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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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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Whereas leavers I know in Wales felt it was a protest vote because nothing improved day to day under Tories or Labour, and they felt they were kicking back at Westminster.
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