again the North/South divide raises its ugly head...

[Bobbisox]

A young Tory hopeful has been ridiculed by some in the Party for her 'common' Manchurian accent and scorned because she went to a Comprehensive school...
Are these people living on the same planet? Who do they think they are anyway?
I wonder who first coined that N/S divide phrase....I have never felt inferior to my Southern cousins or them me, who are these chinless wonders?
Bobbi ♥

[AB Editor]

I think part of my job should be to attempt to rile you lot up, when I applied for the job it was for a "Rabble Rouser".

Every Northern I have ever met spends far too much time telling me how straight talking he/she is, how to-the-point they are, how they manage to call a digging implement a digging implement - without managing to say anything.

A bit like politicians really.


I don't deny there are nasty or un-trusting people all around the country, and it certainly isn't a "southern" thing. My experiences of the "North" are much the same as everywhere else.

As a deep-fenland friend once boasted to me: "Yes, I just tell them EVERYTHING is webbed" - I am yet to work out what he means exactly.

[ummmm]

I was reading in yesterdays paper about the cheapest streets in Britain. All up North or Wales. Nice streets as well.....not sink estates.

[mrs_overall]

On that note, I'm off.

The black pudding needs cooking, I have a pile of matches that need splitting in half, and my fingerless mittens need darning cos the ferret chewed them again.

Have a good day.

Your sincerely
Mrs Overall
Struggling to type with frozen fingers
Somewhere in the bleakest North

[jackthehat]

I was born in Lancashire, grew up south of Watford Gap in a village so small and backwards that we thought of a night out in St. Neots as an adventure (a little fenland joke for the Ed)..........!!
I moved back to Lancashire 8 years ago, quickly followed by my parents and we all regret having been away so long..........

[AB Editor]

To Clarify: I am from an un-webbed bit of the fens, so make as many jokes you like about them. Especially people from Chatteris.

Nice article here:

http://www.independen...arly-was-1505717.html

[AB Editor]

Dear Jack,

Did you know they have their own Riot Squad in St.Neots now? Ever been to the Hemingfords? That is where my heart is.

Spare Ed

[ChuckFickens]

And vibes sums it all up perfectly.

[jackthehat]

We travelled 'over the border' to get to Sneets...........I think the locals had us pegged as 'furriners come with our fancy ways'......

Chatteris always makes me think of Dave 'Boy' Green, for some reason.

[AB Editor]

Vibra is right of course. Your sense of place is always important however, and if you can feel a place in your blood, you can call it home.

I would also like to mention it is always sunny in Cambridge and Ely is a really good place for a cup of tea. Possibly the best in the country.

[Sqad]

jth Chatteris is more famous for Eric Boon......Google him.

[AB Editor]

Oh yes Jack! Where abouts were you at the time?

Spare Ed

[jackthehat]

In 'Devil's Armpit', Northants..............

[ummmm]

Don't call the Volunteer the 'devils armpit'......

[David Black]

The North South divide certainly is valid as an economic concept in that it is a line from Bristol to the Wash in Lincolnshire rather than a horizontal line!

The thing is Cheshire and Surrey seem like exactly the same.

On matters Newcastle you get the Uber rich and the third word poor within 5 mile of each other just as you do in London or anywhere else.

I think Southerners get irritated too with the assumption that everything in the south is rosy. Try Stonebridge tube station near Wembley if you want to see poverty on any evening after the office workers have left.

[jackthehat]

Ha !
No this village is where I lived from 3 - 20 years of age. It's a wonder I'm as well adjusted as I am ! ;o)
Home of the British Army Boot, apparently.

[craft1948]

I love living in York, but house prices here are definitely not cheap, nor are they in nearby Harrogate which is home to quite a few millionaires.
I lived in London for a year on a project and really enjoyed it and met some lovely people. However as the company paid for me to live in Bloomsbury I might not have liked the places I could actually have afforded on my salary alone.