Brexit is endlessly tiresome for myriad reasons but this habit of labelling very split areas as "leave" or "remain" is so reductive: my hometown, Newport, had 56% vote leave, 44% remain. That's a lot of remain voters, still.
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Also interesting politically to see Wales and Sunderland singled out for a lot of heat, when all bar one of the 10 highest "leave areas" and in the East Mids/East of Englandpic.twitter.com/lYoTRpAgUb
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In London, Brexit is more popular than the Mayor
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This. That model that simulated Westminster seats, on the basis of demographics alone, was infuriating. 'Liverpool Walton was LEAVE'. Give it a rest, lads.
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Spoke to a lot of people who believed the vote was based on number of areas won, not core numbers so thought they could "protest vote" in their area as a result based on this trope
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I'm from Birmingham. 50.4% Leave, second biggest, second most diverse city in the UK. Love to hear about abandoning backwards Leave towns.
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I sincerely think the rise over the last few decades of maps in the media showing constituencies in elections coloured by the party/side that won have contributed to political polarisation
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But a sea of shades of purple would not actually tell you which side won anywhere.
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I think it also reduces nuance from debate. Liverpool went majority Remain but most socio-economically comparable places went majority Leave - there's a world of answers out there to find, if we stop generalising.
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Wasn’t Edinburgh the highest remain Place?
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