Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
City mice/country mice. The city mice "know better" and think the country mice voted Yes for silly reasons.
The city mice know the country mice voted for stupid reasons. They know this because, immediately after the result, the country mice asked the government to guarantee what the EU had previously given them. When the tendency over the past few decades indicates that the government has little inclination to give them that, and in some cases (eg. Liverpool), deliberately starve the region into irrelevance in favour of the city mice. Given the option of spending 5bn on London or spending numerous packets of 100m in outlying regions, Westminster can be relied on to give London 4.8bn while the regions have to make do with 10m each. Londoners know this, despite the regioners desperately asking Westminster for assurances that they won't miss out on the 100m that the EU had previously given them. The city mice have little sympathy for the almighty shafting that the country mice are going to get in coming years.