Move to the South you idle Northerners

[Gromit]

David Cameron's favourite 'think tank' Policy Exchange has said Liverpool and Sunderland should be shut down and called for 3 million more homes to be built in London, Oxford and Cambridge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2549868 /Northerners-advised-to-move-south-away-from-f ailing-cities.html

Sounds like fun?

[rabbitygirl]

The south is full. I'd had enough. Don't know enough about the north, so avoided it. Moved to the Midlands. Recommended. Bit like sitting on the fence I suppose....

[helliebobs]

I'll go if they open a decent chippy, one that sells gravy. And obviously if I can bring my whippet.

[bensmum]

There's too many people down here already. Hampshire is just one big car park or traffic jam most of the time now.

[rabbitygirl]

.... and southern chippy's doing mushy peas are run by those originally from 'oop North'....

[helliebobs]

There ain't no call for it? So why do so many people come in and ask for it then?! Nah, I'll stay in the beautiful north thanks, with my rain and my funny accent :)

[david1702198]

you should all come up to Scotland!!! Weve got plenty of space!!!

[lubecki161]

No dont! We are full!

[flip_flop]

Gravy with chips??? Weird northern monkeys.

[rov1200]

Almost as bad as the Marie Antoinette quote, "very short on bread so let them eat cake". How the bl00dy hell are Northerners supposed to pay the exhorbitant prices of property down South?

[Richard1966]

I moved to the south coast from Yorkshire in the early 90's. I'd go back like a shot if it wasn't for the kids being at school

[New Judge]

However daft or otherwise the "Think Tank's" idea may appear, what can be said is that it makes one big leap of logic which perhaps cannot be substantiated. That is, it assumes that it�s the cities themselves that are the cause of the problem, and it is not the fault of the people that live there.

The main thrust of the report focuses on lack of job opportunities. At present one in four of Liverpool�s working population is out of work. (It is also interesting to note that it has the highest rate of alcohol-related A&E admissions in the country, but that�s another issue).

Look in the Liverpool Echo and you will find hundreds of job vacancies. They are not all brain surgeon vacancies. There are jobs advertised for sheet metal workers, bakery assistants, labourers as well as more professional and skilled jobs. I don�t often believe what the government tells me, but I am inclined to accept that untold millions of pounds have been poured into areas such as those mentioned in the report in an effort to generate new opportunities and that some of it must have had some effect.

It is true there is no longer any shipbuilding undertaken in Liverpool, and there is no more coal mining around Newcastle. Equally true is that there is no longer any dock work in London and a much smaller maritime industry in Southampton. Times change and it is no longer valid to blame Margaret Thatcher.

If Liverpool was to �close down� and its population move elsewhere would the 25% unemployed (who would no doubt receive generous assistance with their forced relocation) be any more willing or able to seek employment than they are at present?

[littleoldme]

Like we haven't got enough Northerners down here already (most of them, from what I've heard, seem to work on the radio).

"move south and have to learn another language."

Yes, TH. It's called English. Still, I'm sure that Southern colleges will soon be running courses in Conversational Northern for us, so we can understand your quaint gruntings. ;-)

"Apples and pears, 2 and 8"

Ah, of course. Cockney rhyming slang. Yes, we all speak that down here, from Kent to Cornwall, from Gloucestershire to Suffolk. Because Laaaaahhhhhndon, you see, is just so completely representative of the whole of the South. No, really it is. That's why BBC "journalists" do comparisons between the North and the South by taking surveys of the whole of the North...and London. It speaks for us all. We're all so jealous of Londoners, with their congestion charge and their snotty attitudes and their almost daily stabbings. Jammy gits.

Ecky thump, monkeh.