I live next door to Richmod on Thames and it's a place I'm very familiar with, my husband rented offices from a firm of solicitors as one of his best pals was a partner in the practice. These offices were in a Georgian building on the Green and I worked there for a while. The people of Richmond and neighbouring Barnes are not really representative of the rest of the country, it's a bit like Hampstead and parts of Islington insomuch as it's incredibly affluent plenty of BBC and wealthy media types live in these areas, Richard Attenborough had a large Georgian house on The Green and his brother David lives up the hill as did Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall and various other A listers. Richmond is not typical of the country as a whole, it's an enclave of elite and privilege and there are many there that embody the "metropolitan elite" that we hear so much about these days. They overwhelmingly voted for "Remain" no suprise there and it was quite predictable that they voted against Zac Goldsmith in the way that they did because it was a protest vote. I've met enough Richmond and Barnes residents to know that they are not representative of the country as a whole only of a type.