Independence for the North of England

Is this a real thing? It’s come up on FaceBook. No idea who is behind it,

Northern Independence Party

Also found this from the Independent.

Is that the best colours they could come up with? We gonna call it Griffindoria? England seems to have invaded North Wales too?

It’s Northumberland annexing rest of Northern England?

Don’t, you’ll wake up the Cornish Liberation Army…

Living the dream, just rubbing out Kent entirely in Photoshop.

Or is that the new Lorrylandia flag?

Kingdom of Northumberland re-emerging.

Why not?
Assuming we get tight links with Scotland and rejoin the EU.
Be a bit like the Golgofrinchans….

The absence of the 3 leg IoM symbol greatly perturbs me.

@Drac – I’d like to move to Northumberland one day. This enables me to do it without any effort

😎

It’s Northumberland annexing rest of Northern England?

Only Cumbria … and a tiny bit of Mercia from that map.

I love the desperate effort to keep hold of all the money in Cheshire.

Bye bye. If the North gets independence, will you all promise to stop moaning?😁

Surely the obvious answer is independence for the South East of England? I’m sure the rest of us would all then get on fine.

It’s a truly awful idea for the nation as a whole, and probably wouldn’t be economically strong enough to succeed. We “should” be stronger together.

Sadly, if we can’t get the London centric government to pull it’s head out of its own orifice, then I can see why the idea would be popular

I’d be mostly happy with that as it does include me, but I’d like to see the Peak District included, meaning splitting derbyshire or including all of it. Otherwise, I’ll need a passport for my hilly loop to Buxton and back, and the kids across the road will have issues with getting to school

Luckily we are just missed from this. Can’t think of anything worse than being lumped in for the sake of it with all of the self obsessed northerners.

Can’t think of anything worse than being lumped in for the sake of it with all of the self obsessed northerners. slightly less southerners

FTFY

I read somewhere recently* that one way for Boris to come out of the CoVid/Brexit catastrophe smelling like roses would be to make England an independent country.

Then he could present as the guy who got rid of the whinging subsidy sucking Scots, (would he still want Wales?), and the saviour and first PM of the revitalised England.

I dismissed it as fantasy at the time, but he is an unconventional PM, and likes easy solutions that can be spun to make him look good.

However he hasn’t asked the other “equal” partners in the Union (Scotland, Wales, and NI) for permission to have a referendum yet, so I’ll believe it when I see that. 🙂
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* Anyone got a link to that? I didn’t bother saving it.

East Anglia independence would make more sense. We would be self sufficient in turnips.

would he still want Wales?

He woudn’t give a crap about Wales, no-one ever does.

Can’t think of anything worse than being lumped in for the sake of it with all of the self obsessed northerners.

🤔

Definitely have their north south divide wrong

i think it’s quite a good idea, we could also split the rest into historic kingdoms. Strathclyde, Wessex, Gwynedd, Kent, Cornwall etc. Then the people will truly have representation.

For a one or two things we’d probably still want to pool our resources, such as power grids, roads, navy, etc and some how present a single united front for things like international sport, trade deals and so on. We could call it the united kingdoms.

1st problem, how do you convince Yorkshire to lower itself to the level of Lancashire?

It’s a great battle of East Vs West, Gregs* and Cooplands in one corner, Sayers and £1 bakery in the other.

*Binners is going to be conflicted

I’m in North Shropshire. I want to be in Wales or the new northern country. I don’t want to be part of the southern set. 😢

Surely the obvious answer is independence for the South East of England? I’m sure the rest of us would all then get on fine.

Oh, I like this. Where do I vote?

Thats not Northern England. The North doesn’t start until Scotch corner. Anything south of that is the Midlands

Will it involve lots of sword play and extreme hair styles?

I am in…:-)  MY NAME IS FASTHAGGIS ..SON OF OLDHAGGIS ,HERE TO CLAIM BEBBANBURG

https://youtu.be/qztynhwolz4

Way back in Brexit history I really annoyed some brexiters by suggesting that if leaving the EU was a good idea, then applying the same logic would not only imply that the Union should be abandoned, but then that the ancient kingdoms of Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex should be re-established. But it doesn’t stop there. If smaller unions with reduced co-operation are good, then the next step is back to a collection of fiefdoms, then to warring villages, and then to tribes living in huts. Which is pretty much where we are headed now, I think.

I think that map shows Kent as a lorry park post Brexit.

The Guardian’s take on this

Can’t think of anything worse than being lumped in for the sake of it with all of the self obsessed northerners.

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next step is back to a collection of fiefdoms, then to warring villages, and then to tribes living in huts. Which is pretty much where we are headed now, I think.

Don’t stop there. Don’t stop ‘til there is, oh, nothing?

I’m pretty bored of this island as a whole and its current self harm attitude to everything. It can split up however it likes, I think I’m going to head somewhere else as soon as I can persuade my wife.

The North doesn’t start until Scotch corner.

That’s practically the Isle of Wight.

The North, nice place but fk all there. I’ll stick to the South East where we can comfortably ignore other peoples’ existence.

I used to actually think the north would be better joining an independent Scotland. Then we went all Brexity. 🙁

1st problem, how do you convince Yorkshire to lower itself to the level of Lancashire?

More like dragging them up to be nearly level with us. With having Hull and Rotherham on our books we can cope with a bit more of that sort of thing.
I’d even accept the midlands into this, although if we can find a way of palming Stoke off on the Welsh…

Why not?
Assuming we get tight links with Scotland and rejoin the EU.

Did the yellow and red stripy bit not vote to leave the EU?

I read somewhere recently* that one way for Boris to come out of the CoVid/Brexit catastrophe smelling like roses would be to make England an independent country.

Then he could present as the guy who got rid of the whinging subsidy sucking Scots, (would he still want Wales?), and the saviour and first PM of the revitalised England.

I dismissed it as fantasy at the time, but he is an unconventional PM, and likes easy solutions that can be spun to make him look good.

Probably the only way for him to save the Union is to introduce some form of regional government on this sort of basis. I’m not sure his fight with Andy Burnham etc has left the North believing that he’d be on their side though.

I’m not sure his fight with Andy Burnham etc has left the North believing that he’d be on their side though.

A lot of us weren’t under any allusions before COVID