The constant dismissal of London as middle class/young ignores so many factors, because class is treated entirely reductively in political media and polling. Firstly, London has some of the highest poverty and inequality, (YES, including Islington)
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And when people I know from Lincolshire, South Wales & Yorkshire speak to family, they attribute them leaving to people from Eastern Europe “stealing their kids’ jobs” even though eg my friends point out they work for a charity, they weren’t planning to be a seasonal tulip picker
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And that narrative is easier to both sell and absorb than one about deindustrialisation and the abandonment of regional economies for decades by both parties.
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