The Londoners I have met or worked with have been generally fine and friendly and I'm sure there are also many areas of London that have a sense of community but I certainly find that the culture in central London is different to other city centres I've been to. Not only is everyone always seemingly in a rush with no time for anyone else, but there seems to be this almost fear of speaking to strangers? Guess, in most cities you might encounter the odd "nutter on the bus" you'd rather avoid but they do appear to take this attitude to the extreme!

It's not just this difference in culture between the North/South divide that Tate is taking the p iss out of though. It's about the general divide in wealth. When you have more money you can become more insulated from "real" life where you only mix socially with those on your financial level and contact with others is limited to "trades people" as Mrs Bucket might say😀

Of course there are poorer people in the "home counties" and Tate uses the tropes of the richer and aloof Southerner and the poorer but warm and friendly Northerner. Doesn't mean there isn't a big dollop of truth in it though -and not difficult to see which side the majority of the upper echelons of the Tory Party come from either😀