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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.
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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.