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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Even now, though I live in the most "remain" area bar Gibraltar, 1 in 3 of my neighbours voted to leave. Hillingdon had same % of leave voters as Newport, but London gets branded a liberal idyll, and Wales et al a bunch of closed-minded knuckle-draggers
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Replying to @DawnHFoster
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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