So you want to stay in the EU?

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Good for you Genie and there is nothing wrong with the occupied territories [wink], but with them making up the largest block of the UK if their policies impact on us they need to be called out on such policies.

Do you think that people in Cornwall, Newcastle, Cumbria, Stoke, Shrewsbury and/or Norfolk are all part of the ruling English block? Or is your beef really about the centralisation of wealth in the South East (a criticism made in many other countries regarding their capital cities and the areas where more wealth is accumulated)?

[trampie09]

Do you think that people in Cornwall, Newcastle, Cumbria, Stoke, Shrewsbury and/or Norfolk are all part of the ruling English block? Or is your beef really about the centralisation of wealth in the South East?

Centralisation of wealth in the South East of England and to a lesser extent the South East corner of Wales as well.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

Centralisation of wealth in the South East of England and to a lesser extent the South East corner of Wales as well.

In the most populous cities in countries then.

[trampie09]

In the most populous cities in countries then.

That is the way the world is apparently going, its definitely the way the UK is going with power and services being centralised in regional city states with out lying villages and communities left to decline.

[Taunton Blue Genie]

That is the way the world is apparently going, its definitely the way the UK is going with power and services being centralised in regional city states with out lying villages and communities left to decline.

Twas ever thus. From the days when man changed from a nomadic lifestyle to domesticating animals and planting crops and in the period of the Industrial Revolution when people left rural areas in their droves. People migrated to where the wealth was being created and abandoned the hinterland. Yes, government can intervene in the process to some degree...

[trampie09]

Twas ever thus. From the days when man changed from a nomadic lifestyle to domesticating animals and planting crops and in the period of the Industrial Revolution when people left rural areas in their droves. People migrated to where the wealth was being created and abandoned the hinterland. Yes, government can intervene in the process to some degree...

Packing cities with more and more people only leads to overcrowded, smog filled slums, but that seems to be what the policies of the major UK parties lead too.