We're kicking off a debate on Twitter with @EssexRules, so please be sure to follow and we will be inviting the stolen "Greater London" Essex Towns all the way down to the Thames to come and reform the 1139 map, and get Romford, Ilford, Dagenham etc back into
the fold. But the question of the whole of E Anglia is pertinent - all the Home Counties have been abandoned by Westminster's passion for "levelling up" and "Northern powerhouses".

Who will not want to leave Sadiq Khan's increasingly dystopian "stab city" nightmare? We wonder if other "home" counties that have been betrayed since Blair's 1997 junta

Let's list some of the assets...

Airports (Stansted/Southend)
Key roads M11, M25, A12, A14
Seaports Thames/Harwich/Maldon/Burnham/
Defence (Colchester Garrison, recommission Debden)
Agriculture (Plenty of all types)
Water (Abberton, Hanningfield )
Power (Revamp Bradwell! Offshore wind.)
Vehicle supply (Revamp Dagenham)
Schools and Universities galore
Industry (Basildon, Harlow, Colchester. )
Hospitals, health service, hmmm... need work.

We need to prepare a constitution, and get on with it while the rest of the country is melting down into an ever worse shambles