O/T - general election 2019

[wendun]

Yes we need to move on.

Brexit though has shown that the old stereotype of “tories protecting their money” is not really true anymore

What we have now are “remainers protecting their money” and they aren’t exclusively Tory, far from it.

Either way London rules, the North pays for it

Grist, you always have an interesting slant on things. Here you have rather lost me on two counts. Not at all sure what "remainers protecting their money" means. And does the North really pay? I find economics difficult but in terms of contribution to UK GDP London far outstrips elsewhere, all the regions with above average contributions are in the South (with the exception of Cheshire and NE Scotland - oil, perhaps for this last one?) and every region in the North contributes much less than the average. The South East could probably follow Italy's lead and go for a Northern League type party and push for independence.

[Silly-miller]

Grist, you always have an interesting slant on things. Here you have rather lost me on two counts. Not at all sure what "remainers protecting their money" means. And does the North really pay? I find economics difficult but in terms of contribution to UK GDP London far outstrips elsewhere, all the regions with above average contributions are in the South (with the exception of Cheshire and NE Scotland - oil, perhaps for this last one?) and every region in the North contributes much less than the average. The South East could probably follow Italy's lead and go for a Northern League type party and push for independence.

London far strips everywhere else because it’s the capital and it has had serious investment into growing its revenue for the past thousand years or do you think king John Henry the viii Victoria and all them gave it back? If London had to pay the areas back what it owes the rest of the country it wouldn’t have a penny for a century. As for Scotland they all get free university education as well as other perks that us Yorkshire lads don’t get, yet they still bloody moan

I want a referendum on Scottish independence for us English to vote on whether we kick them out of the Union