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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As you know, lots of young people leave because there are no jobs. High influx of EU migrants doing jobs no one else wants are wrongly seen as 'taking' jobs rather than usual post-industrial bind. It's a much more interesting story!
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Totally, and a lack of central government support, cuts in resources, and a city (Peterborough) with a complicated racial history. I keep meaning to write a local history piece about the area from that perspective... guess I probably should do that.
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