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Post by Penddu on Jun 15, 2020 14:44:53 GMT
Taking Paris as an example, you could keep London as a large Region (population 10 million) but further divided into additional subregions of say Inner London, East London/Metro Essex, West London/ Metro West Midx, SW London/Metro Surrey, SE London/ Metro Kent.
That would then lead to non-metro Essex joining East Anglia, etc
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Post by ClevelandYorks on Jun 15, 2020 14:58:26 GMT
Is local government in London not really an example of “If it’s not broke don’t fix it”? Areas like Manchester and Merseyside, where contiguous urban areas are split between numerous incoherent metropolitan boroughs with no unifying body (other than unaccountable “Metro Mayors”) are in much greater need of attention. I am not saying the London approach should be replicated in these places, but it’s seems to be an effective sui generis system for such a large and varied city.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jun 15, 2020 15:16:58 GMT
Maybe taking NI as minimum size for a region - but increasing to 5 million (Scotland) as a maximum size could give a more balanced approach. No, I think that would be a less balanced approach in ending up with subnational entities that people had any chance of identifying with in England and avoiding the destabilizing effects of over-large regions. The whole point was to accept that large English counties are large enough already and come with ready-made identities. In practice, my range was attempting to get everything between the size of Birmingham (1 million) and the size of Wales (3 million). Scotland is indeed problematically large on that basis, but people do identify with it, and splitting it into two regions of about 2.7 million people each is particularly hilarious in a Pitchfork Bait kind of way:
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Post by Chris from Brum on Jun 15, 2020 16:56:36 GMT
Not all of it is Severnside - most of Somerset is nowhere near the Severn. I still think it should be "The West Country". The downside is that "the West Country" is a very broad region. Swindon Town and Exeter City both have fans who say their club is the "pride of the West Country" - neither of those are particularly near Bristol nor in the proposed West region. Exeter City aren't even the pride of Exeter.
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