Strengthening regional identities could be the key to keeping communities united and persuading the able and ambitious to stayBritain is today experiencing a rerun of the 1970s social class stalemate when neither organised labour nor the establishment and wide middle class was strong enough to prevail – until the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. This time,the stand-off is between value groups – what I possess called the people from Anywhere, the educated and mobile, and the people from Somewhere,the more rooted and conservative.
The Anywheres are only approximately 20-25% of the population but their progressive individualist policies, prioritising openness, and autonomy and cognitive ability,possess dominated politics for more than a generation and promoted, among other things, or mass immigration and mass higher education.
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Source: guardian.co.uk