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I would have been impressed if he'd gone with the "I hear you fucked up the Darien thing, but were so keen on colonialism and slaving you decided to go with the Act of Union" line.
This is about a binary world view which is addictive to the sort of person who insists that they are always the good one.
In the event of a unitary English state I'm sure "bad" parts of the country will be identified as the seat of evil in order to protect idiots from nuance and commonality.
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Is there a Hulk reformation? Are there Hulk Quakers?
What with Blair on ‘getting involved in Middle East wars of choice’ and now this, I feel we’re just in need of George Osborne to chime in on ‘how public services feel underinvested in’ to get the full caboodle of unwanted advice.
I think the distinct institutional base in Scotland, that fed exceptionalist/unionist and nationalist narratives is clearly a product of history (union Vs annexation)
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One of the really weird things about the grammar school thing is that the nostalgia is for the bit of the Butler act that was never really enacted. The secondary tech that concentrated on high quality industry focused education.
I don't think this is about improving things for the minority.
I think it's for elderly voters who see low demand for graduates and want their grandchildren to have the opportunities they had without higher ed.
So, kill improved educational attainment and you kill the HE path.
The west half of North Yorkshire exist primarily as a vehicle for anxieties about being "not Bradford, not urban" in the 70s. I don't really think that much has changed.
I suppose all the places that were "lost" were peripheral to the rest of the county and also to the places they were appended to.
I think it gives a certain type of politically active person a motif to suggest nefarious external interference in local business.
Glyn Hughes writing about Saddleworth in the 70s thought the irredentism was mostly incoming commuters who were appalled they might have Oldham overspill estates.
I have a vague recollection of an article where people under 40 in Barnoldswick didn't know, or care, they used to be in Yorkshire.
The built environment in Dewsbury is exceptional. A living rebuke to the idea that architectural beauty means magic economic development.
I wonder what it would be for people who left at 18, never to return, and decided to make it their bit.
Boring
Hot air balloonist
Mage 3rd level
Engineer in textiles, tool making, confectionery, clock making, also AEU rep and perpetual mardarse hence frequent changes of employer.
Blacksmith/farrier or quarryman/reservoir construction depending on the economic cycle.
Could anyone arrange for non-deliverism to be dead?
I like Henderson's but I would never push it as without Lea & Perrin's some people will be pushed to go on about Elgar and shit.
"It's none of your business what I'm hiding under the cache-misère of my own mythology!"
"Richard! Stop hiding under a cache-misère of your own mythology! We have guests!"
Yeah, but it made lots of sense prior to the development of the dual economy in the West riding from about 1500 onwards.
One Yorkshire was right, just 600 years late.
Ant is right about the Cornwall solution here.
Annoyingly the reason the Cornwall solution exists is because of the mad idea that holds in the UK that devolving power is validated by cultural/national difference rather than the institutional base that developed to recognise that difference.
Accurately conveys the feeling of excitement when someone from Leeds experiences mass transit systems.
I just want to find ways to fuck up North Yorkshire and Cheshire.
Much of the country doesn't want or need more powers. The secondary cities do and for the most part have deals that can be ratcheted.
I don't even think you need to bring in the hinterlands a la Redcliffe-Maud.
Just give the cities the right to levy a local income tax supp by employer location.
For more on the problem of "elite projection" -- the tendency of elites to support transit plans that cater to their own tastes -- see here: humantransit.org/2017/07/the-...
