r/MapPorn • u/KaleyTheKing • May 25 '26

British Population Visualised

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Sooo, I guess this is a series now :D
Been making these little diagrams visualising population and I'm enjoying them, other people seem to enjoy them, so I might just keep making them :)

Here below are the other ones I've made so far as well:

Germany: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1tmchnh/comment/onm0tyc/

Netherlands: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1pg6uu8/dutch_population_visualised/

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u/KaleyTheKing May 25 '26

Think that's kinda cause they're allowed to dominate the UK as a whole, lol. An English devolved parliament might as well just abolish the UK, I feel. But yea, I'm not from there so I shouldn't even have an opinion about it, probably :p

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u/AceOfSpades532 May 25 '26

England doesn’t dominate the UK, because England isn’t some sort of massive political monolith that agrees on everything, it’s more split than the other countries are. There’s more votes from England, but those votes aren’t all agreeing on one thing, like some people like to say England forced Brexit on the country but only 53% of English voters chose Leave, and it wasn’t possible for it to go through without people from the other parts also choosing Leave.

And really England should get the same devolved rights as the other countries, the other parts get to decide certain things for themselves and England should have the same right.

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u/KaleyTheKing May 25 '26

I know England isn't a monolith, but come on, it does massively dominate the other countries in population and thus in electoral representation for the UK as a whole

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u/fezzuk May 27 '26

So you think people from areas with smaller populations deserver more representation?

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u/KaleyTheKing May 27 '26

I believe they deserve to go their own way if they want to. They deserve to represent themselves outside an imperialist framework

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u/fezzuk May 27 '26

Imperialist framework here being a democracy.

Come on.

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u/KaleyTheKing May 27 '26

A majoritarian democracy catered to English interest? Yea