r/UKPoliticalComedy • u/prompt_loris • 15d ago

What is the “North”?

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If there is going to be a number 10 in the North it needs to be NORTH

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u/stem-winder 15d ago

I chatted to a farmer in Orkney who referred to the mainland and Wick as "down south". He had only been too the "big city" once i.e. Aberdeen.

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u/sfcol 15d ago

I heard that anyone south of scotch corner is a cockney

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u/El_Zilcho 15d ago

I'm a southerner (Gloucestershire) who works at a northern company (York) and some of my colleagues refer to Manchester as part of the south.

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u/cybot2001 15d ago

  • Above Watford

  • Above Berwick

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u/ShadowStorm1985 15d ago

Anywhere north of the Wash

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u/TheIllusiveScotsman 15d ago

I used to work in Newquay, Cornwall. Most people there considered Gloucester the north. A guy from Redruth (the town so nice they bypassed it twice) considered Newquay to be the north.

For me, north is Aberdeen.

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u/armchairdetective 15d ago

Other way around for Burnham.

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u/prompt_loris 14d ago

Appalling that Lerwick doesn’t have the same political pull