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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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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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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