London should become a city state if there's a hard Brexit
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okgo said:
There are plenty of lovely parts that are even quite green. Just have to know where to look. Suppose you didn't wander too far from Euston eh?
Yes, my over the top angry reaction aside, i've hardly explored the capital much outside the tourist zones, but like i said someone has to oppose the view that london is just gentrification and world class museums. I was just pointing out that others see London as just another nasty gang-centred city.Excellent and we have resident passes, anyone who wishes to leave London and visit the charming countryside will be charged 500% more, let's be honest, no one goes to London who doesn't work / live in there other than for a short weekend.
Cut the train tracks
Ground the airports
Block the internet
What a ridiculous notion, why draw the line at London, my street voted remain, or me and my two neighbours did why cant we vote to remain in the EU?
Democracy gives everyone a vote and you cant throw your toys out of the pram because your side did not win, we support the general consensus of the majority, is that not the whole purpose of democracy?
Cut the train tracks
Ground the airports
Block the internet
What a ridiculous notion, why draw the line at London, my street voted remain, or me and my two neighbours did why cant we vote to remain in the EU?
Democracy gives everyone a vote and you cant throw your toys out of the pram because your side did not win, we support the general consensus of the majority, is that not the whole purpose of democracy?
Trexthedinosaur said:
Excellent and we have resident passes, anyone who wishes to leave London and visit the charming countryside will be charged 500% more, let's be honest, no one goes to London who doesn't work / live in there other than for a short weekend.
Cut the train tracks
Ground the airports
Block the internet
What a ridiculous notion, why draw the line at London, my street voted remain, or me and my two neighbours did why cant we vote to remain in the EU?
Democracy gives everyone a vote and you cant throw your toys out of the pram because your side did not win, we support the general consensus of the majority, is that not the whole purpose of democracy?
Only if it goes your way it seems.Cut the train tracks
Ground the airports
Block the internet
What a ridiculous notion, why draw the line at London, my street voted remain, or me and my two neighbours did why cant we vote to remain in the EU?
Democracy gives everyone a vote and you cant throw your toys out of the pram because your side did not win, we support the general consensus of the majority, is that not the whole purpose of democracy?
jjlynn27 said:
Electricity, the internet, water. Quite simply London will buy them. Farming out work? If rouk doesn't want work, simply farm it somewhere else. As for the rest of the UK subsidising London, lol.
It'll obviously never happen, but to think that London wouldn't be able to go 'alone' is naive.
But all of that would have to come via rUK. London is essentially landlocked and has no direct access to the rest of the world without going through rUK.It'll obviously never happen, but to think that London wouldn't be able to go 'alone' is naive.
What's to stop rUK putting import tariffs on anything not sourced from rUK? A 'handling fee' if you will.
Moonhawk said:
But all of that would have to come via rUK. London is essentially landlocked and has no direct access to the rest of the world without going through rUK.
What's to stop rUK putting import tariffs on anything not sourced from rUK? A 'handling fee' if you will.
Has it's own Airport (City) and you could float too it down the Thames (NOT saying the Principality of London is a good thing).What's to stop rUK putting import tariffs on anything not sourced from rUK? A 'handling fee' if you will.
stongle said:
Moonhawk said:
But all of that would have to come via rUK. London is essentially landlocked and has no direct access to the rest of the world without going through rUK.
What's to stop rUK putting import tariffs on anything not sourced from rUK? A 'handling fee' if you will.
Has it's own Airport (City) and you could float too it down the Thames (NOT saying the Principality of London is a good thing).What's to stop rUK putting import tariffs on anything not sourced from rUK? A 'handling fee' if you will.
The river Thames also goes through rUK counties (Essex and Kent) before it gets to the sea.
Like I said - London is effectively landlocked. It can get nothing in or out without going via rUK (or passing through rUK).
Moonhawk said:
Aircraft have to go through rUK airspace to get to those airports though.
The river Thames also goes through rUK counties (Essex and Kent) before it gets to the sea.
Like I said - London is effectively landlocked. It can get nothing in or out without going via rUK (or passing through rUK).
That is true, for now. But once we turn off the magic money tap for the rest of the country and you revert to an agrarian peasant life, we will still be able to fund the airbridge from continental Europe. The river Thames also goes through rUK counties (Essex and Kent) before it gets to the sea.
Like I said - London is effectively landlocked. It can get nothing in or out without going via rUK (or passing through rUK).
And just think, in a couple of generations so much knowledge will have been lost outside the wall that your grandchildren will stare in wonder and the giant silver birds in the air that don't need to flap their wings.
Look, the view from Essex, c 2021:
MrBrightSi said:
jjlynn27 said:
Never been to London, have you? If you get that chip off your shoulder you'd realise that London is fantastic. Like any other place it has a fair share of its problems, but to call it 'urban hell hole' is downright stupid.
No no, i've been, you've got great museums and what have you and yeah it is a big part of this country, but someone needs to have an opposing view to London being all sunshine and roses, maybe some of us people in England love it for being a green and verdant land, not just one overgrown urban sprawl.jjlynn27 said:
MrBrightSi said:
jjlynn27 said:
Never been to London, have you? If you get that chip off your shoulder you'd realise that London is fantastic. Like any other place it has a fair share of its problems, but to call it 'urban hell hole' is downright stupid.
No no, i've been, you've got great museums and what have you and yeah it is a big part of this country, but someone needs to have an opposing view to London being all sunshine and roses, maybe some of us people in England love it for being a green and verdant land, not just one overgrown urban sprawl.SystemParanoia said:
nothing an air-burst EMP wouldn't fix.
no computers, no net access, no moneytap
but we'd already have cut off all utilities and ground connections and started jamming satellite frequencies.. and mobile towers would all be off and decommissioned.
It's good to see rUK adopting a similar attitude towards an independent London that the EU is exhibiting towards an independent UK! You hardcore provincial Brexiteers have more in common with the EC bureaucrats than you think. Sure you don't want to rethink this whole Brexit thing? no computers, no net access, no moneytap
but we'd already have cut off all utilities and ground connections and started jamming satellite frequencies.. and mobile towers would all be off and decommissioned.
Greg66 said:
SystemParanoia said:
nothing an air-burst EMP wouldn't fix.
no computers, no net access, no moneytap
but we'd already have cut off all utilities and ground connections and started jamming satellite frequencies.. and mobile towers would all be off and decommissioned.
It's good to see rUK adopting a similar attitude towards an independent London that the EU is exhibiting towards an independent UK! You hardcore provincial Brexiteers have more in common with the EC bureaucrats than you think. Sure you don't want to rethink this whole Brexit thing? no computers, no net access, no moneytap
but we'd already have cut off all utilities and ground connections and started jamming satellite frequencies.. and mobile towers would all be off and decommissioned.
Right, then, here's the timetable....
(1) London gets independence
(2) England invades London, with a little help from the Welshies and those Men In Skirts up there, if they're still on board, that is
(3) London nationals exiled to Afghanistan (nice and warm, no need to say thanks)
Sounds like a plan to me...
(1) London gets independence
(2) England invades London, with a little help from the Welshies and those Men In Skirts up there, if they're still on board, that is
(3) London nationals exiled to Afghanistan (nice and warm, no need to say thanks)
Sounds like a plan to me...
Greg66 said:
It's good to see rUK adopting a similar attitude towards an independent London that the EU is exhibiting towards an independent UK! You hardcore provincial Brexiteers have more in common with the EC bureaucrats than you think. Sure you don't want to rethink this whole Brexit thing?
I reckon if the UK position within the EU was the same as the London position within the UK we wouldn't have voted to leave. I certainly wouldn't as the balance of power clearly lies outside of London. The same isn't the case for the UK in the EU.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff