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  1. J

    Stock query

    It's not a nonsensical argument at all! It is a proven fact that London gets more investment than the rest of the country. And I'm not talking solely about transport here. It gets more investment per head than anywhere else in the country, for everything! Something like 24 times more investment...
  2. J

    Stock query

    Thanks, I did indeed miss that. It still doesn't explain why the rest of the country gets the cast off's though, which is the whole point of this thread. I'm as guilty as anyone for leading it astray, but it is still the main point. Why is the rest of the country treated as secondary to London?
  3. J

    Stock query

    All of which rather neatly proves my point that we live in a London-centric country! It seems the rest of the Uk can go hang, as long as good old London gets its investment! None of the above goes anyway to explaining why London and the South seem to get the best of everything before the rest...
  4. J

    Stock query

    Utter rubbish. So if all the commuter services into Manchester were withdrawn, the city would carry on as normal? Or Leeds, or Liverpool or Cardiff? Believe it or not, the rest of the Uk does actually contribute to the well-being of the country! It isn't all about London. Plenty of big...
  5. J

    Stock query

    I'm sorry, I'm merely presenting the facts that investment in London far outweighs the rest of the country and always has done. With reference to your claim that no one uses trains/trams in Sheffield, then that may very well be the case. I've never commuted in Sheffield, so I can't say either...
  6. J

    Stock query

    Yes we do.. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/speri-london-infrastructure-bias-1.499052
  7. J

    Stock query

    Because we live in a London-centric country.
  8. J

    Vegetation Control

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  9. J

    Rule book

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  10. J

    Pensioner against feet on seats

    Twenty two pages in and we're still arguing the same points.

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