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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by nmeofthestate on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:53AM (#34597614)
> England doesn’t have a power centre of its own

In fact, the UK parliament - Westminster - is a defacto English power centre. The fringe nations are a mathematical irrelevance except in extreme cases. The UK is in reality Greater England, same way the Russian Federation is Russia writ large. This narrative of forgotten, voiceless England doesn't stand up to examination.

Brexit, though, was most certainly born out of (some of) the English feeling that they were losing control of their domain to Europe.

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by jahnu on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:58PM (#34601017)
Sorry I meant more in the sense that a large number of English voters don’t feel Westminister represents their English specific concerns.

Here’s a great talk by Fintan O’Toole where he explains his take on this viewpoint far better than I ever could

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SeadvWsn_k

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