Cameron ‘in off-camera jibe at Yorkshire’

[T_i_B]

Cameron might be surprised at the way we can pull together. Even if sometimes we all pull together just to bash L**ds!

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/politics/cameron-in-off-camera-jibe-at-yorkshire-1-7456438

DAVID Cameron was recorded making an off-hand comment about the people of Yorkshire during a major speech in Leeds today, according to the BBC.

Apparently referring to rival bids from different areas of the county for more devolved control of local affairs, the Prime Minister was recorded off-camera saying, “We thought people in Yorkshire hated everyone else - we didn’t realise they hated each other.”

[LeftishBrit]

1. As I've said before...

many Tories suffer from an anti-Northern-ism, quite as strong as many better-known forms of bigotry.

[T_i_B]

2. I don't think this is a case of that.

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If anything, the surprise is that David Cameron has got to his age without realising that there are big local rivalries round here.

There was a certain element of truth to his comments.

[LeftishBrit]

3. True (as everywhere else!); I admit that by now I tend to get antagonistic the moment Davy opens his

mouth