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* [[Tori Amos]]' video for "Welcome to England". ''The Guardian'' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/07/tori-amos-welcome-england ran with it in their MSTing.]

 

== Radio ==

** As far as air travel goes this is a self-reinforcing trope: London is ''the world's'' busiest air traffic hub, so that's where it logically follows all airlines should try to focus their business in the UK, to the detriment of other cities. Meanwhile, nobody is willing to build extra runways and terminals in the northern half of the country [[Shaped Like Itself|because nobody flies from there]].

* Also a common mistake by Londoners is to forget they are not in London, as happened on [[Question Time]] in 2011

'''Hugh Grant:''' Basingstoke. }}

** And the irony is that Jon Gaunt is from Coventry. Although this does highlight a subtrope in which the rest of the country endows the status of Londoner on people they dislike; for example Tony and Cherie Blair (Scotland and Manchester/Liverpool respectively) a trend brought to its apotheosis by Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister, who uses the word London to include anyone who is not actually a member of the Scottish Nationalist Party.