Let's hope the "Northern Powerhouse" idea takes hold quickly, otherwise it's going to get even more crowded down here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... years.html

Let's hope the "Northern Powerhouse" idea takes hold quickly, otherwise it's going to get even more crowded down here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... years.html

Bloody migrant workers, going down south taking all the jobs.

Or are they just getting on their bikes and looking for work?

Or they've all been reading Dick Whittington and his Cat.

The north is largely an embarrassing shambles populated by homo-sapiens seemingly hell bent on reverting to a Neanderthal state. If I overhear one intellectually stimulating conversation among strangers per week I consider myself fortunate. If I meet three people over the age of thirty that aren't happy to remain children for the rest of their lives I buy a box of fireworks and throw a party (of one). If I ever encounter five consecutive strangers that aren't wholly convinced Asians are "The Problem" I think I'll die of massive cardiac infarction.

It's hard to be at the Left end of the spectrum politically in the north when it's patently obvious to anyone who can endure observing without tearing out his eyeballs that at best the majority don't want to be saved and maybe they don't deserve to anyway.

Today I popped in TESCO's for a few things before work. They had a woman on her hands and knees hoovering out mud from a mat. People were walking over the mat WHILST SHE CONTINUED TO HOOVER. It was a Sisyphean task.

I located the management team and remonstrated with them for five minutes. "Is this the way TESCO treats women?", "Do you think putting a woman on her hands and knees in freezing conditions at the front door sends a positive message?"

In the end **I** was the problem. **I** was clearly one of those insane people the government tosses out of the nuthatch with CRAZY ideas about "human dignity".

And then - the cherry: "It's OK luv, I don't mind doing it. It keeps me fit!".

Just pass me that automatic and let me BLOW OUT my brains ....

........ the part of England immediately south of Scotland.

You come across as a massive vvanker with this. Completely up yourself.

But just on the Tesco mat thing. What is your solution, oh wise one? I really don't see a problem. Of course, Tesco probably could have spare mats so that instead of cleaning the mats while people are using them they simply replace them and have them cleaned away from the customers, but that's an expensive and wasteful solution.

If the woman got on her hands and knees while hoovering then it was her own fault. If she's got a hoover she doesn't need to be on her hands and knees.

But I really don't see a problem with people walking on the mats while they are being cleaned. The mats are there so people can get rid of most of the wetness on their shoes so they aren't slipping on the polished concrete floors. You want these people to stand and wait for her to finish, or walk around the store risking a fall?

I'd place a large bet that cleaning the mat on all fours while customers walk on it is against policy. It's a tripping accident waiting to happen, and she could get loved by a trolley.

The North is full of intelligent rational people, but you wouldn't know it looking at some of the swivel eyed loons posting on the Virtual Terrace and Sin Bin.

I was driving from London to Newcastle on 31 Oct. The M1 was closed and all traffic was being diverted through Wakefield.

Got 2/3 of the way through the city before I remembered it was Halloween, which I realised was the explanation for some of the 'sights' I was seeing. I hadn't originally given it a second thought...because guys looking like zombies and girls with barely any clothes on is perfectly normal for that part of the world.

The North has been raped, nothing to see here