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Originally Posted by GGG
Greater London is the closest politically to Scotland.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/o...ut-not-london/
In fact greater london is more similar politically to Scotland than it is to the rest of England and Wales. They only elected 28/74 conservative MP's. And the more urban you get in greater london the more the Labour Party takes control.
So you might say that London is being ruled by the rest of England. And if so I think that London needs to separate from the rest of England.
And if you notice that the current British Government is a Colilition between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Scotland also elected 11 liberal democrats of roughly 60 seats who sit in government. So they really sit in a similar situation to greater london. |
As someone far removed from the issue, it really about politics and small differences in ideology, or is it truly about national identity?
If it is about ideology, then the whole issue is silly to me. You could even see it on this board every time Canada had a federal election, there were certain posters saying that if the Liberals won, that Alberta should separate. In a liberal democracy, the differences in ideology between conservatives, liberals and socialists is not as big as people make it out to be.
If it is about national identity, then these trivial differences in politics are nothing more than a distraction.