2blue
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Sweep...... tell me.... have you ever spent time in the North? Details please!!!!!
Baroness Thatcher Dead
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SwingsitlikeHogan
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IF northerners in general feel differently than southerners about Thatcher and what she eschewed and had done, then either they have good reason to; they have chips on their shoulders, or perhaps they think differently about those around themselves who suffered badly when they may not have.
Living in Surrey with a wife from Derbyshire WE certainly notice the difference in attitude, values and what is important in life down here than from where we are from - and we will move back up north in time as in we don't really like it - nice as oit is down here it doesn't sit easy with us.
Living in Surrey with a wife from Derbyshire WE certainly notice the difference in attitude, values and what is important in life down here than from where we are from - and we will move back up north in time as in we don't really like it - nice as oit is down here it doesn't sit easy with us.
Doon frae Troon
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Which begs the question. Why should the rest of the UK prop up London?
USER1999
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I think you'll find London props up most of the uk. Inside the m25 we'd happily devolve from the uk!
DCB
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Could someone explain where the North starts and where the South ends please ? I've never understood that imaginary demarcation line that seems to be drawn somewhere across England.
SocketRocket
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I think people in Scotland have been proped up quite nicely by England in recent years. We dont have free Tuition Fees and medication, how do you think your local Government affords it?
DCB
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They can't and it'll come back to bite us on the bum in years to come. Hopefully then someone with a bit more foresight than King Eck will be running the place
SocketRocket
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Good point. I mentioned this in an earlier post, do the Midlands, the South West, Wales qualify. Or is it a divisive statement to only apply to the South East. Try telling a farm worker in Herefordshire that they are well paid.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Sounds like you are a hoot of a neighbour. Somehow I think that if you moved North you would still not like the people around you.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
Why play around with semantics, the conservatives had more votes in each electorial district than any other candidate. You know well thats what I meant.
Most of the Midlands and South West is Conservative and would not be considered as 'Northerners', what's that to do with the Watford gap.
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Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
So if you are so successful why the need for London weighting.
Seems to be a question you are all dodging.
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
On the contrary! It seems you are ignoring the answers.
Sweep
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Well, if you want my life history...
I was born in Lancashire and I have never lived any more than 7 miles from where I was born. So, apart from going on holiday or away for my job then yes, I have spent time in the north, like EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. To assume or argue that everyone from the north is anti Thatcher and everyone from the south is pro Thatcher is just plain nonsense and in my view a pointless argument. She won 3 elections and the last one was 26 years ago. If you haven't got over it yet, you need to. We should not forget that many cities other than London boomed under Thatcher. Basically where service industries were located. Places like Liverpool or Barnsley will never vote Conservative, but to tar everyone from the north with the same brush is ridiculous and quite honestly ignores history.
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
To allow police and teachers etc to buy houses..........that is not an answer.
The City should build housing blocks to rent to the public servants. If London weighting was abolished the artificially high prices for housing would drop and the teachers /police etc would then be able to afford to buy.
The City should build housing blocks to rent to the public servants. If London weighting was abolished the artificially high prices for housing would drop and the teachers /police etc would then be able to afford to buy.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
Utter rubbish
Doon frae Troon
Ryder Cup Winner
Even utterer rubbish
MarkA
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To be honest with pathetic comments like that we'd probably all be happy to see you go!
SocketRocket
Ryder Cup Winner
I think this thread has run it's course a few times over now and has become a Northerner v Southerner handbag fight. Probably worth closing it down before someone starts throwing flat caps and bowlers or letting the Staffies loose on someone.
stevie_r
Tour Winner
So London house prices are down to the fact that SOME London residents get a weighting allowance in their salary? Are you sniffing brasso?
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Snelly
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I m a proud Yorkshireman and grew up in the North. Loved it, loved the people and the attitude to life. Since then, I have lived in Manchester, then Yorkshire again then various places in the South East - mostly Surrey, London, Hampshire and now Sussex.
I am then, probably better qualified than most of the Northern Monkeys on this forum to put forward a valid opinion on the differences between the North and South. Basically, there are nice places and not so nice places in both and the same goes for the people.
Which is best? The south. By miles. It really is grim up North. Sussex by the sea every time, as long as you have a few bob that is. Better in almost every way. And I am saying this as someone who loves the North too.
