Grim In Grimsby?

[agchristie]

Do northerner's have reason to be offended? First Rochdale is proclaimed a 'child grooming town', migrants widely dispersed in the north-east and north-west and not darn sarf.

Is the north/south divide widening?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/grimsby/sacha-baron-cohen-northern-stereotypes-anger/

[catswhiskas]

Grimsby is like a lot of towns , North and South, has its bad bits but many good things, it is my home town , I will defend it to the hilt, but I know what it is all about.

[agchristie]

> I will defend it to the hilt

Good for you!

[ChillDoubt]

If it's grim in Grimsby I dread to think what's in Scunthorpe......


Apologies for trivialising a dark subject, couldn't resist. I'll get my coat......

[-SharonA-]

So it's not like that then?? It's only a film!!

[anotheoldgit]

Yes the Northerners but also the Southerners have plenty of reasons to be angry.

There is little of a divide between South and North these days, that is how England once was, but sadly no more since it has been invaded by persons of foreign tongues, foreign cultures, foreign dress, and in some places foreign architecture.

[agchristie]

Chill > I dread to think what's in Scunthorpe......

Careful, they know what to do with iron in Scunny! ;)

[agchristie]

AOG - I'm interested that you use the word 'invaded'.

[Gromit]

Cohen's characters are never sutle, and this is no exception.

Rather than North and South, the parody is about rich and poor. Two brothers separated as children, one is adopted and has a priviledged upbringing, and the other, a normal (working class) upbringing. The extreme differences in their paths is exaggerated for comic effect.

If you want a debate about the North /South divide, try framing it about the wealth gap, employment opportunities and prosperity. Not about migrant intakes, and comedy.

[mikey4444]

This is probably not on topic but :::

I was watching a film about P G Wodehouse a few years ago, and in it he was being transported on a train by the Nazis that has detained him. He looked out of the window and said::

"Well, chaps, if this is Upper Silesia, what on earth can Lower Silesia be like" !

I have only been to Grimsbury once, in the mid 70's and it looked from the window of the car as unmitigatingly awful. But perhaps it has changed.

[agchristie]

Mikey LOL!

By the way, was it Grimsby or Bury you visited in the 70's? ;)

[Jackdaw33]

When Queen Victoria travelled to Balmoral she ordered all the curtains to be drawn as the train approached Newcastle, so that she would not have to look at it, to be opened only when the train reached Morpeth.

[mrblear]

mikey, compared to what it was in the early 70s when it still had the fishing industry it's a lot worse now.

[Svejk]

^That's right, jackdaw. And those curtains had Welsh scenery embroidered on them.

[mikey4444]

The first ag !

[agchristie]

Jackdaw > When Queen Victoria travelled to Balmoral she ordered all the curtains to be drawn as the train approached Newcastle, so that she would not have to look at it, to be opened only when the train reached Morpeth.

Tyney minds huh!

[Svejk]

mrblear ///mikey, compared to what it was in the early 70s when it still had the fishing industry it's a lot worse now.///

And yet, they still keep voting Labour. Extraordinary.

[Ric.ror]

Perhaps you should google Andrew Picard and you will realise perverts reach as far as the hallowed halls of Eton

[mrblear]

Svejk

The decline was a direct result of our joining the then EEC; the port used to be full of trawlers and the dock had lots of fish merchants - now they have a museum.

[Gromit]

AOG,
Grimsbury is in Oxfordshire, near Banbury, and looks quite nice.

[agchristie]

Gromit, think you meant Mikey.