{"id":89616,"date":"2018-08-28T02:30:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/great-big-brexit-divide-northerners-most-positive-about-eu-divorce\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:30:31","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:30:31","slug":"great-big-brexit-divide-northerners-most-positive-about-eu-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/great-big-brexit-divide-northerners-most-positive-about-eu-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Big Brexit Divide: Northerners &#8216;most positive&#8217; about EU divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/205\/photos\/907000\/620x\/Jake-Berry-725989.jpg\" alt=\"Jake Berry \"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    S MEDDLE\/ITV\/REX\n            <\/p>\n<p>        MEETINGS: The minister has spoken to 500 workers<\/p>\n<p>The decision to quit the EU has split the nation, according to Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent three days travelling 700 miles across northern England talking to workers.<\/p>\n<p>And he revealed those in the north are far more optimistic about our post-EU future than their southern counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cNortherners are brave about Brexit. Much of the north voted for Brexit because people there feel a disconnect from what they perceive as decades of London-based, Citycentric government.<\/p>\n<p>    Related Articles<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n            \u201cLabour have become totally London focused, the politics of Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet better represent north London than support the north of England\u201d\n        <\/p>\n<p>        <cite>Jake Berry<\/cite>\n    <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLabour have become totally London focused, the politics of Corbyn and his Shadow Cabinet better represent north London than support the north of England.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, he said \u201cour commentariat, civil servants and politicians inside the M25 were raging about potential sperm shortages, a possible need for the Army to appropriate bacon and other existential crises that a no-deal Brexit might bring\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Berry left his civil service officials in London and deliberately did not meet any company directors so he could get a feel of what was being thought and talked about on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The minister chatted to 500 workers at building sites, steel mills, dockyards and offices.<\/p>\n<p>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/205\/photos\/925000\/bacon-1434925.jpg\" alt=\"Bacon in a frying pan \"\/><br \/>GETTY\n            <\/p>\n<p>            NO FEAR: Port workers are not worried about bacon supplies post Brexit<\/p>\n<p>He said that Northerners were not scared of Brexit. They \u201cvoted for change and are impatient while it comes\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Berry went to see workers in Blyth Valley, Whitby, Middlesbrough, Hull, Shipley, Rotherham and ended up at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cPort workers in the north east feel closer to Denmark than Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey dont fear their Danish friends will stop selling them bacon. \u201cThey perceive a deck loaded against them \u2013 geared towards London and the south east.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Related articles<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S MEDDLE\/ITV\/REX<\/p>\n<p> MEETINGS: The minister has spoken to 500 workers<\/p>\n<p>The decision to quit the EU has..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Great Big Brexit Divide: Northerners &#039;most positive&#039; 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