It all depends on what you define as London. I often go down to London on train and note the grim briefcase- wielding drones start to get on at Grantham, and the mood on the train changes from pleasant day trip with Hull/EY folk to 'kneel to the boss', wage slave, Next suit wearing, treadmill folk. I feel sorry for them. As for London itself.....is there a more up its own arse city in the world (apart from NYC maybe)?
It all depends on what you define as London. Well not Grantham surely? If London starts there then Hull hardly makes the Midlands - I spend enough time debating this with a mate from the North east as it is...
Business Steph off BBC breakfast just tweeted "gorgeous night with my parents watching the sun set as we had our tea by the sea. Desolate North East? Frack off."
the north is the most beautiful part of the uk agro is right i cant bloody stand those southern twats, it makes me laugh when its a sunny day and brighton beach is crammed like a chinese fish factory, not to mention the tube on a working day
I love Hull but is anyone daft enough to believe that the North is any better than the South? I find it quite sad to see headlines such as yesterday's, 5000 bread cakes handed out, by someone from Birmingham.
I'm with Douglas Adams on this one. In "So Long and Thanks For All The Fish" he opined that there were 4,000 places preferable to New York. and that was just on the same latitude. I can see the attraction and why others like it. To me its just another big, overcrowded, smelly, dirty, noisy expensive city that offers very little.
you can just imagine Downing street last night, Dave phones George "Good evening old bean, got a bit of a favour to ask - can you or your darling wifeykins phone up Lord Howells and tell him to say sorry. Otherwise we look even more out of touch with the North." The pity is the only fracking that can place in the north is Lancashire (where of course Hull is located - according to Celtic fans) and Cheshire - where George is MP for
Playing devils advocate here. Over the next 50-100 years all shale gas reserves that are recoverable will be exploited in this country. It would never be a case of 'let's only do it in the north' because when that runs out they'll continue to meet demand by moving to other reserves down south. In which case should we not welcome a multi-billion dollar industry to one of the most deprived areas of the country in a time of economic stagnation? The environmental impact of fracking is minimal, the only concern would be ruining landscapes with 'eyesores' which again are greatly exaggerated by the anti-fracking brigade. The reasons for wanting to start in the north are all wrong but it may be a blessing in disguise.
Where did you get that from? The northeast has some of the largest known reserves in the country, they are largely Jurassic Clays (mainly Kimmeridge Clay) which are an onshore extension of the major source rocks exploited in the North Sea.
You've gone native mate. I've lived and worked down there, I have family down there and have spent far too much time and too many days down there. Some pretty places, some affluent places but an awful lot of rat race wage slaves living in overpriced squalour.
