Sky News on the North South divide

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[kawakid]

Ahh, it's when you said direct train.

Like at Town, Grand Central is always advertising, but they don't go from Huddersfield.

Hence Mirfield/Brighouse guess.
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Where I live, Stratford is 28 minutes now and St Pancras 38 on the high speed link.
Unfortunately, this has led the government to bribe and push the local council to build around 20,000 new homes a year in what was a small market town.

Most of what they’re throwing up at a scary rate now, are 1 bedroom flats and social housing to meet failed immigration targets.
Crime is going through the roof and the town is barely recognisable as a Kentish Town in England, if you walk around it during normal working hours.
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[Easy-X]

I almost feel guilty chuckling at your plight from my cosy little pad in Surrey
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[Ribenapigeon]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

I wouldn't worry. For you it must be like a combination of Shangri La and El Dorado. It's mystical place full of horse stables and rowing clubs.

All the more peaceful because the local council have taken out an injunction on the whole of the "traveller community" so none of them are allowed to stop in the area. Next on the list is the clearing the slum boats from the Thames.

It's the sort of place Hitler would have happily retired to if he'd managed to conquer Europe.
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[Easy-X]

Stacks of immigrants in Surrey! Due to the lack of black faces it's an attractive area for East Europeans.
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[bhinso]

Are Eastern Europeans racist?
I thought it was just Brits.

[Polarbear]

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Poland is one of the only EU states which has had zero Muslim terror incidents. This is mainly because hey don't tend to welcome Muslim immigrants with open arms.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

Much of the MoD was moved outside of London under previous governments because to address the problem of too many government jobs being in London. It's been reasonably successful in the case of the MoD but there are still way too many in London. It's also about the kind of jobs too. They will move a call centre to Hull, but not the £50k-£100k central London jobs which means the influence remains in London. The fundamental issue is that the civil service doesn't want to move, and they make the decisions in reality, so all we get are token measures.

Also Oxford and Cambridge should count as "London" for similar reasons.

[Lord Percy]

Unemployment rates seem to have a slight weighting towards northern areas.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/297167/unemployment-rate-in-great-britain-by-region/

Kind of makes sense. It's the same in all countries. Get nearer major cities, and you get more money, jobs etc. UK has only one major city - London.

It would be good to move parliament up north though. Some countries already do it this way. Asutralia -> Canberra. Brazil -> Brasilia. The reason for this, I believe, is specifically to make sure the capital does not become a combined political/economic bubble.

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[Ribenapigeon]

[Lord Percy]

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[Polarbear]

Shell talked about moving their head office out of London but in the end it was pure prestige that kept them there.

Important customers expect to roll up to an impressive building in the heart of London, not a prefab in Milton Keynes.
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[Lord Percy]

[Lord Percy]

[Lord Percy]

On a related note, Channel 4 are shifting their offices from London to Leeds. About 90% of the London workforce decided to take redundancy instead of moving with the job. Not sure if that says something about Leeds, or London, or C4, or the people working for C4. It's being used as a beating stick in this whole north-south narrative anyway.

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[Easy-X]

You might find this handy:

https://parallel.co.uk/3D/population-density/#8/51.409/-0.151
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[Lord Percy]

mpd why are you still talking about population density?

Constituencies are evenly spread across the country, with barely any extra weight toward London when compared with the other main British cities.

Look at this map and try telling me Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Cardiff and Liverpool do not hold any weight against London when it comes to number of MPs.

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/images.linnlive.com/3d083efe3876b4cfe194de4bf71a19d9/06173181-22f3-4a92-aaf6-b8e623769062.jpg