Knowing my route he knew I'd be well outside his zone and probably just wanted rid of me.
Having flown out of Leeds for the past 28 years I have to admit to a degree of irritation at the speed with which they like to dump traffic onto someone else just as soon as one leaves the zone, even when they are not particularly busy and even when all that is requested is a basic service for a bimble in the local area, which essentially obliges the controller to do little or nothing extra in terms of workload. For local flights they will normally pass you off to Linton, Leeming, or Warton for LARS, but I have never been offered London info unless routing North West towards say Carlisle.