[conspire] In a city that's not a city

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> Where's that?  It's in Hillingdon Borough, the westernmost of the 33
> entities that comprise Greater London.  Those entities are 31 boroughs
> and two cities, the City of London and the City of Westminster.  What's
> a city, you ask?  Ah, thank you.  A city is a settlement recognised as a
> municipality by bring granted a royal charter.  Only the City of London
> (approx. where the Roman settlement of Londinium was, and now the domain
> of lawyers and bankers) and the City of Westminster (where the Houses of 
> Parliament, Whitehall, No. 6's flat, etc., are) are _cities_.  

No. 6 or No. 10?  Both, I suppose!

But who is #1?

> If you were a UK citizen living near Heathrow, you'd get to vote for
> councillors of the Hillingdon Council, for the London Assembly member
> for Ealing Borough and Hillingdon Borough, for the mayor of Greater
> London, for the MP for the Hayes and Harlington constituency, and for
> the Greater London area's single EU Parliament representative.

I am, but I vote in Ealing Southhall, not Hillingdon.  I guess I'm not
as near Heathrow as you are right now!