Look. Those of us who live in London do know that the rest of you hate us. We don’t even think you’re wrong to hate us, sometimes. The capital does suck up too much spending and too much attention, while other bits of the country are starving from the lack of either of them. What’s more, London has a nasty habit of taking your children from you and never giving them back again, like some kind of fairy-tale goblin. And nobody likes goblins, do they? So no wonder you all hate them. Bloody goblins.
Where was I? Right, yes: you hate London, probably, and fair enough. As a left-leaning, Remainer city, we’re a bit sick of being conflated with the government/Westminster/the Conservative Party, and being held responsible for all the ills of this country. But nonetheless, the United Kingdom really would be a lot better and a lot happier if its capital wasn’t quite so dominant and its economic and political power was more evenly spread among its regions. You’ll get no argument from me there.
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