She does 'quiet' extremely well; Julia Hartley-Brewer will tell you that.

Maybe people like living there because it is convenient for Heathrow.

Actually, that part of west London is very diverse. It may not be as economically diverse as Islington where you have to be either very poor or very rich to live there, but Kingston and Richmond do attract people from all over the world many of them will be working for the numerous international companies which have their HQs in west London.

She is living with rich 'foreign born' members of the population.

Many parts of the country are not in that happy utopia. They are living with 'foreign born' people who are able, though no fault of their own, to allow many employers to have so many jobs at the minimum wage.

Hadn't you heard Jock? It's those pesky Russians and their all conquering hacking, propaganda and fake news that's the reason, they've managed to take over and dupe huge swathes of populations around the world.....(apparently).

I don't think you can blame the Russians for plastering 350m for the NHS all over the leave website and bus.

Yes; I agree. Farmland should never be built upon with the structure of the UK now; theres literally thousands and thousands of brownfield sites already in urban areas that should be developed first- enough space for the population explosion that we are going to experience.

The EU was a good idea but its failed. The Worlds a very different place today. The euro is a failing currency thatll collapse once Britain isnt paying into the EU to prop it up.
The only thing Europe and us have to stick together on and work in conjunction with, is NATO.

Great post, well said

RIchmond was the only London borough in the 2011 census which had a white British population above 85 per cent. The average was 49 per cent and in some boroughs below 20 per cent.

So why does she live in Richmond and not say Newham where she could embrace a wider range of cultures rather than her preferred monoculture and also get much bigger house for far less money?

Just a thought!

I would suggest that it's none of your business where she lives or why she lives there. It affects no one but herself. Though obviously it makes perfect sense for her to live in the constituency that she represents.

My reasons for voting to stay in were to do with how I envisaged our attempts to leave negatively impacting on me and things like my pension fund in the ten short years until I'm due to retire. I look at the way political parties are trying to redefine themselves along pro and anti European memberships lines and how totally clueless they think we all must be when it comes to how negotiations work and if anything those fears I had are growing. I have zero faith in those who are now playing party politics over the Brexit decision to be able to get us the best possible divorce settlement.

Let a third party know you've got a plan B and prepared to compromise on x, y and z your plan B is their starting point. You've no longer got a plan A...actually that's not strictly true.... you have....it's in a folder where the B has been crossed out and an A has been handwritten over the top in crayon.

I'm not a fan of absolute freedoms of movement and immigration policies akin to handing out 300 million or so open invitations and crossing one's fingers in the hope that only a few bother to turn up. I'm not a fan of a court that sits above our supreme court and is beyond the influence of the UK electorate.. that's undemocratic in my opinion. I'm certainly not a fan of the single currency.

So no, if we weren't already in the mad house I certainly wouldn't look to become a member of it in its present guise.

I don't think it's particularly controversial or contradictory to say it's a club I'd never look to join but have concerns about how we'll leave, particularly when certain UK parties so obviously don't want to.



I've every respect for representative democracy so long as it's based on honest policies and not the opportunistic BS, spin and general contempt for the electorate we've all come to know and loathe.
Divisive and misleading campaigning has been the operating standard for years. It's not a tactic politicians save for special occasions like referenda so I wouldn't single them out for special attention.



I voted remain.


There are things that the public probably shouldn't have the final word on when they've got the added task of having to decide who is being economical with the truth and laying the BS and spin on thick. But whose fault is that? The electorate's or those parties who rely on them not scratching the surface of their arguments?
You could say it's both, but I'd be more inclined to point the finger at those in whom we're supposed to be able to trust.

It however has an edge to it if one says place X is a wonderful multicultural area where migrants have enriched our society culturally and bought untold economic benefits.
It is a kind of Billy Bragg moment or a Dianne Abbot moment when praising comprehensives.

It was Russian plaster.

and printers.

^^^^^^^^^^^ This ^^^^^^^^^^^^ every word of it.

Gosh, we learn something new every day. Well researched.

She can live where she likes but her choice of place to live is perhaps rather telling of what her real attitudes are.

Don't judge others by your own standards. Most people I know decide where to live in London based on where they work, where their friends and family live and what they can afford. They don't have access to your secret league table of cultural area mix.

Perhaps only to you. I wouldn't give it a second thought. Anyway there'd be no point in her moving out of the constituency where she lives. And if she did move to a poorer, more "multicultural" area elsewhere, she'd probably be accused of gesture politics!

RIchmond and Kingston are multicultural areas with very successful economies. Just because much of the immigration is white and/or professional doesn't mean that it lacks diversity. You don't have to be poor and from an ethnic minority to be diverse.

If you look at the most economically successful (and mostly Remain-voting) towns and cities in the UK they are all culturally diverse as they attract people from across the UK and abroad to live and work there. While diversity doesn't bring economic success, it's hard to have economic success without having diversity.

Nick Clegg is getting very excited and imploring all right minded people to hold their noses when voting and vote out Brexit MPs. I don't think he realises that this works both ways. It is all livening up a bit.

BIB - I expect he has access to statistics on the internet.

Politicians are the worst kind of human being.

The worst kind of politician?

..a Lib Dem.

I think murderers and rapists are probably the worst kind of human being.

And Lib Dems aren't that bad as politicians. Think BNP.

Read up on Jeremy Thorpe.