Time to think of ourselves Tatter.
What use is the North to us ?
And there's the added bonus that if we give Scotland our northern wastelands, which by their standards are like the Garden of Eden, they could to thank us by voting yes in their referendum.

But Cumbria, Northumberland and the Yorkshire Moors are some of our best bits of countryside. If we’re going to give any bits away can’t we give East Anglia to the Dutch? Suffolk and Norfolk are rubbish.

I like Yarmouth tho...not enough that it still deserves the title "Great"

More than enough country side in Herefordshire.
Anyway you could still go there, just be in Scotland.

Does the Great in Great Yarmouth refer to it being good or is it like the Great in Great Britain i.e. there to differentiate it from Lesser Yarmouth?

good point

also New Invention in Willenhall......how long ago was the invention? can't they drop the "new" now

Too many things are called Great nowadays. Like world war I. That wasn't a great war was it. There was no underdog winning or anything.

I know for a fact that the "Great" Fire of London wasn't actually all that good.

The Napoleonic War was the first “Great War” wasn’t it? Not sure how good they were but it’s a bit cheeky of WWI to try to nick its moniker.

started in pudding lane

when did they start calling it world war 1? did they have a sequel lined up?

'Great' White Sharks used to just be White Sharks too. There isn't anything great about them. Quite vicious really.

I think it was still happening or had just finished, long before the sequel so they must have known something. Mind the way we treated Germany after WWI it was entirely predictable that it’d all kick off again.

yer the french got all hard at Versaille's with their peace treaty....

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John Maynard Keynes (one of Britain’s greatest ever thinkers) warned of the consequences at the time and was RAA!

Kaiser Wilhelm was present with queen Victoria when she died, not a lot of people know that.

At the outbreak of war he was head of one of the British regiments! Even fewer people know that. And even fewer (me included) can remember which regiment it was

Has there been one of these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZlNNSjsELs

I think Kaiser Wilhelm used to play for Carlisle before moving to the Bundesliga...See what I did there Unc.

Read this about the Kaiser...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2615818/Photo-emerges-Brit-gave-future-German-Kaiser-bloody-nose.html

“which historians say could well have ignited Wilhelm's bitter grudge against the British in later life.”

Talk about the law of unintended consequences! Slap some jumped up German toff and forty years later 16 million people are dead because of you.

I hope no one I’ve ever punched ever gets access to a red button

Typical English hooligan.