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Look if anyone really wants this city thingy it's selby and bb that have the ear of government surely, having supported them faithfully without question, never shying away from rushing to their defence, never caring about their own reputation or sanity, I'm surprised that they didn't get a call in the reshuffle, maybe it they are on the honours list.
You're becoming a grumpy old sod in your dotage Steve, or were you always one?
Quote from: SydneyRover on September 19, 2021, 10:41:38 pmYou're becoming a grumpy old sod in your dotage Steve, or were you always one?Not at all, Sydney. As a young man in the 60s, we had the Beatles, Muhammed Ali, the England World Cup winners, full employment, and everything was cheap.Then the next few generations came, f*cked everything up, and then buggered off to Australia.
Quote from: scawsby steve on September 20, 2021, 07:48:13 pmQuote from: SydneyRover on September 19, 2021, 10:41:38 pmYou're becoming a grumpy old sod in your dotage Steve, or were you always one?Not at all, Sydney. As a young man in the 60s, we had the Beatles, Muhammed Ali, the England World Cup winners, full employment, and everything was cheap.Then the next few generations came, f*cked everything up, and then buggered off to Australia.Didn't know 50 year olds were considered young in the 60s Steve?
It now seems that Bangor, Northern Ireland (where I am now living) has aspirations to become a city as well. As Northern Ireland’s 5th largest place and a bit of a culture and food centre it has a case IMHO.And it has 4 times the population of Bangor, Wales which is a city.
Don’t know the details, but, in Northern Ireland at least, I think it comes with greater funding, or rights to funding, as well as possible increase in tourism. Bangor has a large tourist income, mainly from day trippers.
Quote from: since-1969 on September 13, 2021, 03:06:06 pmDon’t you have to have cathedral?i used to fall for that one basically it seems it's down to the Queen (someone should remind her that her filly Dunfermline won the St. Leger) me thinks we are half way their already
Don’t you have to have cathedral?
What are the actual benefits of being a city?
Quote from: River Don on November 18, 2021, 07:56:42 pmWhat are the actual benefits of being a city?That's worth £10 million a year in my reckoning Being able to lord it over Barnsley and Rotherham, primarily.
Donnygate didn't help the town's prospects of city status. Those good old, trustworthy, honest, salt of the earth labour councillors should have been transported to Australia for what they did.
It's now a badge of honour if you can prove you are a descendent of a convict.
Being a cynic I'd suggest one of the main reasons Doncaster is not a city in spite of it's size and relative importance is due to the fact that historically the parliamentary constituencies in the borough have been safe seats.Perhaps the results from the last General Election in each of town's seats may boost our chances of gaining much deserved city status.