I don't agree with...

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...everything Paul Mason says, but when he gets it right, he gets it VERY right.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/09/england-northern-towns-power-may?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

That is a brilliantly incisive and thoughtful article. The problems that the post industrial north have are not Europe and Immigration. Farage wants you to blame them as the problem because then you'll vote for what he REALLY wants - which is to drive us far to the right. The problem is really that we in the North need the power to run our own affairs on a large scale.