[Brighton] "City" status getting a bad name

[goldstone]

This "City" status thing is getting a bad name. Southend given it a few weeks back, now Colchester, Doncaster and Wrexham among others. I think we should give ours back. Becoming completely meaningless now .... or maybe it always was?

 

[A1X]

Not sure I'd be picking on the Southend one TBH

 

[Acker79]

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[jakarta]

Wrexham.

 

[Guinness Boy]

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Perhaps, rather than give our status back, [MENTION=144]goldstone[/MENTION] could move to Throbbing-under-Gammon. It sounds like the sort of place he'd be inordinately happy in.

 

[BNthree]

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[beardy gull]

At least Crawley were rejected. Wouldn’t have been having that.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

This "City" status thing is getting a bad name. Southend given it a few weeks back, now Colchester, Doncaster and Wrexham among others. I think we should give ours back. Becoming completely meaningless now .... or maybe it always was?

It’s all comparative. Perhaps I should be offended that the town of Brighton was given city status ? It’s not Liverpool is it

 

[METALMICKY]

Colchester? Charming place for a weekend away. The combination of the squaddies versus the travelling community makes for something akin to the wild west in the town centre!

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Wrexham.

Wrexham is many things and that includes, most definitely, being a town

 

[Wozza]

What, no Croydon city?

Not to be confused with Corydon (Iowa), which is.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Port Stanley I ask you
Its as big as Newhaven, but with less pizzazz

 

[lawros left foot]

Milton Keynes?


Was Wimbledon awarded City status and MK just stole it off them?

 

[el punal]

Dulwich Hamlet have a long way to go then.

 

[jakarta]

Colchester? Charming place for a weekend away. The combination of the squaddies versus the travelling community makes for something akin to the wild west in the town centre!

Went out with a girl from St Osyth back in the 1980's and we had a charming drink in a Colchester pub with not a stick of furniture in it.

Apparently the Paras had visited for a free and frank discussion with the locals the previous day...

 

[crodonilson]

I think it is a fantastic gesture by Her Majesty the Queen, and it will bring many benefits and opportunities for the residents of these new cities.

 

[jakarta]

Wrexham is many things and that includes, most definitely, being a town

Very good friend and ex-work colleague of mine is married to a Fireman who had to cover Wrexham.

Apparently Summertime fun involves setting fire to settees etc., dragging them out into the street and then luzzing bricks at the Fire Crews.

Presumably this is the Brixton/Toxteth route to City Status?

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

What does City status actually get you?

 

[jakarta]

What does City status actually get you?

Apparently the right to chuck objects at Fire Crews...

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Very good friend and ex-work colleague of mine is married to a Fireman who had to cover Wrexham.

Apparently Summertime fun involves setting fire to settees etc., dragging them out into the street and then luzzing bricks at the Fire Crews.

Presumably this is the Brixton/Toxteth route to City Status?

Enjoyed going to the Racecourse Ground and then heading out quickly towards more picturesque North Wales. Snowdonia etc