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Rural areas are richer than urban areas. Why subsidised (sic) the rich?

Paul Flynn MP

Again, Paul shows his absolute hatred of the countryside and rural communities and is willing to lie to paint them in a bad light.

There are 48 counties or boroughs in the UK with higher average earnings than anywhere else in the whole of the UK. There are no prizes for guessing that London scores highly here. In fact, London boroughs take eight of the top 10 places in the GMB union’s top-earning boroughs. The City of London comes top with an average salary of £75,587, a whopping 261% of the national average.

Tower Hamlets, no doubt boosted by trendy Wapping and Canary Wharf, comes in second place with average salary of £71,838. This figure then falls fairly sharply to £50,781 in the City of Westminster, £47,123 in Islington, £43,269 in Hammersmith and Fulham and £39.904 in Camden. Windsor and Maidenhead, then Bracknell Forest come next before two more London boroughs - Lambeth and Southwark. But the latter is still raking in 128% of average earnings with £35,984.

The last five areas to enjoy above average earnings are Manchester (£29,032), Hampshire (£28,716), Milton Keynes (£28,605), Oxfordshire (£28,480) and the City of Edinburgh (£28,386).

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The 10 areas with the lowest average gross annual earnings are the isle of Wight (£21,325), Powys (£21,249), Torbay (£21,173), East Renfrewshire (£21,150), Ceredigion (£21,085), Rutland (£21,048), Denbighshire (£20,860), Scottish Borders (£20,756), Darlington (£20,550) and Moray where the average salary of £20,447 puts workers at just 72% of the national average.

Those rural bastards in London, Manchester, Hampshire (which includes Southhampton & Portsmouth), Milton Keynes, Oxford and Edinburgh are cash grabbing bumpkins aren't they Paul? Not like those urban poor in the Isle of White, Powys, Ceridigion and Denbighshire!

In Paul's world, because there are farmers and some rich people in the countryside they deserve to be treated differently by the state. When his government promises 'fast broadband' he wants it only to apply to people in the cities.

Newport really does deserve better than this clown.