London should become a city state if there's a hard Brexit
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k off to Europe somewhere if the EU is so good?JawKnee said:
don'tbesilly said:
JawKnee said:
whoami said:
Not for much longer.
London will eventually rejoin or a deal will be cut so that we can continue practically unchanged. This city is hugely successful largely thanks of its membership of the EU. Londoners won't stand for their city taking a hit because a bunch of Little Englanders don't like Johnny foreigner.
Repeating it just makes it funnier, well done.
JawKnee said:
whoami said:
Not for much longer.
London will eventually rejoin or a deal will be cut so that we can continue practically unchanged. This city is hugely successful largely thanks of its membership of the EU. Londoners won't stand for their city taking a hit because a bunch of Little Englanders don't like Johnny foreigner.And Techiedave
You'd have to pay good money to get that sort of comedy and it's free on PH
London is already effectively a city state. London's GDP is bigger than all of Sweden. West London is the richest place on Earth. London sucks up all the UK's best money, workers and infrastructure. London is so far ahead of all other UK cities by size and wealth, the rest will never ever catch up. London has left 80% of the country so far behind, it really needs / deserves to break out on its own and be recognised as a country in its own right.
Yipper said:
London is already effectively a city state. London's GDP is bigger than all of Sweden. West London is the richest place on Earth. London sucks up all the UK's best money, workers and infrastructure. London is so far ahead of all other UK cities by size and wealth, the rest will never ever catch up. London has left 80% of the country so far behind, it really needs / deserves to break out on its own and be recognised as a country in its own right.
Will London still be in NATO? London Air Force to be based where? Heathrow? Where will the London Army come from? Conscription?
Tell you one thing, it's going to be a hell of a job moving the Palace of Westminster to Scunthorpe...
Yipper said:
London is already effectively a city state. London's GDP is bigger than all of Sweden. West London is the richest place on Earth. London sucks up all the UK's best money, workers and infrastructure. London is so far ahead of all other UK cities by size and wealth, the rest will never ever catch up. London has left 80% of the country so far behind, it really needs / deserves to break out on its own and be recognised as a country in its own right.
London's public spending per capita is huge.
London also has a huge productive economy making a large contribution to the exchequer and it's difficult to disentangle the two, but it would be interesting to see how London would fare without what amounts to a vast subsidy being sent there from the rest of the country in the form of the civil service, the government and huge infrastructure investment.
Also, while there isn't an exact correlation between spending and who voted Leave there does seem to be a link
So if London is outside the UK and the EU it will probably have to do some serious belt tightening before it becomes a Singapore or Hong Kong.
London also has a huge productive economy making a large contribution to the exchequer and it's difficult to disentangle the two, but it would be interesting to see how London would fare without what amounts to a vast subsidy being sent there from the rest of the country in the form of the civil service, the government and huge infrastructure investment.
Also, while there isn't an exact correlation between spending and who voted Leave there does seem to be a link
So if London is outside the UK and the EU it will probably have to do some serious belt tightening before it becomes a Singapore or Hong Kong.
sidicks said:
JawKnee said:
Where have I done that? Also, "country‘s" not "countries".
Serious question, if you dislike your hometown so much, why not leave?
Serious question, if you love the EU so much, why aren't you going to move there when the UK leaves?Serious question, if you dislike your hometown so much, why not leave?
JawKnee said:
London will eventually rejoin or a deal will be cut so that we can continue practically unchanged. This city is hugely successful largely thanks of its membership of the EU. Londoners won't stand for their city taking a hit because a bunch of Little Englanders don't like Johnny foreigner.
London lately has just been grasping thief , once the centre of administration and services, now crony capitalists and bankers rule sucking money and wealth from the regions ,, bit like the EU.... mission creep and all of a sudden the tail is wagging the dog.....
Murph7355 said:
I read the whole article expecting a punch line. I still can't work out if Lammy was actually having a pop at Sturgeon and telling her to STFU or if he's serious.
If the latter, he is utterly mental. More so than Sturgeon which I doubted possible. And there's me thinking it was meant to Brexiteers/Ultras/Leave voters that were meant to be the divisive ones...
I only posted this as a wind up. There is a crude form of logic in there in that "If Sturgeon can do that, why can't London can do this?". If the latter, he is utterly mental. More so than Sturgeon which I doubted possible. And there's me thinking it was meant to Brexiteers/Ultras/Leave voters that were meant to be the divisive ones...
The logical falls down of course in that Sturgeon can't actually do anything whip her supporters whipped up into righteous indignation.
But it is interesting to see the series of viewpoints being expressed down here by people who are obviously sick of the lack of proper debate in parliament.
Even though this one is clearly one sandwich short of the full picnic.
Brexit still feels like something being done to London, not chosen and Davis's pathethic inability to put forward a plan for hard Brexit last week is deeply concerning.
Oh well, it will happen and hopefully we'll come through the other side relatively unscathed.
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