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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What's driving me crazy are all the Blairite vultures coming out of the woodwork scapegoating lefties Blair was 1 the figure heads of the remain campaign, it was rejected They're also the one's who forced a 2nd Ref & pushed leaver into the arms of the Tories I wanted soft Brexit
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"Hysteria about non-existent immigrants about to overrun the country represents the substitution of an illusory danger (immigration) for the real danger (depopulation and demographic collapse) that cannot speak its name." https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/24/western-liberalism-failed-post-communist-eastern-europe …
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It's talking about Eastern Europe so not the same, but the pairing of worry about immigration and emigration rang a bell
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Really agree with this, there's a lot of anger towards london (quite rightly) and i think brexit and this is quite a lot to do with that but its not just a class thing its a country being quite unbalanced and therefore dysfunctional thing
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Oh my, you've just told the story of me & all my school friends. Feel quite emotional reading that & realising we're part of a bigger pattern
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There's no economic demand here in the north! There hasn't been for years. The economy here is based on personal debt driven consumption and the public sector. Service jobs or public sector jobs. Everything else is peripheral!
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It's this in the Midlands too. Ultimately a majority of roads lead to London cus that's where jobs that pay more than 15-20k are.
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