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Again, as always, what you call Britain the reality is that its centers around a small number of cities and primarily the heart of London. And again, a large pe
by weego 6y ago
Again, as always, what you call Britain the reality is that its centers around a small number of cities and primarily the heart of London. And again, a large percentage is privately owned and not wired into the kind of Person of Interest system that people appear to have conjured up in their minds.
- mcv 6y agoDo you mean there's no public accountability for all the CCTV surveillance in the City?
- DanBC 6y agoAnyone running CCTV needs to register with the Information Commissioner and there are some limits to what can be done with the footage or how long it can be kept for.
- TLightful 6y agoTheoretically, good point. In reality, LOL!
- bb123 6y agoCould also be rephrased as "Do you mean that the all the CCTV surveillance in the City is decentralised and only accessible by warrant to each system owner?"
- mcv 6y agoIn the City, I can easily imagine there's still a single entity behind it, just one that's not accountable to the public. No idea whether that's the case, though.
- AdmiralGinge 6y agoIn the minds of many people (especially British politicians!) the UK is actually "The City State of London with Four Inconvenient Countries Attached".
- Hamuko 6y agoDoesn't seem to work power-wise considering London voted against Brexit.
- Tarq0n 6y agoBrexit was caused by London to some degree. Their financial industry creates a huge demand for the pound, which hurts exports for the rest of the country. This has dampened standards of living outside the Capitol for a long time now. This phenomenon is also called dutch disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease
- dx034 6y agoNot by a huge margin. And part of the Brexit campaign (if not most of it) was run out of London.
- sukilot 6y agoPart of everything in UK is run out of London.
- biscotti 6y agoIt appears the City State legislated on the basis that the peoples of these inconvenient countries don't exist. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/38437/rights-of-tribal-and-indigenous-peoples https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/38437/rights-of-t...
- ImaCake 6y agoSimilar views can be found between Sydney and the rest of New South Wales, and also between Auckland and the entirety of New Zealand (the kiwis affectionately refer to Aucklanders as JAFAs - Just Another F$%king Aucklander, because half the country lives there). One would suspect such complaints about the friction between centralism and federalism are widespread across the world.
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