Hello Mr/Miss/Mrs/Ms .
I don't live in Godalming - I was down there on an assignment today, that's all. It wasn't until I was handed this job that I discovered that Godalming is pronounced "GOD-ull-ming" - when I first read the name I called it "God-AWL-ming" which was met with jeers and cries of "ignorant Scottish bar steward" by some of my colleagues.
Anyway GOD-ull-ming is a really nice wee town - just to remind you of your former home area this is it live on a webcam - as it's now almost 23:15hrs now it's somewhat dark and deserted in the town centre but most probably when you view it you will see more action in the street.
Yes, it very much is stockbroker belt area and it looks and sounds it..."posh EERP accents galore" with tinges of Estuary in some of the younger members of the community.
http://www.godalmingonline.com/webcams/high-street/
Actually Alderley Edge, like nearby Prestbury, Knutsford and other neighbouring towns and villages, is also in a stockbroker belt, south of Manchester - green pastures and all, and I imagine that it's attracted its residents from all over the place, hence the range of accents including those from the areas of the UK you mentioned. I've never been to the area myself but I have been to Manchester city centre - I enjoyed the vast Trafford Centre.
I'm not sure about the accent of the "arsehole" yelling man in Leeds....he didn't sound like a Yorkshireman to me - more of a Midlander maybe. As I went to uni in Leeds I'm quite familar with the Yorkshire accents (even they in themselves vary!) but there again, Leeds is quite a large city so it houses a multitude of accents, foreign as well as homegrown, but the accents situation in the UK is a very complex one indeed....there are many people living in Leeds who sport quite "posh" EERP accents who have never lived anywhere else but in the city area....you'll find plenty of them living in suburbs like Horsforth and Alwoodley, among others.....professional people, so called. ;-)
As I say, questions such as that one in the Harriet Harman clip are exceedingly rare in the "Question Time" program, but you can bet your boots that the questioner had Harman in mind when he put it to the panel...and like manna from heaven she responded - after a wee bit of hesitancy - like a lamb to the slaughter! Wonderful stuff.
If she really succeeds, as is her dearest wish, in replacing Gordon Brown as PM and leads the Labour Party into the General Election next spring the result will undoubtedly be one mega mega landslide for the Conservative Party...the woman is bonkers, plain and simple, afflicted with chronically narrow tunnel vision focussing on one aim only....the promotion of the most virulent form of feminism and the total disempowerment of the male gender almost to the point of castration.