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Is Burnham this Generation's Blair? *SHUDDER*
ReplyDeleteTopher Dawson: Looking at the centre of population for GB (I think the islands are left out of this), it lies at Appleby Parva near Derby, well south of Manchester:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.applebymagna.org.uk/population_centre.htm
It appears to be moving south at about a mile a year, so Burnham is right to say that Manchester is in the North of the UK as a whole. I was surprised to see how far south the UK population is, and thus how distant we Scots (especially we Highlanders) are from Westminster. Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles will seldom even be a blip on the radar viewed from Westminster.
Whether his focus on the north of England will be helpful to anyone in Scotland remains to be seen.
It appears that the spiritual heart of Britain/GB/UK is that entity whose home is the Home Counties, the ring of counties surrounding London. Burnham and Manchester are well outside that bubble, and he has identified a real problem. Like James I doubt if he spends much of his time looking north of Manchester.
I find that argument almost incomprehensible. North, south, east and west are geographical rather than population concepts.
Delete70-80% of the population of Canada live within 100 miles of the US border. From north to south Canada is almost 3000 miles long. By your definition, the "north of Canada" starts within the southernmost one-thirtieth of the country!
8.47am your post is just another apologist post for Englands total disregard for Scotland other than to steal its resources. You seem happy to be subservient and accept any form of humiliation.
DeleteAnother earlier than scheduled poll, this time from More in Common.
ReplyDeleteWestminster voting intention, field work 24 - 27 July (this is the 27th), population sample 2,061.
Headline; Labour 4% lead!
Main parties with movement since last More in Common poll less than a week ago.
Lab 28% (+4) RefUK 24% (-2), Con 22% (n/c), LibDem 12% (+1), Green 8% (-3).
Burnham may regret telling Laura K fae the CIA that an early election is oot the windae.
Haud oan tae yer hat fer the Scottish sub-sample (109)
Con 20%, Lab 36%, LibDem 14%, RefUK 10%, Green 1%, SNP 20%.
Thats +19% for Labour from the last More in Common, Scottish sub-sample.
Someone’s been sniffin’ the glue at More in Common HQ over the weekend.
Any MSP/MP should challenge journalists that the nos 10 North notion represents Scotland but indicates the England first mentality of labour.
ReplyDeleteAny reason why we now need mayors when already have Provosts and Lord Provosts in Scotland. Sorry northern north area. By next year Lochs will be changed to Lakes and the rest. The ignorance or is it just arrogance of the English is clearly been highlighted by labour. Any labour MSP’s willing to put Scotland first?
ReplyDeleteNo, there aren't any. Labour MSPs' careers come first.
DeleteBut what is Swinney going to do about it?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing about it?
DeleteProbably more than you.
Delete5.15pm NOTHING.
DeleteBurnham's Manchester is north of the UK (including Scotland) population centre which lies south of Derby:
ReplyDeletehttps://web.archive.org/web/20071123015253/http://www.applebymagna.org.uk/population_centre.htm
Good luck to him wresting government money from the SE, though I doubt Scotland will see much improvement.
Topher D.
Still in the south
DeleteWhat does population have to do with geographical directions? It looks like you've half-heard a crackpot theory.
DeleteIf 3,000,000 people lived in Caithness, would it become the South? Asking for a halfwit.
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