A Parasitic Relationship

Southern Cash Buys Northern Votes

"A widening North-South divide has been exposed by a YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph that shows the Tories are piling up votes in London and the Home Counties while failing to make any significant inroads north of the Trent. The result of a north-south divide with the Tories controlling the South and Labour the North could have servere constituional consequences."

The reason for this electoral dispartity is the contrasting attitudes to taxation and public spending in different regions:

"Public spending in parts of the North accounts for almost 60 per cent of the economy - a level of intervention as high as in some old communist states - compared to just 30 per cent in the South."

Labour's vote is then cemented in areas where the economy depends on high public spending, whereas the Tories are supported in areas that pay more in taxes but feel they get less back from central government. As I have stated before, this is a systematic attempt by the Labour party to create an effective client state that will ensure it remains in power for the foreseeable future.