You Southern, Capital-Inhabiting Scum

[ChillDoubt]

Well, not quite, but Vince Cable is blaming you:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25444981

[Zacs-Master]

Absolutely correct. It's time to make London a separate Principality and Leeds the new capital.

[Old_Geezer]

It's politicians who set the framework; if they allow one area to attract all they have only themselves to blame.

[ChillDoubt]

Is rthis you Zacs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuP1eycaA6c

[youngmafbog]

Cable off on one again. He is the Liberals worst nightmare and is clearly talking tripe.

Personally I would be glad to draw a line from the Watford Gap and have done with it. Get out of Europe and passports only to cross it.

If only.

[bazwillrun]

vince who...oh, that rambling idiot cable

[Spoonboy]

That would be the Lords and their signing in and out for £300 a day. Easy money for those in Government.

[New Judge]

Not for the first time the good Doctor Cable is talking out of an orifice most usually used for expelling solid waste.

Whether he and his LibDem chums like it or not, the vast majority of business people who travel by air are headed for, or departing from London and the Home Counties. As far as arriving tourists go, I would imagine that most of them are headed for a similar area. Adequate arrangements are already in place for UK tourists to depart from an airport close to their homes.

So there is no sense in asking a visiting businessman from, say, Hong Kong, to arrive at Leeds-Bradford or Exeter and then hop on a train which will probably increase his overall journey time by another 25-50%. The airlines know this (that's why you don't see too many departures from Leeds-Bradford to Hong Kong or Singapore) and so do the airport operators. Together they know a bit more about air travel habits than all of the government put together, let along "Vince".

Far from sucking the life out of the rest of the country London provides the life blood that keeps most of it afloat.

[Zacs-Master]

'So there is no sense in asking a visiting businessman from, say, Hong Kong, to arrive at Leeds-Bradford'

There will be when Leeds is the new capital!

[emmie]

he is a nob head.

[emmie]

can see all the millions of tourists we get every year traipsing off to Leeds, ha ha

[craft1948]

I wonder how the millions of tourists we have York get here............

[viv38]

"he is a nob head" Wow, that's strong for you emmie (lol).

[craft1948]

^ in

[emmie]

i would have said a lot worse, but i wish to keep my account -

[jomifl]

London is nearer to Europe where the money comes from. The 'North' is nearer to North America where the money doesn't come from. That is why we are in the EU.

[emmie]

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/6284701.record_number_of__tourists_visit_york/

[emmie]

London is one of the world's leading tourism destinations, and the city is home to an array of famous tourist attractions. London attracted 15.3 million international visitors in 2011, making it one of the world's most visited in terms of international visits.

[New Judge]

"I wonder how the millions of tourists we have York get here............ "

Most of them originate from within the UK, craft.

"The survey also showed 800,000 of York’s seven million-plus visitors stayed overnight and 300,000 came from abroad,"

Believe me, if there was a market to provide more international flights to the provinces, the airlines, travel companies and others would find a way to provide them. They don't need Dr Cable (or anybody else in government) to facilitate it.

[Peter Pedant]

Vince Cabl has a point, quie honestly