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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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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 contry is run.Oh yeah, I completely agree, it's not my view but one I hear often enough.
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This 'London running the country' topic needs some better accuracy.
It isn't 'London'
Someone didn't get the letter with their "Metropolitan Liberal Elite" membership card explaining which part of the UK they get to run. I, for example, have a few acres of Lancashire that I rule with an iron fist, sending the local children into a workhouse where they're relentlessly forced to froth oatmilk for my organic decaf cappuccinos.
snottyotter
ffm
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.