London - A first rate city with a second rate country attached

[Mich the Tester]

"You belong to a select club – the club of the hard-working, clever and creative people living in London and the South East who single-handedly are giving the rest of the nation a standard of living they used to be able to create for themselves. "

ftfy

[Ignis Fatuus]

Heart - a first-rate organ with a second-rate stomach attached.

Obviously my heart would do better if it were cut out and didn't have to pump blood round all those sponging organs in the periphery.

[DimPrawn]

London has two flawed "wealth" generating engines.

1. The City - Chock full of toxic debt from failed casino banking
2. Money laundering of foreign criminals proceeds, mostly through property speculation

Britain as whole would be wise to annexe London and let it fail, Cyprus stylee.

[sasguru]

Britain as whole would be wise to annexe London and let it fail, Cyprus stylee.

First you'd have to rouse your obese selves off the couch. Too much like hard work.

[DimPrawn]

First you'd have to rouse your obese selves off the couch. Too much like hard work.

Do you actually believe the crap you spout or is it just another symptom of your sociopathetic tendencies?

[sasguru]

Do you actually believe the crap you spout or is it just another symptom of your sociopathetic tendencies?

You're the sociopath: deluded and having a higher opinion of yourself than is warranted by the facts.
I'm merely a realist.
HTH

[Bunk]

You're the sociopath: deluded and having a higher opinion of yourself than is warranted by the facts.
I'm merely a realist.
HTH

That's exactly what a sociopath would say, (and think).

[sasguru]

That's exactly what a sociopath would say, (and think).

So would a non-sociopathic realist though.

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Yes. The rest of the UK can plod along like Romania then, with a similar lifestyle.

I think your forgetting that there are some parts of London that are deprived. What are you going to do with them? On the other hand there are some very affluent parts of the UK outside London (Cheshire/South Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh). It's not so black and white.

[Bunk]

I think your forgetting that there are some parts of London that are deprived. What are you going to do with them? On the other hand there are some very affluent parts of the UK outside London (Cheshire/South Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh). It's not so black and white.

We'll ship them up north. You're right about the other wealthy parts of the UK though, I motion that we form an alliance with Aberdeen, keep us supplied with oil.