No, because it sounds like a right dive just from the name, right? Well, welcome to the latest scheme to attract people to Northampton.
Northamptonshire – which is where I’m from, for all you uni peoples – is to be rebranded as “North Londonshire” to get Londoners to move there, thanks to a two-year advertising plan funded by the Government (Well, technically, almost half of it’s with your money, so…).
What’s this £1.3 million scheme going to achieve, I hear you hypothetically ask inside my mind. The answer is bring investment and people to Northamptonshire – especially North Northamptonshire – who want to live in London, but want a rural setting. We’re only an hour or so away from there, y’see.
There will be poster campaigns as well as radio advertisements around London promoting North Londonshire as “the best of both worlds”. Oh, how nice and kind of you. Thanks for the compliment.
Most of the Northamptonshire MPs were unaware of the decision until very recently, which is why we’re only hearing about it now.
However, group spokesman Simon Evans says that it’s a good thing it’s caused so much controversy as it get’s people talking outside the county boundaries. Well, no it’s not a good thing, and anyone who doesn’t live in Northamptonshire (bar me, obviously) isn’t going to give a monkeys.
Needless to say, it’s ruffled my feathers. North Londonshire makes us sound like that bit only the ruffians go to. You can imagine people saying “Oh, don’t go to North Londonshire. Certainly not without some sort of automatic gun…”. Please clean the brush before you tarnish us.
It will be a dream come true I I move together with my family up to the north. This will be mainly for my wife whose dream i want to mak it come true.
It will be a dream come true I move together with my family up to the north. This will be mainly for my wife whose dream i want to make it come true.
Mr Lokko – We don’t want you, thanks to people like you moving here we are losing thiousands of acres of farmland that will be needed to fee this country in the future.