[Closed] Crossrail to be called "Elizabeth Line" ffs

Should have been the Crowe Line. 🙂

Yep. It's complete claptrap all right! Annoys the hell out of me.

Start a petition.

Would one to stop you going on about petitions work I wonder?

Couldn't give a toss really,not a bad name for it

shoulda been the charles line

coz we know them city boys all love a line of charlie 😉

until we can ditch the monarchy entirely ( along with the unelected upper house) well have to put up with this bullshit

vive la revolution!

To unashamedly steal from another thread.

It's in a hole, the coffees and food are sub par, the parking in expensive and the toilets aren't available for late night usage.

I, for one, am never setting foot in it.

Crowe line was rather funny

Couldn't give a toss really,not a bad name for it

Well, you can at least say you're going to ride Liz 😉

Not that it really affects the plebs much. It's primarily a direct line between Heathrow and Canary Wharf for rich bankers.

Most Bankers use East London Airport.
Direct to all the European Financial capitals, in comfort, on expenses. 😉

I'm still seething over the Jubilee Line.

And don't get me started about Victoria Station.

Not to mention Waterloo. Imperialist bollox the lot of it!

hurrah, hurrah and thrice hurrah

And nice purple livery too....

[quote=ernie_lynch ]And don't get me started about Victoria Station.Named after the sponge, surely?

I can't see a problem with it....but then I'm pro royalist unlike you lot of anti royalist, Corbyn loving lefties!

Very appropriate name tbh- it's expensive, it's been going for the best part of a century and still not done, and it's a way for money to flow from all round the country to pay for something in London.

Ah, my heart's not in it tbh.

I'm still seething over the Jubilee Line.

And don't get me started about Victoria Station.

Mornington Crescent

Who actually cares...

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Start a petition.

I reckon you lot would be happier in the North East

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They have a street named after a 2000AD character

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Who cares about the historic stuff - no need to change it. This is about today.

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I had to google, but I did at least guess right first time 😉

Northwind - Member
They have a street named after a 2000AD character

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I assume this was the sensible compromise that emerged from a meeting where the name "Lady Thatcher Line" was seriously proposed by a patriotic young man in a pinstripe suit.

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I'm with Konabunny on this one - Bloody Boris ( future PM 🙁 ) has already named the Olympic park after her...isn't that enough?
You'd think he was after a knighthood. Pah.

No doubt will affectionately be known as the Lizzie line by the readers of the M*il

It's in a hole, the coffees and food are sub par, the parking in expensive and the toilets aren't available for late night usage.
I, for one, am never setting foot in it.

Something In London named after Something Else In London shocker!

Like the rest of the country North of Watford I can barely care sufficiently to click Send.

We have 'Lara Croft Way' in Derby!

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Mandela line FTW.

They have a street named after a 2000AD character

Thargg Crescent?

I'm going to put this on my 'essentially inconsequential things that people give far too much of f%£& about' list.

Presumably its named after her because she paid for it all, right? I mean it can't just be another example of London hoovering up massive transport subsidies while the rest of the country is left to rot surely?

It'll be named to appeal to the Asian Tourist market. They all love a bit of Liz and Pomp, this means when they all fly in from the long hauls, they'll hop on a heritage line all the way to Shiny Town. They'll then hop on the chug chug DLR to QEOP for a meander amongst John Lewis and M&S, buy up Burberry tat then head back into the Old Town on the Jubilee Line to the Mall at Green Park and soft foot it down the Mall to Buck Hse. Supper in Fortnums or SellFridges then Black Cab it back to Heathrow to another destination on their world tour.

You could do that in a day easy.

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Briliant name. Love the choice of Royal Purple too.

I mean it can't just be another example of London hoovering up massive transport subsidies while the rest of the country is left to rot surely?

One day the ground you're standing on will be in another part of the planet and deep undersea...

It's a disgrace that so few things are named after our greatest ever monarch - everything should be named after her and we should put up with the practical difficulties of not being able to distinguish between things - it is the least she deserves for all her years of wonderful service.

We pay the bills for the rest of the UK which is quite normal for a capital

Not payed for the banking crisis it caused that's spread misery throughout the rest of the country under the guise of austerity tho !

Any source for the jambafacts? One might argue that it's easy for the capital to pay more tax when it receives such massive government spending. Transport spending per head in London IIRC is £2700 per person. In the NE it's a fiver. Most big PFI government contracts the money all flows to London. But yes of course you deserve it all.

I'm full of optimism about the northern powerhouse though.

Not payed for the banking crisis it caused that's spread misery throughout the rest of the country under the guise of austerity tho !

That's quite a combination of ideas 😯

Any source for the jambafacts?

What do you think? 😉

Its 10 boroughs that pay 25% iirc but we all know the high property prices are in london

IIRC on the rest its largely an artefact of Head offices being in london rather than the wealth EXCLUSIVELY being made in london its just registered there- take Banks for example.

Couldn't care less about the name, I've been staggered at the amount of money that is wasted down there. They have teams of operatives sanding down the concrete tunnel walls to [i]make them look nicer[/i]. ITS A TUNNEL FFS, IT WILL BE IN THE DARK, NOBODY WILL SEE THE F***ING WALLS. 👿

But they don't care, just throw some more public money at 👿

Every other railway tunnel in the UK is covered in soot and the sh*t that is sprayed up from the toliets emptying straight onto the line, but this one tunnel has to be immaculate, it wouldn't surprise me if they wallpapered it 🙄

Strontium Dog Avenue?

@grum various news reports and govt figures, from memory Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea provided 10% of stamp duty and that was before the recent doubling of top rate stamp duty which is highly applicable to central London (note it will be seen how effective it is as post the rise property market activity has fallen significNtly, you can now rent for 6 years before you match stamp duty cost). London has by far the highest concentration of high paid jobs so consistent with top 1% paying 27% of the taxes it makes a jumbo contribution. As is normal and as it should but it needs to be understood and recognised by those outside the South East.

Edit: whether its 2 boroughs or 10 in London the point is still the same. London pays the bills

I find it bizarre how much so many of you resent, and even despise, the Head of State. All democracies have one - often unelected - and as far as I can tell, pretty much only Brits actually get that bothered by it.

The alternative, of course, is a demagogue whom we can 'elect', and merely devolving the privilege to a different unelected elite - such as Hollywood stars and Wall Street moguls.

Rest assured that hierarchy and privilege will always exist. It just depends on who gets it.

I, for one, would rather have a family bound by constitutional responsibility than an unknown quantity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Assassinated_heads_of_state

A bit of moaning is the least of her worries.

What @Saxon says. France may be a republic but each town has a Mayor who have a town hall many of which look like a Palace. The President is treated like Royalty with no questions asked about his behaviour. We have far more scruitiny of our Royal family than do they of "theirs". Most bizarre.

pretty much only Brits actually get that bothered by it.

Statistics would suggest the opposite, it is just this site is full of republican misanthropes.