Slough may merge with London as the idea is to be discussed at a Slough Borough Council meeting on Monday.
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00:00I guess I've just looked at the map and I've realised how incredibly close it is
00:04and therefore probably it has as much right as Croydon to be considered a
00:08London borough. Why wouldn't it want to be part of London? We're cool.
00:14Yeah, Islam wants to be part of London. We embrace everything, so bring them on in.
00:19Yeah, absolutely. I think, yeah, the stronger London is as well.
00:26I think more like-minded people in an urban environment can be good.
00:31The only thing I can recollect about Slough is I watched David
00:37Brent in The Office. That's all I know about Slough, but I guess, so I've never
00:42been there, but I guess Slough would be quite happy to join London and be part
00:46of that. That would fall under Sadiq Khan's remit then as well, I guess.
00:52I have no opinion on it whatsoever. I'm now tempted to go and visit and
00:58have a look. I have driven through Slough on a number of occasions when I've been lost and, yeah, I have no real opinion on it. I feel a bit sorry for them. I think they get a bad press.
01:14I do remember many years ago we had a client who was based in Slough and I had
01:18to take something out to them and I went to the station and my boss was
01:24already at a meeting in the client's office and so I only needed a single
01:28ticket out there and as I bought it over the counter at Paddington station or
01:33whatever, I said, could I have a single to Slough? And the chap said to me, you're
01:37not coming back. Sorry, that's very mean, anti-Slough. That was a long time ago.
01:44Yeah, absolutely. Very close to Heathrow. Yeah, you know, if it wasn't for Slough, we wouldn't have
01:49anyone at the airport, would we? No. There you go. Yeah, so, yeah, I think, yeah, we love Slough.
01:55Yeah, bring on Slough. As previously mentioned, the prospects of Slough merging with its
02:02neighbour and becoming an integral part of Greater London is to be discussed at
02:09a Borough Council Cabinet meeting on Monday. We understand a senior councillor
02:16in Slough has raised some concerns to the proposals. Councillor Gharacha Mankoo
02:23said he wanted to make sure Slough would be at the centre of any new body. He told
02:29the Slough Observer newspaper, my doubts are in Slough. We are a unique borough
02:36with a diverse population, young population, proximity to Heathrow, a great trading estate,
02:43a very good history of industrialisation, innovation and development. We need to take
02:49advantage of that and ensure we are at the centre of any unitary authority or strategic
02:56authority we go for.