Scottish independence
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Aye, Lowimpakt, that reminds me of an article I read 'this year or so' (which, annoyingly, I can't find or remember the source of - Economist, I think..?) which argued that much of the root cause of the London Problem is that its size in relation to sister cities across the country is vastly imbalanced compared to the spread of city sizes in other countries.
There's a hint of that argument here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finan…
This is the logic underpinning the probably flawed (in that it's not ambitious enough) HS2 train upgrades: that of bringing together northern metropolises (‘metropolii’?) to make a comparable 'super city' up in the 'North' (being from Northumberland, I'm bemused by people calling Manchester, which is in the midlands from my perspective, 'The North' :) )