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Comment by AdmiralGinge | Hacker News Reader

In the minds of many people (especially British politicians!) the UK is actually "The City State of London with Four Inconvenient Countries Attached".

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Similar views can be found between Sydney and the rest of New South Wales, and also between Auckland and the entirety of New Zealand (the kiwis affectionately refer to Aucklanders as JAFAs - Just Another F$%king Aucklander, because half the country lives there).

One would suspect such complaints about the friction between centralism and federalism are widespread across the world.

I always chose to believe it was Just Another Friendly Aucklander. I knew I was lying to myself, but it makes you feel slightly better than acknowledging 2/3 of your fellow citizens don't like you.

I doubt it is personal. I live outside of my state's major city (Sydney) and feel no personal dislike to anyone in Sydney. It is just difficult to understand why someone would want to live there. And I think people outside major urban centres often feel ignored by politicians and this leads to resentment.

It appears the City State legislated on the basis that the peoples of these inconvenient countries don't exist.

https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/38437/rights-of-t...

Doesn't seem to work power-wise considering London voted against Brexit.

Brexit was caused by London to some degree. Their financial industry creates a huge demand for the pound, which hurts exports for the rest of the country. This has dampened standards of living outside the Capitol for a long time now. This phenomenon is also called dutch disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_disease

Not by a huge margin. And part of the Brexit campaign (if not most of it) was run out of London.

Part of everything in UK is run out of London.

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