I love the people of West Yorkshire invading and settling in the shire and on the coast of East Yorkshire.........Not!!!

Aye, that Constantine, what a duffer ... short-termist thinking, that's what let him down..
Founded Constantinople, which remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for a mere thousand years.
If only he'd thought ahead.

Aaaaahhhhh Constantinople, Always reminds me of the Black & White Minstrel Show on the wireless (yes children, they really did black up to appear on radio)

"Constantinople - C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E"

Settling? No, they're all comforts. Comfort day

Sadly not.
They used to 'comfort day'.
Now they 'comfort and stay'.

The jocks are doing it as well.

0 - 6 months, a resident of Tayside.
6 months - 46 years and 7 months an East Yorkshire resident.

Where are these East Yorkshire and West Yorkshire of which you speak?
As far as I'm concerned they are vague, unnecessary and irrelevant delineations.

Now the East, West (and North) Ridings ... those I understand.

You are correct. My school badge on my blazer, indeed stated,
'The East Riding of Yorkshire'.

I'm not from a Riding, me. City of York in the County of York in the North Riding of the County of Yorkshire. (or summat)

A pint of Tennants and you qualify mate...

Is it still full of clout?

I'm proud to qualify mate.

Hmmm, I think you may have mentioned this in the past and I've always been too polite to point out that only the part of York that lies within the City walls is included in the not-in-a-Riding denomination.
Unless you are, indeed, a native of that enclave?

Sounds a familiar trope. No, the maternity unit was outwith the city walls

I've been to York Minster a few times, it's fantastic, but it's no Liverpool.

Thats very true, and for that, we can be very thankful.

Indeed you cannot walk around Bridlington or Scarborough with out seeing smelly Wesies everywhere.

Well that's obvious York minister still has its lead on its roof for a start.

Further south at the Hornsea's and Withernsea's they have moved in lock, stock and barrel.
THey aren't even economically advantageous.
A tighter more reticent bunch would be difficult to find.

When I lived on the East Coast we used to love the annual event of the Wessies floating out to sea on lilo's and having to be rescued by a Sea King from Leconfield.

You can float out to sea from the Withernsea/Hornsea coast just by lying on a lilo on a cliff top for more than three hours.

The excuse "But officer, I fell asleep 50 yards from the cliff top and when I woke up I was in the sea" just won't work.

I was expecting a bigger bite than that McF.

...or, "I was lying asleep in my hotel room when I was awoken by these kind men from the Flamborough Lifeboat informing me that it was illegal to sail a hotel bed in the middle of a shipping lane without lights or radio"...

"Flamborough? I went to sleep in bloody Driffield"