Englands Second City

[HRH]

There must be a lot of people posting on here who live/are from BirMINGham as emotional bias that is the only reason I can see why they are leading this poll! The place is a sty and thats an insult to pigs.

[Numptycorner]

You cant be serious!

I have met grown adults that couldn't draw you a map of the UK and place the major cities on it, only the other week I met someone who though Middlesbrough was near Birmingham. You'd expect such geographical illiteracy in the US but this is a very small country with supposedly more informed people. These people never travel very far and have absolutely no interest in the rich history of these isles, infact they are brainwashed into thinking they live in some kind of utopia part of the UK. It beggars belief when you look around some of the concrete sh1tholes of commutersville UK that apparently are so good they never leave.

[gingerjedi]

Myth. Most of the wealth created in Britain appears to be created at the registered office of the company that does it.

Vodafone's 16 million subscribers might as well all be in London, as far as profit centre location goes.
BP's oil rigs out in the North Sea post their profit in London. In fact so do the Russian ones.

Conversely, infrastructure projects in London are usually classified as national projects, whereas those elsewhere are regional. So London's cost seems lower than it is.

The reality is, as for capitals and empires throughout history, that the rest of the country subsidises London. I don't mind, that is in the nature of things. But I won't shut up when someone describes it as if the wealth flowed the other way (this applies especially whan that someone is a loud prat called Ken).

I'm just going on what an article said in the Indy last month, it was sent to me from a London mate who works in finance and takes great pleasure in going on about how he is part of the powerhouse that keeps the country afloat, he talks a lot of tulip though.

Dam statistics!

[Euro-commuter]

It was our industrial capital

No, that was Glasgow.

[wendigo100]

I have met grown adults that couldn't draw you a map of the UK and place the major cities on it.

I'm good at it. When I was eight I got five merits at school for drawing GB from my head with several major cities correctly positioned.

That was in Norwich, and some of my classmates were aghast that there was something beyond Norfolk.

[wendigo100]

There must be a lot of people posting on here who live/are from BirMINGham as emotional bias that is the only reason I can see why they are leading this poll! The place is a sty and thats an insult to pigs.

Yes, yes, it might be a sty, but that wasn't the poll - it is still the second city.

[gingerjedi]

It was our industrial capital whereas London is the administrative one!

What’s Industry? We don't need that do we? Let’s just sell burgers and push paperwork about, after all the other leading economies of the world aren’t backed up by some sort of industry... oh wait a minute

[shaunbhoy]

Where's the option for Saffron Walden?

It was city with a "c" zeit, not an "sh"

hth

SB

[BOBJ]

Where's the option for Saffron Walden?

Whats Saffron Walden? It sounds like a disease...