For a bit of fun.... what would happen if Teesside declared itself an independent country?

[HarryVegas]

North Yorks brewery used to be on North Ormesby Road, don't know what happened to them?

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

North Yorks brewery used to be on North Ormesby Road, don't know what happened to them?

We can get them going going again I'm sure. Just need to find a plane now and we're up and running. What are we going to call the airline ? Tees International Transair Services

 

[Uwefuchs]

I'd sign up for the PRT army!

 

[HarryVegas]

We can get them going going again I'm sure. Just need to find a plane now and we're up and running. What are we going to call the airline ? Tees International Transair Services

Fjortoft Air.

 

[coluka]

Would it be a democracy of sorts, or more of a dictatorial type republic. If the latter who would you like to see as leader?

 

[El Guapo]

I’m leader. Make of that what you will.

 

[A]

Imagine the glamour when once a year the formula 1 rolls into town for the GP at South Tees Motorsport Park.🏎

Wouldn't it be good to have this round of the F1 season at Karting Nation at skippers lane, mix it up a bit and most of them came from a karting background didn't they?

 

[Centralscrutinizer]

Bob Mortimer as PM.
Chris Rea can be ceromonial head of state.
National anthem ?

 

[A]

I’m leader. Make of that what you will.

Ace of spades as the national anthem presumably?

 

[El Guapo]

Ace of spades as the national anthem presumably?

Indubitably

 

[Laughing]

We could have our own time zone, and move clocks back and forth as we pleased. So on Friday morning at 9am we move the clocks forward 8 hours. On sunday evening at 11:00 we move the clocks back 8 hours.

What would our currency be called? The spondoola?

Oh and how much if the North Sea oil do we get. We should have done this when ICI and British Steel were in their pomp. We would be the richest nation on earth.

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

President Osvaldo Giroldo Júnior sounds pretty good

 

[A]

I don't think we should have a president or PM, at least not with those titles. It should be Top Gadge. Or summat like that

Unit of currency could be 'bar'. 100 bar could be 1GBP and make us all millionaires. You would hear in the pubs lads saying "yer fúckîn jokin arn ya!? 400 bar for a pint! " I realise that's a bit of a clunky paradox!

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

What would be on the flag?
A giant parmo ?

 

[NorthumberlandBoro]

National anthem...
We shall overcome

 

[HarryVegas]

We could have our own time zone, and move clocks back and forth as we pleased. So on Friday morning at 9am we move the clocks forward 8 hours. On sunday evening at 11:00 we move the clocks back 8 hours.

What would our currency be called? The spondoola?

Oh and how much if the North Sea oil do we get. We should have done this when ICI and British Steel were in their pomp. We would be the richest nation on earth.

Absolutely. And seeing as our kinsmen are on every oil platform I've ever been on and half of the platforms - handrails, stairtreads etc - came from here, I reckon we have a fair claim.

 

[A]

What would be on the flag?
A giant parmo ?

Transporter surely?

 

[HarryVegas]

What would be on the flag?
A giant parmo ?

Red, with a horizontal white stripe just above halfway and our lion top right.

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

The Boro would have a chance of winning the league.

 

[r00fie1]

TDR [Teesside Democratic Republic] Sound and Vision Broadcasting Service.
South Gare [Desert Island] Discs - a take on your favourite music if you got stranded on South Gare.
The Sunday Smogg - newspaper about all sport Teesside with nothing about Skunks or Blunderland.
Wildlife on TS1: Report and Pictures from the streets of Central Middlesbrough on a Friday Night.