Thread by @garius

I'm beyond the point where people who think leveling down London is the way to get investment up north receive a nice reply.

You'd think watching repeated Tory governments do the former without the latter would have been a clue.

It's an insta block these days.

90% of the time it's people who would (rightly) be up in arms if I started to claim I fully understood their transport/economic issues, or stereotyped them.

Yet they're happy to ignore London's enormous poverty problems and but into the "metropolitan elite" myth themselves.

Truth is, there is room for investment in both north AND south. But this government would rather make you think we're your enemy than properly invest in the north.

We're not. We're your ally. That's why they're CONSTANTLY trying to convince you we're not.

For the last two years I've been sat here watching the government us COVID to gut London's hard-earned local devolution, so they can kill our transport and punish us for not voting Tory enough in our elections.

And there's people up north on here who cheer that as if it's good.

It's not good. It's bad for us and even worse for you. Because by killing our economy (a net UK contributor) and our independence they remove an example of it done well.

And that means when the north demands it, they get to pretend there are no good examples elsewhere.

So don't buy into the myth that London.

REAL London.

The 10 million of us normal people just living here, not the fake London pushed at you in the papers to get you angry.

Don't buy into the myth that we're different from you, or have somehow stolen from you.

We haven't. It's just the same bullshit they pull with unionisation but on a national level.

They want the little people who have done well to do badly, so they can maintain control of other little people too.

And they want you to knock us down for them.