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Well as an East London resident who has been known to fall asleep on several late night transport services I'm a little happy to know I won't end up too far out of London. Though it may be a warm welcome to wake up in the magesty of Ruislip at dawn rather than a quick and easy trip to my bed.
ric_a5-
too far out of London.
I still had to pay the Greater London Council Tax levy to subsidise your Olympics.
When the County of Middlesex was subsumed into the GLC,
London spread from the Colne in the west, (the next river valley over,
from the Glory of Ruislip situated in the Pinn Valley) to the Lea in the east.However, had the original plans for the Central Line been adopted,
it would have proceeded through West Ruislip,
to a halt at Harvil Road, (for Harefield),
then onto Denham Green , Denham Golf Course,
(now operated by the Chiltern Line commuter services),
and presumably other Buckinghamshire villages on the way to High Wycombe.
These undeniably would have been 'out of London'. -
too far out of London
Given the 2019 GE results, it could be concluded that the constituencies of Ruislip, Northwood & Pinner, and Uxbridge and South Ruislip are attitudinally 'out of London',
but they share this with a couple of other London fringe constituencies.
The history of (administrative) London is successive attempts by Tory politicians to add leafy home-owning suburbs to central (Labour-voting) London.
This meant that Middlesex was totally subsumed into the GLC, and now the GLA.
mespilus
Apologies for missing this when you posted it.
Of course, these days, Ruislip continues to be discriminated against,
as the 'All Night' Central Line service terminates at Ealing Broadway.