This happens everywhere, through all of history. A lot happens over such long period of time.
Liverpool used to very rich, but then those wishy-washy bastards banned slavery and it’s been down hill ever since.
Look on the bright side, in another 100 years London will be under water.
And Winchester will be the capital again 
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Not managed decline, Thatcher knew what she was doing when she shut the mines, (the textile mines are different), why help Labour heartlands?
Brexit was the North’s revenge, don’t expect pity.
Thatcher yes, but she wasn’t in power 100 years ago, was she?
No it wasn’t. Who wants pity and what for?
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The North has always been forgotten, I didn’t realise by how much until I lived up here, you can’t really comment on that as you haven’t lived up here to be fair.
People know the service industry down South brings in lots of tax revenue, its doesn’t produce anything, what does it make? It pays the most so most people in that field go there, in turn create stale dormitory soulless towns and suburbs, London actually sucks life out of others, don’t get me wrong its an amazing City and one if I could live in a nice area I jump at moving to but 90% of it is shite, expensive, lonely and unfriendly.
How many fracking sites will end up down south?
Dunno Barry. How many coal mines were there in Hampshire?
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There’s no coal in Hampshire, there’s shale though.
What utter shit. BAE, the UK’s largest manufacturer with revenues of over £8bn, has sites in Surrey, Dorset and Wiltshire, as well as London. This is just one example you biased knob.
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Closing them as well.
Tons of manufacturing down south. End of.
Uk wide, despite popular opinion, we are the world’s 8th largest manufacturing country. As has been pointed out to you before, we major in very high value, technical and specialist products and in some of these (e.g. satellites) we are world leaders.
We employ few though, we manufacture for others not ourselves to sell and are at the total mercy of global markets.
Tata for example
You can spin numbers anyway you want but we’re a long long way from where we used to be.
You are changing your point now, because you were full of it. You said the South doesn’t produce anything. You are wrong.
Yeah BAE makes £8 billion by not selling anything itself. Ok 
It doesn’t really.
Isn’t BAE losing money?
Changing your point again
No I’m not, the South, the UK doesn’t mass produce anything, its highly expensive highly specialised and thats great, not the major population.
Its good for the Saudi’s though.
You quoted them making £8 Billion and I said I thought they were losing money, merely asking the question, and I thought I was the one posting shite.
Our the UK’s manufacturing base is very very expensiive to maintain even with the helping hands, backhanders and hotel drinks.