Although Inner London is the richest of all, but the only part of this country on the rich list, nine of the 10 poorest areas in Northern Europe are in the United Kingdom.
Take a bow, County Durham.
We are the third poorest place in the United Kingdom, the Irish Republic, France, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark and the Benelux countries put together.
Signs outside churches in Arkansas, always forty-seventh out of 48, used to say, "Thank God for Mississippi." Ours ought to say, "Thank God for West Wales and Cornwall."
But no part of Scotland among the poorest of the poor? That comes as no surprise. The most expensive shop rents outside London are in Glasgow. Not Edinburgh. Not Aberdeen. Glasgow.
It is notable how many of these areas vote Labour hardly, if at all.
As it is that no one writes a national newspaper column from any of them, that nothing on television (whether drama or documentary) is ever set in any of them, and so on.
As it is that no one writes a national newspaper column from any of them, that nothing on television (whether drama or documentary) is ever set in any of them, and so on.
Does anyone know how crowdsourcing works? I have an idea.
Good luck.
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