O/T: Cockney Invasion?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/11/29/croydon-council-urges-families-living-in-b-bs-to-move-251-miles-north-to-hull-115875-23595764/

Just saw this and it's nice to see that overnight we seem to have gained a reputation as a seaside paradise in the minds of some councillors...

 

Unbelievable! Lets send our homeless people to Hull! Time to start rebuilding the city walls.

 

My family moved up here from Croydon was i was six months old so this is nothing new!

 

I`m married to an Essex girl, and not a white stiletto in sight......... Unfortunately !!!!!!!!!!

 

Councillors? W.nkers!!! Press? W.nkers!!!
You couldn't make it up, could you? (They did!!)
****wits......

 

It definitley is amazing how even the Council (of Croydon) which is supposedly full of intellectuals can mistake us for a seaside town, and having seen the article in the paper, they even drew up a comparison table, obviously showing us in a bad light apart from giving a quick mention of the rising gun crime in Croydon. Still at least we can expect such bone headedness from the press.

 

Seaside town?

Shall we all go down Hessle foreshore for a paddle in the Humber then...? Bring a Lilo and we'll see who gets washed out to see quickest...

 

from what i remember Hessle foreshore was a great place rocks and dead birds everywhere plenty for the kids to play with instead of rats and needles of Croydon!

bearing in mind i have never been to Croyden i dont think and the rats and needles are just a guess

 

Reading this thread just brings this video to mind:

[video=youtube;x4Y5l8kv78s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Y5l8kv78s[/video]

 

I've been back down there to see my origins and lets just say its a bit of a ****hole what I saw, plus I had to travel through other South London beauty-spots like Brixton get there, I think any of their residents would count themselves in heaven if they were lucky enough to get housed in Hull

 

i've passed a few and felt lucky to have been raised in Hull even though i dont live there now i am proud to be from there and glad im not from some of the places like london manchester or liverpool!

 

THE Neil Buckley, 42 ?

Played 69 games scored 4 times, 1986 - 1991.

I thought he might have given his former employers a plug.

 

I find usually people who slag off Hull have either never been here, or have been here for five minutes and maybe walked down Anlaby Road on the way to the match, and have actually no idea what Hull is like at all

 

I saw that but am wondering if it is him or not, would have thought he was a bit older

 

Checked wiki and the age fits, good old Neil Buckley, he was our own Sonko back in the day!

 

If anyone is interested in a debate on this between Burnsy and Vanessa Feltz here is a link but personally I wouldn't expect much intelligence so it's at your own risk.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/566177-vanessa-vs-radio-humberside

 

i blame that 50 crappiest towns/cities book that came out a few years ago slating the place and putting it as the worse one the idiot probably only checked out one of the worse parts and decided through that! the TWAT

 

Also that Channel 4 programme that put us as worst place to live and seemed to limit their filming to Bransholme and Orchard Park and other deprived areas of the city.

 

I think its telling aswell that a lot of people who travel about come back to Hull and wouldn't swap it for anywhere in the world, I'm not a globetrotter as such but have been to most big towns and cities in the UK and wouldn't swap any of them for Hull