Last week Leeds city council member Charles Duckworth called on the people of Yorkshire to get behind the movement to vote for an independent Yorkshire. In a city council discussion, Mr Duckworth stated that across the globe there were more examples of “fragmentation of societies from large nations into smaller, self-sufficient States”.  Mr Duckworth mentioned the recent vote in Catalan to separate itself from mainland Spain and provided an argument for why he felt a similar movement would greatly benefit Yorkshire.  The idea has been encouraged by many locals and in response to the positive feedback, a provisional manifesto has been drawn up by Mr Duckworth and his advisory team.

 

The Yorkshire Manifesto: God’s Own County

 

• Yorkshire shall establish its own monarchy with Yorkshire born Dame Judy Dench as the reigning queen
• All plates and bowls shall be banned and replaced with large Yorkshire puddings to save on washing up
• Marks & Spencer’s is to be nationalised
• The new national anthem for an independent Yorkshire shall be the lyrics of Kaiser Chiefs “I predict a riot” to the tune of Jerusalem

 

Cat Alan