Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!

London City State - sign the petition

As has been highlighted within another HOL discussion today a petition is putting forward the idea of setting up London as a City State with its own powers & linking the City back into the EU. No doubt a fanciful idea but, at the very least, by many of us signing it, we send a strong signal to the rest of the country that London residents see an EU exit as plain daft, time consuming, chaotic and not providing an inclusive future for our children.

At the time of setting up this post over 60,000 have already signed it.

Everything is up for negotiation we are told over the next few months/years. Tell our London politicians that Londoners want to at least to keep the 'freedom of movement' amongst other things ...

Here's the link;
https://www.change.org/p/sadiq-khan-declare-london-independent-from...

Don't forget to post this out to your email contacts & social media.Yes it's silly but so is voting out of the EU!!

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Permalink Reply by John D on June 25, 2016 at 15:54

Just for information - I thought we now had fixed-term Parliaments which would presumably make votes of no confidence obsolete ?

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Permalink Reply by matt on June 25, 2016 at 16:33

Good point. Not sure what the situation is for say, calling an election for May next year due to the chaos around this referendum. But France & The Netherlands may have called their own referendums by then anyway.

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Permalink Reply by JoeW on June 25, 2016 at 16:48

Parliament can still be dissolved before 5 years if there is a motion passed by 2/3rd of MPs.

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Permalink Reply by John D on June 25, 2016 at 18:14

Thanks both.

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Permalink Reply by matthew cuthbert on June 26, 2016 at 11:18

I coined a name for such a campaign last night, it was Londin!

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Permalink Reply by matt on June 29, 2016 at 8:24

Update from Petition;

28 Jun 2016 — Mayor Sadiq Khan is listening! Speaking this morning at the Times CEO Summit, after noting that our petition has now received 175,000 signatures, he said the following:

"Now, as much as I might like the idea of a London city state, I'm not seriously talking about independence today. I'm not planning to blockade the M25. But on behalf of all Londoners, I am demanding more autonomy for the capital - right now. More autonomy in order to protect London's economy from the uncertainty ahead. More autonomy to protect the businesses from around the world who trade here. And more autonomy to protect our jobs, wealth and prosperity. London needs to be able to determine its own future from now on."

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Permalink Reply by Tullie on June 29, 2016 at 13:50

When I signed (midday Wed 29 June) it looked very much from the map view that Hornsey & Wood Green had the most signatures of any area (23,567), beating even Hampstead/Kilburn and Hackney/Stoke Newington. Proud of you, Harringay!

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Permalink Reply by matt on July 1, 2016 at 18:05

James O Malley, who set up the petition, has had a bit of a crazy week with international media attention etc. His story; http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/07/i-accidentally-started-the-london-...

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Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on July 1, 2016 at 22:37

Can't wait to build the big wall around London. How high should we build it? Would be nice to build it with old fashion castle stone and add turrets and moat.