Parts of Cornwall might well be run-down – I remember Cambourne and Bodmin seeming particularly down at the hell, but its landscape more than makes up for it whereas the likes of Norfolk and Lincolnshire have no such redeeming features.

The South West may indeed have some chavvy towns – and you could add Plymouth, Bristol even Paignton to those you mention, but these are vastly outnumbered by those in the home counties alone – Stevenage, Hemel Hempsted, Harlow, Grays, Stains, Bracknell, Basildon, Slough, Welwyn, Watford, Southend, Pitsea, Braintree, Reading, Dartford, Gravesend, Maidstone, Margate, Ramsgate, Chatham, Strood, Sheppey, Dover, Ashford I could go on

There seems to be an assumption that the Tory-voting habits of the voters from such towns makes them less chav – a rather bizarre conclusion

I was mainky focussing pon counties in the far west (the wesat country) and those which boarder Wales.

Dorset is neither although I’m the first to say it’s one of the most unspoilt and picturesque counties in the whole country

I don’t see that

Taking Wales out the equation altogether, my understanding is that western England is almost universally seen as far nicer and more desirable than Eastern England

And its not hard to see why

The east coast offers us the chav counties of Kent and Essex, Norfolk which has no shortage of delapidated, run-down small towns, flat Lincolnshire, arguably the most boring county in the UK, and then further up the north east coast industrial towns like Hull, Middlesborough, Hartlepool, Stockton and Sunderland

This contrasts with the scenic counties of Devon Cornwall and Somerset in the West Country, Glucestershire with its cotrswold hills and rural Shropshire and Herefordshire

Its only once we get past Cheshire up to Merseyside coast where things turn a little less nice

If there were a line from the Wash to the severn, I’d suggest most people would want to be placed on the left of that divide

One kind of division I don’t like very much is the “line from the Severn to Wash” one because it means places like Worcestershire West and Solihull are placed in the “poor” category.