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In the minds of many people (especially British politicians!) the UK is actually "The City State of London with Four Inconvenient Countries Attached".
by AdmiralGinge 6y ago
In 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.
- anon98356 6y agoI always chose to believe it was Just Another Friendly Aucklander. I knew I was lying to myself, but it makes you feel slightly better than acknowledging 2/3 of your fellow citizens don't like you.
- ImaCake 6y agoI doubt it is personal. I live outside of my state's major city (Sydney) and feel no personal dislike to anyone in Sydney. It is just difficult to understand why someone would want to live there. And I think people outside major urban centres often feel ignored by politicians and this leads to resentment.
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