Viewing the "Letters" columns. Politics in Yorkshire - nowt so queer as folk.

In a recent blogpost I suggested that Yorkshire might be where the first county or regionalist party gains any electoral traction.  After this letter published in The Week on January 13th I am not so sure!

Nowt so queer as folk.

To The Guardian

Simon Jenkins quotes David Cameron as saying, “we knew Yorkshire people hated the rest of us, but I never knew they hated each other”.  That’s just about the only political lesson he learnt.  The Danes probably knew the nature of the beast when they divided the county into three ridings.  There are England map T-shirts that also show the outline of Yorkshire.  Inside the county boundary is the legend “Right”, and outside, the word “Wrong”.  Yorkshire folk are united only by a sense of superiority to the rest of the world and a generalised grievance against it.  Beyond that, nowt.  Sheffield thinks the “One Yorkshire” movement is a power grab by Leeds.  Leeds thinks Sheffield has ideas above its station.  The Tory councillors of North Yorkshire would rather be seen dead than sit in a council chamber with Sheffield socialists, and so it goes.  What the Danes put asunder, let no man or woman join together.
Professor Glyn Turton, Shipley, West Yorkshire.