At Café Bueno in Romford I met 21-year-old car fitter, Joshua Stile, who said he had sympathy with the idea that Havering has more in common with Essex.
“I feel more Essex, I don’t feel included as part of London, because there’s such a massive gap difference, with money, with jobs, with housing, all of it,” he said.
Pensioner June Fitzgerald told BBC London the idea of Havering exiting current London local government arrangements was “ridiculous”.
“The cost of actually changing everything,” she said. “Would Essex want us back?”
Cafe manager, Arif Rana, said Hexit could be bad for business.
“Leaving the GLA means that we no longer have the free transport for the pensioners, and if you look around, most of the customers here are pensioners.
“Every morning they come for a coffee or a breakfast. If you start charging them for public transport they won’t come.”
