Posts express pride that "a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country," alongside regional remarks: "Even we don't trust Lincolnshire," "Anything south of Liverpool is France," and "Because if you tip it too far we'd fall off!"
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"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
There's a fairly distinct genetic difference between the populations of Wales and England, which suggests the Anglo-Saxons did replace the existing British population in one way or another. peopleofthebritishisles.web.ox.ac.uk/population-g...
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
There's no archaeological evidence for that kind of violent break at all - continuity in agricultural patterns, etc. Clearly there is some migration, there is a big shift in language. The cities are abandoned. But there's no evidence of an "invasion" or of a big existing population being pushed west
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
That's what Bede says, a couple of centuries later, and he probably got it from Gildas, a couple of decades later. But you read Gildas and he's like a hysterical Daily Mail columnist and he's basically the only source.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
Eh, it's kind of both Jonn; after all, it's the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and nobody's saying the Isle of Wight isn't in that, despite not being part of the big island.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
This happens in the Midlands too. My husband's family all live within ten miles of Birmingham but consider a trip into the city tantamount to Shackleton's exploits.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
The *cities* of the East Midlands being relatively right-wing is part of this. The Derby area only has one reliably Labour seat and even that is now in doubt. Leicester East now has a Tory MP.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
Yes, if heading north quite a lot of that week could be spent standing on a cross-country train waiting for a seat to become available and not even making it as far as Birmingham. Average speed by train to get out of Cornwall is about 35mph.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
Though to be fair, routes all going to London isn't necessarily the south being hard done by, just a case of the north having a pluricentric urban structure and the south very much not having one.
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
And the South West, for all its beauty and its gastronomic and cultural charms, is quite frankly a horrible place to go on holiday because of the sheer amount of time you spend sitting in traffic
"It honestly makes me feel pride in this country that a complete freshie can lead the oldest and most successful party in the country."
I was a journalist in Reading for a few years. If I'd asked a question about local buses being worse than London, and a party leader talked about buses in Cardiff (which is closer than Newcastle is to Lincolnshire) then said "South Wales is near Berkshire", I would definitely have mocked them for it
