What do we do about south east bias in this hole?

I gonna drip feed this **** in, so starting in with almost no content... but anyone not from south east of this country, know this country is basically based on what goes on in the south east.

And those from other, better (and almost everywhere is better) parts of the country who've moved here sees that the south east is totally unrepresentative of reality.

What the **** can we do? I see this as the biggest challenge facing this country in the next thirty years.

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arabianights said:

I gonna drip feed this **** in, so starting in with almost no content... but anyone not from south east of this country, know this country is basically based on what goes on in the south east.

And those from other, better (and almost everywhere is better) parts of the country who've moved here sees that the south east is totally unrepresentative of reality.

What the **** can we do? I see this as the biggest challenge facing this country in the next thirty years.

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Mate,

London is f*ckin fabulous, i love it, and even though i'm from the north i've always found the locals alright....good laugh and that.

I know this is not where you are comming from with your initial post, but London is just big in the world (lol, i'm f*cked mate), so it's not likely to represent the uk.

You could almost say that London is the uk.

It's not going to be overcome bud.

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listen bitch I no problem with london.... my problem is marganalising of everything else

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arabianights said:

listen bitch I no problem with london.... my problem is marganalising of everything else

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Marginalisation is the spin off man, can ye not see it?

I guess you could follow Burma's role and build a new city and move all the big-wigs there to make a new capital.

But really - where's your knowledge of the world & history? What is it you expect from a capital city? You expect it not to be the largest population centre, the main business hub, the centre of politics?

Most capital cities I go to are like this. Why should the UK be different?

It's a market. If you can't afford it you move out.. Its not just residents but businesses, too, who do that. London and the south-east has an advantage (and a problem). It is the closest to commute from France and is well served by trains, flights and ferries.

Well the square mile has always been a big part of that distortion (well, post 1986 anyway). And the government are doing their damndest to change all that the way the industry and those who work in it are percieved and treated post the meltdown events of the last few years.

Office in Basle anyone?

It's annoying that politicians, the intelligentsia and the media, who are mostly based there, assume that what happens in London and its suburbs is the norm for the rest of the country too. In reality, London is not just larger than any other city in the UK, it's not like any other city in the UK.

On the other hand, the more such folk concentrate themselves over there, the fewer of them there are over here.

Over where? Exeter?

GammaJammer said:

Over where? Exeter?

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Absolutely.

tomorton said:

It's annoying that politicians, the intelligentsia and the media, who are mostly based there, assume that what happens in London and its suburbs is the norm for the rest of the country too. In reality, London is not just larger than any other city in the UK, it's not like any other city in the UK.

On the other hand, the more such folk concentrate themselves over there, the fewer of them there are over here.

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Ah! But you have the pleasure and money of all those commuters, these days. When I was a kid we got away to Lymington once a year. It was an event. We were going on a TRAIN! Country people were the real thing in those days. "Arrh! They be from Lunnon, look"

GammaJammer said:

Well the square mile has always been a big part of that distortion (well, post 1986 anyway). And the government are doing their damndest to change all that the way the industry and those who work in it are percieved and treated post the meltdown events of the last few years.

Office in Basle anyone?

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Count me in...

On the original point and having been born bred up north, then spent 12 years in London, then moved back to the coast..a couple of observations if I may, one light hearted the other deeper;

Unless you earn an extra-ordinary wage in (or close to) the great metropolis then your existence and quality of life isn't that good. I still have lots of friends/contacts, some of whom earn (between them as couples) very good incomes, eg. £100k between them, and yet you wouldn't know it, imho they live 'worse' than couples I know earning less than a third of that...If they hadn't been in at the start of the (latest) property boom and first bought at least (if not more than) 12 years back they'd be feeling very bitter and left behind...that one single assets' hyper-inflation has *saved* them...

I do have some regrets re. moving back up North (to be closer to family who have nearly all subsequently died) but as a Dad of 3 now, 2 at the time, It was the best move for the kids. The freedom and relative safety the 2 eldest have enjoyed up here has been extra-ordinary, getting the Grammar school educashun (and yes elitism in education is something that doesn't sit well with me) has been a real benefit..again my friends/contacts have to pay close on a third of their disposable to feel as though they're getting the same quality/value..

Oh and if there was a civil war the South would get fooked, it'd be like the 300 spartans versus the gay bars in soho..Southerners are *that* hard...

Black Swan said:

Oh and if there was a civil war the South would get fooked, it'd be like the 300 spartans versus the gay bars in soho..Southerners are *that* hard...

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Don't underestimate the southerners mate. The soho regiment have the pin stripe and umberella regiment, hair product and fashion regiment and the my 180+ mph porsche in a traffic jam chicken wing on the window battalion as reinforcements.

Keep those who drive London locked in it, for christ sake, don't encourage any to look outside and get any giddy ambitions to leave the smoke !

He is my artistic interpretation this A.M.



I've been in this town for eight years now, Clarice. I know they will never ever let me out while I'm alive. What I want is a view. I want a window where I can see a tree, or even water. I want to be in a federal institution, far away from Dr. Chilton.

fly ... fly... fly....... get out , get away... get anywhere....... get all the way .....

Thank you city workers, keep on rockin.

:cheesy:

Some of the dodgiest people I've ever met said they came from the isle of dogs,and they claimed they were in the antiques/removal business, but they all looked like Joe Bugner after going through a industrial shredder ! **** that and **** the ****ing Dias brothers...... I'm outtie....

Nick Clegg proposed re-introduction of regional stock exchanges.

"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life."
-Samuel Johnson, 1777

Which is ********, but the chances of London not being the metaphorical heart of England anytime in the foreseeable future are slim to none.

You're right iota, except that London is so different to England, it isn't in the same country.

The City of London is a Corporation, it's own state, it's not a part of England. Sort of like the Vatican.

London - Money
Vatican - Religion
Washington- Muscle.


Honest, they rule the planet like that !

Thing that shocks me most is how fast life is in London. Everyone is in such a rush.
I was in Euston station a few months ago and there were hella people in the central waiting area thingy. I was just sitting on my bag watching all these people in suits standing there like meerkats mesmerised by this board. So the flap spins around to show the platform for the train and everyone looks at it and just starts running as fast as they can towards the platform, pushing women and old people just to get on this train as if there wasn't another one the next hour. Strange.

Hell yeah , it's ok to visit, but what a mare..... too many people, outside my house I have views over the coast and open hills at the back outside the kitchen, no through road traffic, lowest crime rate on mainland and the kids can still go off for cycle rides safely.

None of this "no cycling 50 yards out of sight" stuff , kids can still have a childhood without worrying about gang or knife crime.

Big towns and cities are just too weird for humans.

Mind you no curry house, costs me £7 quid for a taxi to pick one up from the next place 6 miles away.