Scot Nats, you'll love this

Oh! I have to spell it out! how about...im envious of....you all that live in the beautiful United Kingdom...all inclusive!

.......but which one Envious!

Yes....of your beautiful Country!

Envious as in that's your name, Envious

Yes,maybe envious is too strong a word.

Tennessee is beautiful, especially the Great Smoky Mountains. I loved Nashville and Memphis, too. What a great place to live, Envious.

We'll have you Envious. Love the south.

I was born and lived only a whole month in Mississippi ( thank goodness). Also spelled "M-I crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I- humpback-humpback-I !

I love dolly Parton!

It does...and the beautiful Smokey Mountains right by it!

Could we re arrange things so that my dream of winning the Eurovision Song Contest again will be realised. Please....

If it includes Dollywood!

Tennessee....

Where are you Envious?

don't you want my state? It's pretty!has all 4 seasons!

And Aquitaine with England. How civilised would that be? Bourdeaux at half the price.

Maryland, Virginia, Georgia to England? And Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. Share Maine and Vermont with France.

Or even better, to the indigenous First Nation Americans.

New York/Amsterdam to the Netherlands?

And California, Florida, etc to Spain.

absent

I think I'm going to start a campaign to have Alaska returned to Russia and Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, the Dakotas and Oklahoma, etc. returned to France.

I wouldn't want my prospective MP candidate, of whatever political persuasion, to visit my house. I don't call that hard work; I call it being a pain in the neck.

I agree, lily, about the need for politicians to have 'proper' jobs for a while before going into politics full time, and they should live in their constituencies too. Tricky if their partner works in London though.

I agree with MiceElf up to a point but I think that many of us out in the sticks feel our legislators are too remote and that decisions are made without any reference to local conditions or opinions. Increasingly, decisions made by local government can be overridden by central government. (Generalisation/exaggeration alert) It's made worse because instead of having the kind of career path MPs used to have, they all seem to be urban hacks and apparatchiks who are parachuted in to any seat anywhere in the country. They don't live in their constituency, unless it's within an hour of London. Their spouses have jobs in the capital and their children go to schools there. The semi-independence of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland makes all this more apparent. And the expenses scandal, with misleading news stories about second homes, made it worse. A new, young MP said on television the other day that she had worked very hard for her adoption as a candidate, visiting every house in the constituency. Hundreds of volunteers, not seeking a seat, could say the same. Not quite like five years on the local council or even an ordinary job in a given place.