A lazy use of Hull in the title when he didn't even offer a meaningful comparison in the actual piece. London is a great City if you've got time and money, it's a ****ing **** City if you're skint and working your bollocks off trying to keep an over priced ****ty roof over your head. Quality of life isn't defined by a bastard postcode, and to hear some of these flutes chirp on, you'd think they spent every day of the week drinking in the culture, sights and experiences of the Capital, when the reality is more like spending 2 hours a day with your nose buried into some other tube passengers armpit and living in a shoe box that you couldn't swing a cat in, and 'loving it' because you could (if you had the time and some money, but you're paying £1200 a month for the shoe box) have a latte on the high street drinking in the atmosphere and the bus exhaust fumes.
You may be right But you may be wrong I'd agree we won't have one Authority covering north and south, but we could have an elected Mayor covering the four Authority areas instead ( same area covered by the Local Enterprise Partnership) We'll see