Sunday 14 March 2010

Britain minus London a "huge soup kitchen-cum-industrial theme park"?

A London Evening Standard columnist derides a proposed London-Birmingham high speed train:

"At least the French have thriving regional economies to travel to and from. By contrast, we have a modern economy in the South-East with a huge soup kitchen-cum-industrial theme park attached."

Freedom Chips is of course based in Birmingham and so felt many emotions after reading this: anger, jealousy, shame, tea-drinking. But what do the actual British readers of this blog think? How true is this statement?

2 comments:

  1. This is typical London condescension. That doesn't even make sense economically.

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  2. Real British Person18 March 2010 at 12:06

    Unfortunately the south is too far up its own arse to see the potential and splendour of the north.

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