... and really hope it's just frustration and not a serious campaign.
I've seen headlines saying 'the overwhelming majority of Londoners voted to remain' - er, no they didn't! 59.9% of Londoners voted to remain. That's well under two thirds. 49.5% of my area voted to remain. That's practically half.
Not a whole lot of difference to suddenly go deciding that London is some special realm of the enlightened that doesn't deserve to have to put up with the country's overall decision is it?!
Maybe it's just because I know a lot of people in London but there seems to be this sense of London being more intelligent than the rest of us and making the right decision while the rest of England sunk them.
There were millions of remain votes outside London and must have been over a million leave votes in London. 36 constituencies voted out by less than 2 percentage points. Only 28 constituencies had more than two thirds of voters wanting to leave. Only one voted to leave by over 75% (and that only just).
Most of England did not vote hugely differently to London. The areas turned a different colour on the map by virtue of a few percentage points in most case. Not the same thing at all.
AIBU to think people in London have no right to think they should be exempt from the results of this vote and aren't that different from the rest of us in their collective political outlook? And AIBU to assume this Independent London thing couldn't ever be taken seriously?
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manicinsomniac · 25/06/2016 16:44
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