The Campaign for Little Britain in the Big Apple

[TheRahin5555]

NO WAY IM NOt going to have british people telling me to get up on the subway bcuz there old its inhuuman

[shadowkitty56]

hmmmm....noticing you are picking one of the most expensive neighborhoods in all of New York City. I'll tell you what: try taking over Hunt's Point, fixing it up nice and pretty, doing something with the waterfront, and then we'll talk. The point of all these ethnic enclaves is to make something out of nothing. Personally, I think it is a fair trade: you get Little Britain, we get Hunt's Point cleaned up, capice?

[politirel]

Why have all these posh accents stereotyping Britain? No one talks like this, it's really embarresing, queen, tea, jolly good show and all that. Bleedin awful! It's not all posh parts of London or the cockney east end you know?

[mysticmeg111]

I have dual citizenship-British and Canadian. I reside in Winnipeg very near a place called Osborne Village. This area has tea rooms/a British pub complete with dinner menus/small art gallery and many little shops selling a vast array of goods from hand made jewellry/pottery etc. summer festivals. New York reatin your Little Britain and down the chute with big business.

[sjoerdsuper]

he got a suite of Hitman XD

[truebot]

Come on grant them the favour. Little Britain lives!!!!!

[chrisbhackett]

DIAMOND GEEZER!!!

[kellamy]

So this is a real campaign and not just a skit? I'd be ready to move there! (Since the English government makes it so hard for Americans to move to England!) I want to be British!!!

[statetheobv]

The emigration difficulty goes both ways. Ridiculous considering we let in the scum from Eastern Europe. I'd much rather have Americans and Canadians emigrating here.

[thornalley]

yay! england rules!

[hobojohn]

whats the latest with the campaign?

[thejonesesofnewyork]

Hello,

Well, 5000 thousand people have signed the petition, every business on Greenwich Avenue between West 12 and 13 have signed individual letters of support and we go before the community board, July 10th.

We do know there is some local resistance to the idea which we have addessed in a letter to the community on the campaign blog at campaignforlittlebritain dot com

[thejonesesofnewyork]

Bottom line, this campaign is about survival. It was conceived to help a small, local business, of seventeen years standing, compete with the big retail brands who are moving into the area and causing massive rent increases, that only they can afford.

[thejonesesofnewyork]

So the community board has a stark choice let us put two words [Little Britain] on one signpost and create a novel reason for people to visit the neighborhood that will only benefit all the existing small businesses in the area, or, watch Greenwich Avenue transform into a carbon copy of Bleecker Street and the homogeneous global brands that are located there.

[Izzymandias]

I'm cool with it.

[hobojohn]

Great Stuff

[snormang]

Great Video! Between the tea and scones, the sausage rolls and cornich pasties, the fish and chips and the Boddington, it all adds up to "Little Britain".

Cheers

[adamblosse]

Fantatsic idea!! I'm signing it right away!

[johnnycorbs]

Cheers!!!

[testeliz]

great video!