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This 'London running the country' topic needs some better accuracy.
It isn't 'London', it is a tight group of feckless politicians, Whitehall mandarins, lobbyists and the money(wo)men who fund them.
Out here in outer north west London, we've lost a municipal golf course, and a swathe of semi-natural ancient woodland to HS2, to enable the Heathrow Spur that was cancelled when HS2 appointed a new CEO. Without a link to Heathrow, to replace internal flights, why connect the North with a new rail line that goes 20 miles west?
The outer suburbs even with (supine) Tory MPs have little say in how the country is run.
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Saying that I know plenty of people who are just as pissed off the other way with London running the whole country seemingly in a self interested way that ignores a lot of the rest of the place. I don't agree with them either but there's probably a common problem and a more devolved local way of running most things with a nice friendly feeling of all being in the same place but that not being at the expense of others....man.