To be a bit dismayed at the anti London sentiment I keep seeing here

[Tier4billion]

Not sure if it just happens to the threads I’m on, or if I’m being a bit sensitive - but reading on here at the moment you’d assume that the streets of London are something akin to scenes from 28 days later, and all of us are out throwing parties.

It's the fact than everything in this country revolves around London. Something horrendous could happen in Scotland but the main item on the news will be a minor incident in London.

Oh and behaviour regarding covid rules is equally good and equally shit everywhere.

@Bourbonic just looked up the council tax and as surprised that London is lower in terms of band for band. Then realised that the difference in banding is probably huge. Would be interested to know what this means in real terms.

@TheNinny

Coronavirus was brought recently to my rural area by a londoner traveling up with mild symptoms, then infecting family members. Now there is a fairly large local outbreak. I work in a hospital and the medics are raging about it. Pretty sure this doesnt help Londoners case at all. They are (wrongly) percieved as having a 'we are better than you/rules don't apply to us' attitude by the rest of the uk unfortunately.

Why aren't they raging about the locals who allowed these people to infect them?

I don't get the whole "London-centric" outrage. Of course things are London-centric, it's the capital!
The media does report on the rest of the country but no, the top story on the national news isn't going to be about your local town - unless something huge happens, like a terrorist attack for example. Local papers/radio stations will report on regional issues in more detail.

Same with policy making - devolved governments and local authorities make decisions on region-specific issues...not everything, but many things. For a country of its size, the UK is actually remarkably de-centralised, far more so than other European countries.

And no, I'm not a Londoner

Coronavirus was brought recently to my rural area by a londoner traveling up with mild symptoms, then infecting family members. Now there is a fairly large local outbreak. I work in a hospital and the medics are raging about it. Pretty sure this doesnt help Londoners case at all. They are (wrongly) percieved as having a 'we are better than you/rules don't apply to us' attitude by the rest of the uk unfortunately
Yes they are wrong to judge 9 million Londoners based on one Londoner. I also doubt every single person in your region sticks to the rules perfectly

[quote Tier4billion]@CuriousaboutSamphirei do some work for two property investment firms - one in Manchester, one in Sheffield. The majority of those luxury apartments are sold to buyers overseas IME with the odd U.K. investor included.[/quote]
We aren't quite that level of luxury! But do have decent connections to the M5, when the roads aren't flooded!

Our non local purchasers are from London, Birmingham and even Manchester! I've just done a check in this morning. Large, expensive house, 5 -beds. A 3 child family and a nanny. Mum and dad both work "In the City" - I asked where in Gloucester (just to help fulfil their stereotype of the locals) and they both looked confused

Yes they are wrong to judge 9 million Londoners based on one Londoner. I also doubt every single person in your region sticks to the rules perfectly

Including the local who invited the Londoners into their home and then spread the infection around the region...