"Ben Nunn" wrote in message
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Unless I'm very much mistaken, it was Matthew Rees
), in message
who said:
Nick wrote:
mega snip
I am not anti-GLA, I just don't want the London branding and to be
artificially separated from the Dartford area.
Nick
We have the same issue in Kingston upon Thames which we definately see
as part of Surrey even though we are a London Borough. We get round
that banding issue by being the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
- no London there!
The situation wasn't helped by Surrey County Council housing their primary
offices there, when it wasn't even under their jurisdiction either.
Yeah, that was kind of odd.
For me, people who live in outlying areas who's big salary and house are
dependent upon a rapid commute into the City of London, but don't want to
live in Greater London because it's somehow vulgar/common are hypocrites
of
the worst kind.
I know what you mean, though I don't want the GL label not because it's
vulgar/common, but because we already have a perfectly good label with a lot
of history and interest behind it.
When all the homes in these suburbs were built of course, they were all
marketed along the lines of "fed up with London? Move out to Kent!" Some
hopes.
Nick