Sky News on the North South divide

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[Lord Percy]

Yes and you still don't seem to understand that population density bares no relevance on the spread of MPs across the country.

Do you think parliament has a great big stadium where 60 million people are supposed to go and watch every week? If so, yes it would be best to have it in London. But no, that's not how it works. Have a look again at that map I just showed you. Take all the time you need. Hint: Large bold font won't help.

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[Lord Percy]

Don't be so daft. You think every MP is assigned a hectic government minister role that requires them to be in London every other week? Seriously?

Their job is to represent their constituents, in the constituency they were voted.

And MI5??

Shifting parliament elsewhere would not mean that the entire secret or civil service would have to go too.

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[Lord Percy]

Once again proving your ten-year-old level of comprehension skills.

MPs need to be in parliament regularly. Parliament does not need to be in London.

MPs do not need to be rubbing shoulders with MI5, MI6 and the civil service. Those can all stay in London for all I care.

This is not hard to understand.

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[Easy-X]

Easy-peasy...

If you centralise things: more efficient with less travel but single point of failure.

If you distribute things: less efficient with more travel but difficult to destroy the system.

Like it or not dropping a nuke on London pretty much cripples the whole of the UK but spreading everything out just slows things down. TBH with a good communications system this should be less of a problem.

The Roman Empire lasted over a thousand years just with men on horseback relaying messages. Think of what they could have done with broadband! Or even the "Clacks" from the Discworld novels
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[Lord Percy]

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[Lord Percy]

London you div, and the entire topic of conversation is the fact that it could and should be moved away from there.

You are fantastically unintelligent.

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[Ribenapigeon]

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[Easy-X]

We're practically living in the equivalent of an Ancient Greek city state. One main city (London) with a few surrounding hovels in the countryside (e.g Liverpool.)
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[Ribenapigeon]

My Großmeisterplan is for Aberdeen and Shire to cecede from Scotland and establish an independent City State. Screw Edinburgh and Glasgow.

[Im-a-Ridah]

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[Ribenapigeon]

Given the UK government could be moved to anywhere in the UK if we teally wanted to put the cat amongst the pigeons how about moving it to................. Glasgow!

[Im-a-Ridah]

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