Dr. John Haldane - "Reasonable Disagreement and Civic Friendship in an Age of Conflict"
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
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| 0:00.0 | I think the best way to begin is just by going to page three on this for a second. |
| 0:05.0 | Just get a sense, this is looking at politics for a second, but really I would have brought this out of culture. |
| 0:10.0 | So the first thing we see on page three, you've gone to the United Kingdom, |
| 0:16.0 | yeah, so this is the Brexit map. So what this is, you know, the referendum for Britain to leave European unions. |
| 0:25.2 | And if you look at the Brexit map, basically what you'll see there is that, sorry, this is intended to be seen in colour. |
| 0:34.1 | But anyway, the basic point to get here is this. |
| 0:38.7 | Geographically, most of Britain left voted to leave Europe geographically most of Britain left |
| 0:43.8 | if you do about constituency right think of kind of congressional district or |
| 0:48.5 | something of that sort of most of Britain vote most districts think about that most |
| 0:53.1 | constituencies voted to leave Britain but |
| 0:58.5 | there are a couple of places where there are dense concentration of voting to remain |
| 1:04.2 | within the Europeans after I say to be Britain I don't believe you're a couple of |
| 1:09.2 | areas in which there's then these are these darker areas and basically |
| 1:13.6 | London is the main one and a couple of the cities in Scotland and cities in Northern Ireland |
| 1:21.4 | and an interesting question why is that well basically to mean, this would be a not uncontested analysis, |
| 1:30.6 | but I'm just going to give it to you for reasons of time. |
| 1:33.1 | The reason that London voted to remain within the European Union |
| 1:36.3 | is that London increasingly doesn't see itself as part of Britain. |
| 1:39.6 | It sees itself a kind of cosmopolitan, metropolitan centre. |
| 1:43.8 | It sees itself as a world city. It's, metropolitan centre. It sees itself as a world city. |
| 1:45.8 | It's highly ethnically diverse. |
| 1:47.5 | It's very affluent. |
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