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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This, too. I spent most of the first month after the referendum annoyed that people focused so much on the north and Wales when the biggest weight of leave votes was EXACTLY WHERE YOU'D EXPECT THEM TO BE.
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Aye, but Europeans couldn't vote. Friends from both Boston & South Holland, and they've all left for London, while those remaining blame migrants for lack of jobs, but equally wouldn't want to do farm work which is what EU migrants do
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I'm mystified as to how Lincolnshire/the Fens STILL get left out of this story, despite their dominance in that list.
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It's like the ONE TIME that my home area is super relevant in the news and it's still being mostly ignored. It's bizarre.
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Is this in part because Sunderland and some Welsh areas declared results earlier in the evening than others? Might be entirely wrong on that, it's been a little while and my memory is not good. But regardless, the practice you're talking about is v. frustrating
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Yeah, I think with Sunderland definitely. Wales were a bit later, and I think it's easier to pathologise a country as a whole rather than disparate regions
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