He's Orf Again

[Samjenko]

http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/david-lammy-london-must-look-to-be-a-citystate-if-hard-brexit-goes-ahead-a3494221.html

[emmie]

nope he is a labour man/

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21764636

[Jackdaw33]

No, definitely Labour.

[ToraToraTora]

yep Chucker Khant's is Old New labour.

[naomi24]

It's not a new idea.

//..there have been widespread suggestions from certain camps that one way of addressing the huge disparity between the capital's sentiments on the EU and the rest of the country's, is to make London an independent city state. //

http://uk.businessinsider.com/sadiq-khan-speech-on-london-independence-after-brexit-and-the-eu-referendum-2016-6

[Jackdaw33]

Actually quite a good idea. Move the seat of government elsewhere and leave London to get on with it. I suggest Sunderland.

[naomi24]

jackdaw, fine - if we move all the business with it.

[emmie]

jack, potty idea considering how much money London generates.

[Jackdaw33]

A bloke came to Sunderland and noticed a group of locals around a car, transfixed. He asked whether they had seen a car before.

The reply was, "Of course they have seen plenty of cars, but they haven't seen a tax disc before".

[RobNorth]

I always thought it was....I believe they have their own currency - it's called London Watin or somesuch....

[ToraToraTora]

yeah, how many Lundinwatins to the pound?

[New Judge]

Yes, as I've said in other threads, the idea of London seeking independence is just slightly more sensible than Scotland doing the same.

Unfortunately for Londoners and the Scots (or at least those who voted to remain) they are both part of the only constituency that holds EU membership - the United Kingdom. The UK voted to leave and that's that.