http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/ ... story.html No different from immigration really. If you were a well off southerner in Cheltenham who had a regular income, full set of teeth and watched high class sport like Gloucester rugby union, would you want a load of northern plebs coming down with their flat caps trying to take your jobs and drinking your beer and wanting to bringing their curious 13 man sport? It's bad enough with the Eastern Europeans coming over but if the floodgates open to northerners as well it could cause chaos.

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/ ... story.html No different from immigration really. If you were a well off southerner in Cheltenham who had a regular income, full set of teeth and watched high class sport like Gloucester rugby union, would you want a load of northern plebs coming down with their flat caps trying to take your jobs and drinking your beer and wanting to bringing their curious 13 man sport? It's bad enough with the Eastern Europeans coming over but if the floodgates open to northerners as well it could cause chaos.

There was a suggestion last week that London's homeless should be moved to places like....Hull.

Seems the South wants to become a more upmarket place. Mind you, with the upcoming drought the North should declare independence and then sell water at huge prices to the South. Trouble is there seems no entrepreneurial spirit up there - too used to State subsidy!

Presumably he's also in favour of banning well-off Southerners from having second homes in the Cotswolds, which will be a bigger contributor to the housing shortage than economic migrants?

I know you're on a wind up, but your membership of Sweeping Generalisations Inc is up for renewal at the beginning of March

No, he'll be one of them.

Way back in the 1980s, when I followed Tebbit's advice and moved to find work, I remember being shocked by seeing an Evening Standard 'campaign' that included, if I remember correctly, t-shirts bearing the legend: 'Go home northerners'.

And so, with another recession showing no sign of lifting ...

Maybe we could do what they did in Germany and build a big wall half way across the country and shoot anybody that tries to cross from one side of the country to another.

I moved to London in 1991 and lived there until 2000 .

I think I knew, through work and friends of friends etc, about 4 genuine Londoners. I knew a lot of Scots, a few Scousers, 1 guy from Devon and quite a few people from Yorkshire, plus a couple of Midlanders. Mrs28 is from Hull and I met her as she was also working there (sharing a house with a friend also from Hull).

I wondered then, and still do, if everyone not from London "went home" whether London's economy would suffer. I suspect it would.

You used to be able to go through it. I recall visiting the East to see the pretty girls and drink beer. Those ere the days.

It might have been more difficult, had you been born on the other side of the Iron curtain, and wanted to visit the West to see the entrepreneurs and plentiful commodities of a market economy.

Fortunately Comrade Honecker provided girls and beer proof that socialism provides for your needs if not for all your wants.