Whining northerners
Is it any surprise that southerners generally hold much of the north in disdain? The people who live there seem to delight in building their homes on flood plains, not bothering to buy insurance, and then relying on government hand-outs (ie, southerners' money) to bail them out.
The moment the floods started last month in the north, there they were whinging to the press about how they had no insurance and that I should foot the bill. Compare with this weekend's flooding in the south, where people seem to have put up, shut up, and got on with clearing up.
This clear difference in culture makes a persuasive argument for English regional devolution and not just the answering of the West Lothian Question but also of the Why Does The South Subsidise The North question.
We need not merely devolution but a wall to divide us. And with modern technology it could be made to work: just as the Glastonbury fence keeps the scousers out of the festival so could the New Wall keep the northerners out of God's counties. For I would not merely use it to keep out the northerners but anyone not in these blessed Home Counties.
We would not merely be helping ourselves but them also. End this dependency culture and teach them to stand alone.
We should call the wall Cantrell's Wall.
Posted by Geeklawyer on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 at 17:41:43