D Stock trains on London Underground due to disappear

[Pickman's model]

Move the lot in my view. Parliament, Whitehall and any associated functions. It would help another city in the country and create a counterweight to the malign influence London has on the nation. The decrepitude of Parliament is the perfect opportunity - move that first, then government departments (accounting for commitments to building leases, etc.). It would probably take at least ten years to do but would be worth it in the long run.

Given technological developments, there could even be a multi-centre model, with departments scattered in different cities across the North and Midlands, but with Parliament somewhere in the North (i.e. as far from London as possible in England).

Berwick's time has come

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Berwick's time has come

Berwick is too nice a place to inflict politicians on the residents. Parliament should be in Manchester, as the capital of the North - we could house Parliament in Trafford Park, a bucolic industrial estate.

 

[Dogsauce]

London stops growing and you'll need to pay for your own whippets.

London's taxes prop up the rest of the UK: One pound in every five earned in the capital funds the rest of the country | This is Money

It's where money is extracted, not where it is earned. The top tier of companies may be based at London HQs, with high salaries, but the people doing the actual work to generate the wealth taken out in London are likely to be elsewhere. Build a wall around it and it wouldn't survive.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Build a wall around it and it wouldn't survive.

Now there's an idea...besiege Greater London and see how long it takes before they surrender to our demands.

 

[Beetlebum]

It's where money is extracted, not where it is earned. The top tier of companies may be based at London HQs, with high salaries, but the people doing the actual work to generate the wealth taken out in London are likely to be elsewhere. Build a wall around it and it wouldn't survive.

Correct.

Sainsburys have a HQ in London but without the thousands of checkout assistants and shelf stackers across the UK it would be pointless.

Repeat for every other UK company and you get the point.

 

[davesgcr]

Back to the last "D" stock - running 8 mins late on diagram apparently .......

 

[Ted Striker]

Who wants to govern in the cold and damp though?

You want to 'offshore' parliament?

 

[farmerbarleymow]

You want to 'offshore' parliament?

Rockall would be a suitable location.

 

[EastEnder]

I hate the replacement S stock trains...

The air "conditioning" is predictably naff & they're often too warm for me. In stuffy conditions I rely on being able to stand by the end doors, like a dog sticking its head out of a car window, getting some actual breeze...

With these new fangled awful things there's no possibility of airflow, it's like being hermetically sealed in a Ryan Air flight with a thousand hateful, sweaty strangers. You can run for the blissful escape of the window at the end, but like some recurring nightmare you just keep running & running, there's no end, no window of relief, just endless, seamless, carriage, no escape, no respite, just more people & crappy air con.... Kill me now.

 

[skyscraper101]

Prefer the newer S stock trains. They look like the future. And at least you can walk from end to end so in the event you don't get a seat you can keep walking through the train until you do find one. Plus they're newer so the seats aren't as manky.

 

[steveo87]

We don't want your shitty pacers

We Don't need no thought control

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....oh wait.

 

[neonwilderness]

And we don't want your second hand crap either.

Ten evacuated as Kenilworth train catches fire - BBC News

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ten evacuated as Kenilworth train catches fire - BBC News

Those bloody Londoners are trying to burn us to death with their cast offs.

 

[neonwilderness]

Those bloody Londoners are trying to burn us to death with their cast offs.

"One careful owner"

 

[EastEnder]

Those bloody Londoners are trying to burn us to death with their cast offs.

It's nothing personal, we just do it for the lolz...

 

[T & P]

Prefer the newer S stock trains. They look like the future. And at least you can walk from end to end so in the event you don't get a seat you can keep walking through the train until you do find one. Plus they're newer so the seats aren't as manky.

They are better from the passenger safety point of view as well, and make vulnerable/ apprehensive passengers feel safer.

 

[davesgcr]

Did the honours -1452 off Richmond was serenaded over the PA by a rendering of "our Gracie" - "wish me luck as you wave me goodbye" in acknowledgement of the last one from RD.(at Gunnersbury) - nice touch.

The last mile into Ealing at around 1800 was a time for reflection - millions of journeys done for all sorts of reasons - good and bad. Fun and work.

"Well done though good and faithfull servant(s") - always liked them , warm and clean , reliable and somehow never trashed by graffiti in the bad days.

 

[davesgcr]

Train buffs descend on Tube to catch last ever old style services

OK , I know - the sub-Standard !

 

[davesgcr]

Oh dear - caught in the act at Ealing Broadway. I said to Mrs S that it looks like a Crimewatch shot......"do not approach this person" etc ...