactly the same response from all the core leavers who have posted, showing that the satire was entirely on point.

[TheRocket]

This is possibly the daftest thread on pistonheads for some time, quite entertaining though watching people get serious about it. As you were please.

[otolith]

minimoog said:

jshell said:

>draws air through teeth< Price just went up, gov'nor! Grand a tonne, toll fee, road use fee, etc

No more pesky EU pollution prevention regulations to comply with though. Double bubble!

Hmm, maybe a dome rather than a wall.

[DMN]

SPS said:

DMN said:

RobGT81 said:

Independence for the north. The rest of you can stay in the EU and remind each other how good you are, while we get on and make stuff happen.

York, Leeds and Harrogate voted to remain, so we'll be joining in with London and Scotland. You can have the slum areas of Yorkshire.

Wow actually comparing Leeds with the "Elite" of Harrogate and York, that's a first

Newcastle and Manchester too.

Its clear the UK project has failed and should be broken up. The country is divided.

[MarshPhantom]

C70R said:

Hosenbugler said:

JoeMarano said:

I hate London. You will never find such a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Yep , the place is a toilet, you only go there when you have too.

Indeed. A "toilet" that enormously subsidises the rest of the UK and without which we'd have an economy comparable with that of Liberia. You could at least say 'thank you'.

A hateful place...

I do wish people would say where they live if they think London is a sthole.

[Digga]

MarshPhantom said:

I do wish people would say where they live if they think London is a sthole.

Not up each other's arses like Russian dolls perhaps?

Oh, and as you ask, Staffordshire, you know, pottery, oatcakes, bull terriers and Peaky Blinders.

[otolith]

MarshPhantom said:

I do wish people would say where they live if they think London is a sthole.

I've lived in various places and think London is a sthole - but then I don't like urban life in general. If you do like cities, it's quite likely that some of the things that I think make it a sthole make you think it's great. If I absolutely had to live in a city, and wasn't allowed to cop out by living in one that was only really considered such as a historical accident, I'd rather live in Edinburgh for one.

[Strocky]

youngsyr said:

Are you saying that people in India are incapable of running a data centre?

Nope, he's just being an emboldened xenophobic tt

[Blib]

The fact is that London is the greatest city on the planet. It could reasonably be argued that it is the first truly World city. London's influence extends globally.

Its economy is a large as Sweden's.

No city on earth can match London in terms of finance, business, the arts, theatre, sport, culture, universities, museums. Etc. Etc.

Certainly, some can rival us in one or two areas. None matches nor surpasses us in all.

London hosted an Olympics without blinking an eye. Once Spurs and Chelsea build.their new grounds, London could.host a world Cup by itself.

Nothing on earth comes close.

Independence? No problem.

[Murph7355]

mattmurdock said:

I'm loving how democracy is just fine when we want to 'divorce' from the EU, but democracy is not fine if Scotland, London or anywhere else in the UK wants to 'divorce' from the UK. In those cases, apparently it is just fine to send in the tanks and take them by force.

Democracy is fine for countries like Scotland. That was proven 2yrs ago.

Opening up the potential for cities to be independent is stretching things a touch though.

[Digga]

anonymous said:

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I hope you told them how we all think they are strangers to soap and heading down an economic cul-de-sac?

[C70R]

Digga said:

Oh, and as you ask, Staffordshire, you know, pottery, oatcakes, bull terriers and Peaky Blinders.

Ah yes. Staffordshire, world-renowned for... pottery and JCBs.

Home to such delights as Stoke-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood. I quite regularly see Stoke and Barton listed in those "Top 10 places to live in the world" polls, so I suppose you might be onto something.

(In before "but... but... we've got nice green bits", because it's inconceivable to anyone from the North that a Londoner might venture the short trip to one of the many beautiful green bits that border our city.)

[Digga]

C70R said:

Digga said:

Oh, and as you ask, Staffordshire, you know, pottery, oatcakes, bull terriers and Peaky Blinders.

Ah yes. Staffordshire, world-renowned for... pottery and JCBs.

Home to such delights as Stoke-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood. I quite regularly see Stoke and Barton listed in those "Top 10 places to live in the world" polls, so I suppose you might be onto something.

(In before "but... but... we've got nice green bits", because it's inconceivable to anyone from the North that a Londoner might venture the short trip to one of the many beautiful green bits that border our city.)

Don't think you'll see Stoke, but Barton has been in one of those spurious lists, as has Abbots Bromley in its time, but not Smoke on Stink, definitely.

BTW, I was only yanking his chain about London.

[Justices]

TeamD said:

EFA, but if you must can you ensure that you take Bod Geldoff with you?

For god's sake man, serious threats like these should have us all working extra hard on a harmonious United Kingdom!

[C70R]

Digga said:

C70R said:

Digga said:

Oh, and as you ask, Staffordshire, you know, pottery, oatcakes, bull terriers and Peaky Blinders.

Ah yes. Staffordshire, world-renowned for... pottery and JCBs.

Home to such delights as Stoke-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood. I quite regularly see Stoke and Barton listed in those "Top 10 places to live in the world" polls, so I suppose you might be onto something.

(In before "but... but... we've got nice green bits", because it's inconceivable to anyone from the North that a Londoner might venture the short trip to one of the many beautiful green bits that border our city.)

Don't think you'll see Stoke, but Barton has been in one of those spurious lists, as has Abbots Bromley in its time, but not Smoke on Stink, definitely.

BTW, I was only yanking his chain about London.

The above was meant with a sarcastic tone, which may not necessarily translate well. The Peak District is lovely and all, but it would be like living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland after being a Londoner.

[Blib]

C70R said:

Ah yes. Staffordshire, world-renowned for... pottery and JCBs.

Home to such delights as Stoke-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood. I quite regularly see Stoke and Barton listed in those "Top 10 places to live in the world" polls, so I suppose you might be onto something.

(In before "but... but... we've got nice green bits", because it's inconceivable to anyone from the North that a Londoner might venture the short trip to one of the many beautiful green bits that border our city.)

47% of London is green space.....

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[TwigtheWonderkid]

Digga said:

Not up each other's arses like Russian dolls perhaps?

I hate Russian dolls, they're so full of themselves.

[C70R]

Blib said:

C70R said:

Ah yes. Staffordshire, world-renowned for... pottery and JCBs.

Home to such delights as Stoke-on-Trent and Barton-under-Needwood. I quite regularly see Stoke and Barton listed in those "Top 10 places to live in the world" polls, so I suppose you might be onto something.

(In before "but... but... we've got nice green bits", because it's inconceivable to anyone from the North that a Londoner might venture the short trip to one of the many beautiful green bits that border our city.)

47% of London is green space.....

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Indeed. And it's mostly around the edges.

[hedgefinder]

Blib said:

If we in London leave, who on earth is going to pay for your benefits?

I've watched cant pay we'll take it away - the majority of it seems to be filmed in London....

Edited by hedgefinder on Friday 24th June 17:32

[Maxf]

C70R said:

Indeed. And it's mostly around the edges.

The queen lives in London, she controls the Army. Therefore we'd take the bits we wanted (probably the South East) and grow crops or just import them with our massive wealth, airports and seaports...

Just need Her Maj to get on board now.