House of Lords to be moved to York

[Biker 1]

I'm in the 'relocate to somewhere cheaper camp' & also believe the Lords should be scrapped in its present form & replaced with something a little more democratic.
However, I can't see them being replaced any time soon, but the relocation could happen relatively quickly.
Where to? I propose Crawley: next to Gatwick & decent train links. They could redevelop the horrid 70s concrete shopping precinct in the town centre.....

[jamoor]

Biker 1 said:

I'm in the 'relocate to somewhere cheaper camp' & also believe the Lords should be scrapped in its present form & replaced with something a little more democratic.
However, I can't see them being replaced any time soon, but the relocation could happen relatively quickly.
Where to? I propose Crawley: next to Gatwick & decent train links. They could redevelop the horrid 70s concrete shopping precinct in the town centre.....

I think the undemocratic approach can have merits. Singapore is an excellent example. Although the question is how do you choose the undemocratic people.

[vaud]

jamoor said:

Population centre its not far off.

Indeed. It's about Derby, IIRC.

[paulrockliffe]

jamoor said:

paulrockliffe said:

Birmingham is nowhere near the centre of the country.

Population centre its not far off.

This seems to be shifting the goal posts a fraction! Chappo said Birmingham was the centre of the Country, when anyone looking at a map can see that it's not. It's actually Haltwhistle. Which is 200 miles further North. Ie nowhere near Birmingham.

Haltwhistle would make a good dhead filter, so lets go with that. Commutable from Carlisle, Newcastle or Durham if the Lords are a bit posh, though I suspect those ones will stay in London and complain to anyone that will listen.

[otolith]

paulrockliffe said:

jamoor said:

paulrockliffe said:

Birmingham is nowhere near the centre of the country.

Population centre its not far off.

This seems to be shifting the goal posts a fraction! Chappo said Birmingham was the centre of the Country, when anyone looking at a map can see that it's not. It's actually Haltwhistle. Which is 200 miles further North. Ie nowhere near Birmingham.

Haltwhistle would make a good dhead filter, so lets go with that. Commutable from Carlisle, Newcastle or Durham if the Lords are a bit posh, though I suspect those ones will stay in London and complain to anyone that will listen.

There are multiple ways of defining it. That's not even a particularly meaningful one - if we were drawing lines between extremities, why the longest NS axis rather than Lands End to Shetland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_points_of_the...

Having the position shifted by distant, empty land areas seems silly - centre of population seems more sensible, though it would probably be even more sensible to do it by travelling time rather than distance as the crow flies.