Innocent question or two here chaps.
Was looking at various maps of share of vote of the different parties as here
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27576104
and reading about the reasons for the distribution of votes.
One of the reasons for UKIP's poor showing in London was given by various people as "Londoners are more cultured and better educated than elsewhere and are not taken in by UKIP" (this is not an exact quote but near enough!)
What occurred to me was that many of the "more cultured and better educated" may well work in London but do they actually live there and vote there?
It just seems odd that UKIP did well in "commuter land" - are people who live there less "cultured and better educated"?
It also stands out that Labour did well in London but not anywhere else south of a line from the Wash to Bristol. Is that because of "cultured and better educated Guardianistas" or the traditional vote for Labour of the working class"?
Interested in your thoughts (If you can be bothered!!)
P
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