The culture of South West Surrey

The last Conservative Sec of State for Culture (or National Heritage as it then was) was Virginia Bottomley, the MP for South West Surrey. The man most likely to be the next Conservative MP for South West Surrey is Jeremy Hunt, MP for South West Surrey.

In its relatively short life, it's had 8 Secretaries of State, an average stay of just over 2 years (Tessa Jowell stayed for 6, dragging up everyone elses average). But of them, 4 of them have represented London, 2 of them constituences in Greater Manchester barely 20 miles apart. As Surrey SW can scarely be said to be a long way from London that only leaves Stephen Dorrells brief (less than a year) incumbency to break out of Greaters London and Manchester.

If one of the cases that's always made for the MP-constituency link is how that carries into government and that the perspective politicians get from their constituents serve them well in government, hasn't culture been seen through a remarkably narrow prism?