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Old 21 November 2017, 11:39 AM
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Default North-South divide...told you so.

You know...the one Bliar said didn't exist?
The one the Tories set out to improve with the "Northern Powerhouse"...which lasted only a few days after the election.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-42049922
Old 22 November 2017, 07:27 AM
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You should sell up and move south while your house is still worth more than tuppence or buy somewhere on the coast where the prices hold.
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For what mine is worth, I'd get nowt down there, plus the southerners would end up getting to me.......

Cannot BEAR the Essex/cockney accent, it sounds utterly effeminate. Yet, somehow, (thanks BBC), we are led to believe that all people who speak like that are hard men...
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I genuinly like how people Oooop north still bathe in tin baths in their out-houses, ride around on old bikes with loafs of hovis in the baskets, breed whippets, all work in steel factory's and don't have a pot to pi$$ in. Its nostalgic, so hats off to you guys for keeping it real!
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Originally Posted by Peedee
I genuinly like how people Oooop north still bathe in tin baths in their out-houses, ride around on old bikes with loafs of hovis in the baskets, breed whippets, all work in steel factory's and don't have a pot to pi$$ in. Its nostalgic, so hats off to you guys for keeping it real!
Steel factory`s?.
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Aye, that's us.

Just realised that when the Tories said Northern Powerhouse, it was just a soft southern pronunciation of Northern POORhouse.

They don't need to work to create that. It's here, now.
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Originally Posted by alcazar
Aye, that's us.

Just realised that when the Tories said Northern Powerhouse, it was just a soft southern pronunciation of Northern POORhouse.

They don't need to work to create that. It's here, now.


Meh, in fairness, its not all Ferarri's, champagne and rolex's down here......well, it is, but its all on the never-never, all in the name of image and 'keeping up with the Jones' of course.

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Originally Posted by Peedee
I genuinly like how people Oooop north still bathe in tin baths in their out-houses, ride around on old bikes with loafs of hovis in the baskets, breed whippets, all work in steel factory's and don't have a pot to pi$$ in. Its nostalgic, so hats off to you guys for keeping it real!
Well it's taken you a while, but you finally made a worthwhile post.
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It might be grim Opp North, but at least we're not southern !!
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Originally Posted by stilover
It might be grim Opp North, but at least we're not southern pufftas !!
EFA.




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