It's so bad up north that everyone should move to the south

[panther]

why move south?, if anything id move further north!.....to bonny scotland

[MargaretR]

Why move? - just give Scotland independance
and resite the border just north of Birmingham

[Eric]

I think it's a great idea for the people of the North to move South .... arm yourselves lads and lasses .... grab your weapons, march down there, kick the crap out of the southerners and take over the whole damn country .... let's get back to the days of Richard lll, when the power was in the North (where it belongs)

[Eric]

Originally Posted by [email protected]

Why move? - just give Scotland independance
and resite the border just north of Birmingham

Actually the River Trent would make a good southern boundry for the North ....

Just think how much fun it would be watching the Scottish Premier League

[vera]

Has this idiot thought about how ordinary working class people from the North West would be able to afford housing in London and it's surrounding areas? As a southerner myself i often keep an eye on the price of houses down there, there is no earthly chance i could ever afford to move back South, not that i want to, as a house that could cost £80,000 here would cost well over £150,000 there. How many North Westeners could afford that, in fact that would probably be for a one bedroom flat if you were lucky.

[cashman]

i have lived north, midlands, and south, though a lancastrian by birth, its not just about district/area its about people n that muppet on the news was certainly not a northerner,wonder HOW much money this right wing clown was paid fer producing this masterpiece of stupidity?

[lancsdave]

Think it's a great idea. go on ****** off the lot of you

[Eric]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Think it's a great idea. go on ****** off the lot of you

I already did ..... In Canada we don't just live in the north .... We are the north, strong and free ... and a little on the chilly side in winter

[Mancie]

Hope it dosent come to this!..northerners trying to break into London at Watford

[Loz]

What an absolute idiot!
Didn't he realise how much us northerners would be angry and insulted by such comments?
Has he not heard that Liverpool is the Capital of Culture or that Leeds is one of the fastest growing Cities in Britain?
I really wish i could say what i really feel about this but don't fancy a ban so will keep quiet!
Really made me angry though.

[entwisi]

Don't get angry, get even

I'm surprised he as an intelligent person didn't read his own report and think "ooo, I bet this upsets a few northerners...... I'd better not publish it"

[Gayle]

The Policy Exchange is the Conservatives favoured think tank but even Cameron has realised how dumb this report is and tried to distance himself from it.

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by Gayle

Is that why no one voted for me?

I can assure you I've only printed the words that I would let children read. The ones I thought about using are probably more in line with yours.

Well not quite no one Gayle, it was just that you didn't get as many as your opponent, who's name escapes me for the minute

Even so I had to tone down my language, or take the thread into the over 18s

[jambutty]

Nah! This is a clever ruse to depopulate the country.

Half the northern population moves down south, then when global warming hits with a vengeance, most of the south of England is claimed by the sea and drowns all the people, the survivors will have room up north to go to.

[West Ender]

Why is everyone getting into a tizzy over the ramblings of a prat? Let him carry on and, with luck, he and his ilk will stay right where they are and leave us Northerners in peace. The trouble is Londoners, in particular, often "discover" places like the Ribble Valley, the Yorkshire Dales and coastal Northumberland, among others, and they start to invade us.

Just ignore this twerp and, hopefully, he'll go away.