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Sounds funny, but maybe closer to the reality of the modern age? So much of GDP now comes from cities & information workers, I'd imagine. Is it just London th

Sounds funny, but maybe closer to the reality of the modern age? So much of GDP now comes from cities & information workers, I'd imagine. Is it just London that wanted to remain? What about the other cities? I haven't followed the race closely, but I'm guessing it was the country bumpkins mostly in favor of leaving?

mhw 10y ago
> Is it just London that wanted to remain? What about the other cities? Despite much of the media describing this as the north voting to leave, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Harrogate and York all voted to remain. Further south there's also Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Oxford. There are cities and urban areas that voted to leave, but generally speaking it does seem to be that the areas with lower population density voted to leave. I'd be interested to see a visualisation which examined this correlation.
- gmac 10y ago
  And Brighton. Lots of university towns.
simonh 10y ago
As always with these things it’s a mixed bag. How close some of these results were matters. Many of the other cities went remain by 50%-60%. London was a full 75% for remain though. Totally overwhelming. There was an interview with people at a market on the BBC yesterday and a stall holder was selling Spanish cherries. He voted brexit, but had a haunted look on his face and said he never believed it would happen. The journalist asked if he regretted it, he said something like "No..... but I wonder whether I made the right decision.". So that would be yes, then. Interactive results map: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028
- DanBC 10y ago
  There's a variety of voter regrets I've heard. There's the people saying "I never thought leave would win, I just didn't want remain to win overwhelmingly" There's the people saying "Even if leave did win it will never happen, so I just voted for the protest option" There's the people who said "wait, we never knew about all these things, we would have voted differently if we had known". https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/746716159559483392 https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/746716159559483392

mhw 10y ago

> Is it just London that wanted to remain? What about the other cities? Despite much of the media describing this as the north voting to leave, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Harrogate and York all voted to remain. Further south there's also Bristol, Cardiff, Cambridge, Oxford. There are cities and urban areas that voted to leave, but generally speaking it does seem to be that the areas with lower population density voted to leave. I'd be interested to see a visualisation which examined this correlation.

gmac 10y ago
And Brighton. Lots of university towns.

simonh 10y ago

As always with these things it’s a mixed bag. How close some of these results were matters. Many of the other cities went remain by 50%-60%. London was a full 75% for remain though. Totally overwhelming. There was an interview with people at a market on the BBC yesterday and a stall holder was selling Spanish cherries. He voted brexit, but had a haunted look on his face and said he never believed it would happen. The journalist asked if he regretted it, he said something like "No..... but I wonder whether I made the right decision.". So that would be yes, then. Interactive results map: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028 http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028

DanBC 10y ago
There's a variety of voter regrets I've heard. There's the people saying "I never thought leave would win, I just didn't want remain to win overwhelmingly" There's the people saying "Even if leave did win it will never happen, so I just voted for the protest option" There's the people who said "wait, we never knew about all these things, we would have voted differently if we had known". https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/746716159559483392 https://twitter.com/BestoftheMail/status/746716159559483392