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My preference would be to return to the old Cheshire boundaries.

If I wanted to live the Liverpool way I would move there.

I like it better on this side of the water thank you. Should I ever get fed up with Wirral I rather think my move would involve several hundreds of miles.

Wirral would be the minnow to Liverpool's hungry fish in a joint operation.

I haven't shopped in Liverpool for years preferring Chester or Manchester. I don't go there for recreation.

I don't know if others find this to be so but it has seemed to me that many people move from Liverpool to Wirral but not visa versa.

However, our opinions do not appear to have any effect any more. Government and Local Government just do as they please.

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There's a lot of positive things to be said about Liverpool, its people, history and attractions. The same can be said of the Wirral and some of the truly beautiful open spaces we have.

Both also have large pockets of poverty and issues which need addressing, preferably locally and as soon as possible.

Liverpool is huge compared to Wirral. If we joined forces and the going gets tougher than it is now there's a danger that Wirral will be sidelined and become a big district of poverty stricken wilderness.

Before anybody thinks I'm being dramatic, can I just remind you of our last really bad winter 2009, when a lot of the main roads in Wallasey weren't gritted (I can only speak for Wallasey). Mill Lane where the Fire Station is and which the Ambulances use to get to APH wasn't gritted and neither were the car parks at APH???

BUT even the pavements were gritted in Liverpool City Centre, with grit that came from Wirral.

I rest my case your honour seeyu

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I think you could be right Zubee. Liverpool are very good at spending money to improve the city centre , for the beneit of tourists and what the eye can see but travel a mile or two in the direction of Toxteth and Smithdown Road. You would see there,that little has been done to improve those areas. They still look neglected and run down. I can't see that Birkenhead and surrounding areas would benefit in any way other than maybe for the tourist. Lots of eating places and river views but forgetting the inhabitants. Plus, the businesses on this side of the river would probably, by that point, be owned by people from Liverpool, certainly not the Wirral inhabitants. It is my opinion would be another quick fix to get us out of the sh1t!
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I am all for a 'Republic Of Wallasey'.

Burn the bridges !! grin

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Originally Posted by PaulWirral
I am all for a 'Republic Of Wallasey'.

Burn the bridges !! grin


Blow up the tunnels. Cannons to right of us, cannons to left of us. Tally ho!


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I am all for a 'Republic Of Wallasey'.

Burn the bridges !! grin


Blow up the tunnels. Cannons to right of us, cannons to left of us. Tally ho!


Once more into Seacombe my friends ! grin

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Sounds good granny - but an awfully long way to drive if you are going to Scotland. Via Runcorn?
I want a DUKW!!!

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You need to pay to cross the Tyne. Although residents get a 10% discount (don't know if they need to buy a permit first though). The cars are £1.60 since this month to cross. Think they are holding this price until 2014.

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Looks as if we will all be heading for the hills, Ponytail, if this should happen!! I'll go south to Wales, it's still free to walk the Dee. smile


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In which other major city do you have to pay to cross the river. certainly not in London


New York. Probably many others too.


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That Liverpool place taking over the Wirral? - how dreadful !

I say my fine fellow, where do you live ?

Ermmm.. the Caldy/Norris Green area actually. shocked

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Originally Posted by granny
Looks as if we will all be heading for the hills, Ponytail, if this should happen!! I'll go south to Wales, it's still free to walk the Dee. smile


Granny, can you walk on the Mersey too? I know we all could in days gone by!!

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You just know that we will be subsidising Liverpool Council, everything will be increased and we'll be given crumbs. They will promise the opposite of course, they always do. I'm ok because I'm in my dotage. Even now I have to go to Aintree for hospital appointments and that is a bit of a drag believe me. There will be no good coming of this for Birkenhead.
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The more I think about this the better it sounds ......... sacrifice local identity for the sake of the wider "brand" that attracts inward investment and boosts the local economy!

As the premier northwest city for driving investment is clearly Manchester, maybe the Liverpool brand should die too, and the whole of the northwest could be re-designated as "Manchester City Region"?

I am sure nobody from Liverpool would be petty enough to wish to cling onto an unnecessary identity for reasons of tradition only, and would willingly be prepared to be re-branded under the banner of their larger, more successful neighbour for reasons of economic pragmatism......... or would they?

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Liverpool has already been 'branded'. The Wirral is in the process with becoming a 'golfing destination'. It depends upon where your pragmatism lies - would all of Merseyside see just one conception or will the powers in Liverpool lead to a rationalistic speculation that we should unite and give power to the Liverpool council?

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