and some got it wrong
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and some got it wrong
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Bodd
Oh well, Northerners in industrial and farm regions are jumping up and down in excitement because brexit will make them poorer.
Working class people just voted for less workers protection.
Don't you need a job to qualify for all that stuff?
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EddieM
As per your anti northern rhetoric it is people in the south west of England (you know, the poorest parts of the country) that stand to suffer the most.
I am not anti northern in any sense. it is the justaposition of the Northern labour seats voting Tory against brexit causing economic damage to that region, is the reason for discussing the North.
It also happens to be Northerners on this forum that are the most vociferous in their support for brexit.
I dont want any region to suffer due to brexit, least of all the industrial north that has been left to lag behind ever since Thatcher moved this country to a service economy with all its wealth concentrated in London.
10 years of Conservative austerity have increased the inequality between North and London.
Certainly the South West will suffer, but the figures seem to indicate the industrial North will suffer the most:
Exposure to Brexit in regions on both sides of the Channel
The highest labour income exposure level amounts to almost 17% (in Cumbria). Other regions with high levels of exposure include Lancashire, Leicestershire and East Riding/North Lincolnshire, which are located in the old British industrial heartland. In these regions, the exposure levels are 14-15%. These regions are already poorer and have higher unemployment levels than the UK average (McCann 2016), which means that economic inequality among UK regions is likely to increase
https://voxeu.org/article/exposure-brexit-regions-both-sides-channel
Then stop gloating about how much the north will suffer and how much you will delight in it. Stop it, stop it now.
Make no mistake, northerners aren't as thick as you would like to think, that's why they've voted conservative. What did the Labour govt do for them? what did being a member of the eu do for them? that's why they voted leave.
Unfortunately the liberal elite in London chose to ignore them, bad mistake.
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EddieM
I am not anti northern in any sense. it is the justaposition of the Northern labour seats voting Tory against brexit causing economic damage to that region, is the reason for discussing the North.
It also happens to be Northerners on this forum that are the most vociferous in their support for brexit.
I dont want any region to suffer due to brexit, least of all the industrial north that has been left to lag behind ever since Thatcher moved this country to a service economy with all its wealth concentrated in London.
10 years of Conservative austerity have increased the inequality between North and London.
Certainly the South West will suffer, but the figures seem to indicate the industrial North will suffer the most:
Exposure to Brexit in regions on both sides of the Channel
The highest labour income exposure level amounts to almost 17% (in Cumbria). Other regions with high levels of exposure include Lancashire, Leicestershire and East Riding/North Lincolnshire, which are located in the old British industrial heartland. In these regions, the exposure levels are 14-15%. These regions are already poorer and have higher unemployment levels than the UK average (McCann 2016), which means that economic inequality among UK regions is likely to increase
https://voxeu.org/article/exposure-brexit-regions-both-sides-channel
So assuming your graphic is correct, then it's quite easy to see why people in those areas voted out of the EU, rightly or wrongly they will perceive that sending money to the EU is enriching foreign nations and not themselves. It's probably a false assertion and much more to do with a post industrial decline, with zero succession plan in place.
Im not gloating about how much the north will suffer.
Look at the most vocal brexers on here......they are almost all from Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham etc etc. They are the ones gloating that theyve won.
I never said northeners are thick.
So you are saying Northeners are clever because they voted Conservative?
Please can you explain your reasoning.
Boris Johnson,
Rees Mogg
Gove
Farage
Aaron Banks
Billionaire Tory donors
Billionaire owners of the right wing press.
They are the elite.
Brexit will make them richer
And the poor, poorer.
Yes Im sorry you got it wrong.
London will become richer, Yorkshire will become poorer.
where do you live
poverty is all over the country .
food banks
rough sleepers
homeless
ect ect
do we really care ? we may whinge moan and complain ? but what do we actually personally do ?
cross the street ? turn a blind eye ? ignore ?
appease our selves by dropping a pound in some charity tin /box that is waved under our noses ?
food banks
rough sleepers
homeless
ect ect
do we really care ? we may whinge moan and complain ? but what do we actually personally do ?
cross the street ? turn a blind eye ? ignore ?
appease our selves by dropping a pound in some charity tin /box that is waved under our noses ?
twisting what I meant , you are sinking down to johnds level of childish tricks
so after being in the EU for 40 odd years and according to your figures , out of the whole of the northern EU 9 out of 10 of the poorest regions are in England and NI , then you wonder why people do not think the EU is working for them , sorry but I do not believe you or your figures , we have some poor areas , but 9 out of the bottom 10 really?
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