Oi !!!!!
There's nowt wrong with Northerners, at least those from the West of the Pennines, and I'd even take Yorkies before the fake-tanned Essex bilge, or anybody else emulating the estuarine twang. We also have the best scenery and beer, and 2/3rds of the English Premier League titles have been won by teams playing north of the Mersey-Humber axis.
I think my younger son has it right - he says anything south of the Mersey is in France, and everybody who lives there speaks in Cockney rhyming slang..