The North wants to join Scotland apparently

[Gregory2Smith1]

Actually, it was bye bye Scotland, hello Gloucester thirty odd years ago. And ah ken all ah need tae ken aboot keepin' mahsel' safe when ah'm livin' theer, thanks!

not keen to go back then?

 

[GT49er]

not keen to go back then?

Not now. I've been here too long and am too settled (or stuck) to up-sticks again. But to be honest, for quite a while after moving down here, the ex-wife and me tried to move back, but work-wise it never worked out.

 

[beorhthelm]

What's stopping them just moving there.?

quite. 10k people all mouth, no troousers.


i also love the daft idea that people who dont want to be run from London would be happy to be run from Edinburgh. The north wants to run itself, probably from Manchester, or York for a bit of neutrality and history.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

I guess the idea is that if it were to go ahead they would all become southerners

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

More than 22,500 have now signed. The North is rising

 

[nicko31]

Labour really cocked up in 97 carving up the UK, it was always a slippery slope

 

[Brian Fantana]

I'm in the North, and don't want to join Scotland - an opinion I share with the vast majority of other people who live up here.

This petition is on the same cringe level as the Republic of B&H bollocks.

 

[Triggaaar]

A lot of the comments are just about being "run from Westminster". I really don't get this constant bloody whinging about being "run from Westminster". What difference does it make where you're run from?

I have no idea, but this is what my Scottish friends bang on about too.

 

[dazzer6666]

That is too far north should have been Watford Gap .

Just South of Crawley

 

[ofco8]

Apparently 10,000 people in northern England have signed a petition to join Scotland.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...g-for-north-of-england-to-be-part-of-scotland

A lot of the comments are just about being "run from Westminster". I really don't get this constant bloody whinging about being "run from Westminster". What difference does it make where you're run from? You still have an MP there. Everyone has an MP.

Would it make a difference if we moved Parliament to Manchester? I somehow doubt it.

How would they cope with living in USA. Washington in the east, LA and SF 3000 miles to the west. Plenty of countries where capital is far more miles away. Another lot of whingers.

 

[Javeaseagull]

Apparently 10,000 people in northern England have signed a petition to join Scotland.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...g-for-north-of-england-to-be-part-of-scotland

A lot of the comments are just about being "run from Westminster". I really don't get this constant bloody whinging about being "run from Westminster". What difference does it make where you're run from? You still have an MP there. Everyone has an MP.

Would it make a difference if we moved Parliament to Manchester? I somehow doubt it.

Would anyone notice?

 

[ofco8]

Understandable, really - free prescriptions, no tuition fees ...... what's not to like?

The Scots?. A load of grabby whingers.

 

[atfc village]

so it's bye,bye Gloucester hello Coatbridge

I'm sure you'll be very happy,as soon as they find out your English

Coatbridge what a fine town Sunnyside indeed.

 

[Steve in Japan]

Labour really cocked up in 97 carving up the UK, it was always a slippery slope

I agree with you. Obviously hindsight is easy, but the Blair government, in its pomp and with huge majorities, made several policy decisions which were not thought through. This is one.

 

[Southern Scouse]

At least the clubs "premiership ready" would become a reality........ Possibly.

 

[el punal]

Understandable, really - free prescriptions, no tuition fees ...... what's not to like?

Deep fried Mars bars and Irn-Bru.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

22K so far - just a tenth of the population of Barnsley.

 

[el punal]

That would mean that all the northern clubs will have to join the SPL.

Leeds United - "Champions! Champions! Champions of Scotland!"

 

[Hamilton]

I have no idea, but this is what my Scottish friends bang on about too.

I guess that it's because rather than being socialist and cooperative in principle as many of them claim, they are actually just all in it for themselves.

It's sad all this divisionism. United we stand, divided we fall.

 

[Notters]

I guess that it's because rather than being socialist and cooperative in principle as many of them claim, they are actually just all in it for themselves.

It's sad all this divisionism. United we stand, divided we fall.

So true.