Parliamentary Boundary Change - Page 5

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 08:23

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Originally Posted by Neil

How often have you contacted your MP about an issue?
Most people never will so will it really make any difference to them if he/she is a little further away when they need them?

It has been mentioned on here before that we have to many MP's.

I would be more worried if they decided to get rid of HBC and move the same wards into Blackburn and Burnley.

I think the idea of having an MP is that they ARE there if required, which is why its important to me that the person selected to represent us at Westminster is some one local, irrespective of political party. I good constituency MP is essential to places like Hyndburn and who better to represent us than some one born and bread here

Neil · 13-09-2011, 08:31

I suppose it depends on your definition of local.
If you live in Rishton Blackburn is about the same distance to Accy.

What is important is that your MP is accessible when required.

Graham is a good one, he splits his time between here and London but if you need him and he is in London at the time it makes no difference if he lives in Accy or Blackburn.

I was reading about an MP in the paper the other day who has not held a surgery for years and you have to make an appointment to see him. It did not say where meetings took place but implied in London.

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 09:04

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Originally Posted by Neil

I suppose it depends on your definition of local.
If you live in Rishton Blackburn is about the same distance to Accy.

What is important is that your MP is accessible when required.

Graham is a good one, he splits his time between here and London but if you need him and he is in London at the time it makes no difference if he lives in Accy or Blackburn.

I was reading about an MP in the paper the other day who has not held a surgery for years and you have to make an appointment to see him. It did not say where meetings took place but implied in London.

Ya I read about him too, don't think he would have lasted that long in Hyndburn irrespective of Party

garinda · 13-09-2011, 09:09

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Originally Posted by jaysay

its important to me that the person selected to represent us at Westminster is some one local

If only Margaret Thatcher had to try and get a seat in Lincolnshire, rather than miles away in London, we might not have heard of her.

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 09:32

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Originally Posted by garinda

If only Margaret Thatcher had to try and get a seat in Lincolnshire, rather than miles away in London, we might not have heard of her.

And your point

garinda · 13-09-2011, 09:59

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Originally Posted by jaysay

And your point

Just that Mrs. Thatcher, Winston Churchill, and countless others represented constituencies in which they had no ties, and weren't local.

If forced to fight for a local seat we might never have heard of them.

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 10:06

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Originally Posted by garinda

Just that Mrs. Thatcher, Winston Churchill, and countless others represented constituencies in which they had no ties, and weren't local.

If forced to fight for a local seat we might never have heard of them.

If your interested in making a difference you'll always find a way, I remember when Ken Hargreaves first stood for Parliament he openly stated he had no interest in representing anywhere else but Hyndburn. When he lost his seat in 1992 he could have gone elsewhere and applied to be a candidate at by elections but just wasn't interested, if others had that ethos it would only help to create a more representative society

garinda · 13-09-2011, 10:08

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Originally Posted by jaysay

And your point

Who knows? Perhaps Karen Buckley could have been the next Mrs. Thatcher.

If only those mean local Tories had given her a half decent chance, and supported her.

Instead of ripping up their party membership cards, and spitting out their dummies, because her links to the area were only through her mother.

Guess we'll never know.

Poor Mrs. Buckley.

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 10:16

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Originally Posted by garinda

Who knows? Perhaps Karen Buckley could have been the next Mrs. Thatcher.

If only those mean local Tories had given her a half decent chance, and supported her.

Instead of ripping up their party membership cards, and spitting out their dummies, because her links to the area were only through her mother.

Guess we'll never know.

Poor Mrs. Buckley.

My thoughts were aired about Ms Buckley at the time and at least I had the courage of my own convictions on a matter of principal having a candidates list forced on us my CCO

garinda · 13-09-2011, 10:19

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Originally Posted by jaysay

My thoughts were aired about Ms Buckley at the time and at least I had the courage of my own convictions on a matter of principal having a candidates list forced on us my CCO

...and if the local Tories in Finchley had thought the same as you, you'd never have had your Mrs. Thatcher.

jaysay · 13-09-2011, 10:21

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Originally Posted by garinda

...and if the local Tories in Finchley had thought the same as you, you'd never have had your Mrs. Thatcher.

have no doubt that Margaret Hilda would have been MP for Grantham if she had needed to

garinda · 13-09-2011, 10:29

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Originally Posted by jaysay

have no doubt that Margaret Hilda would have been MP for Grantham if she had needed to

Highly doubtful.

There was a sitting Conservative M.P., Kenneth Lewis, from 1959 - 1987.

So she wouldn't have been able to enter parliament, and wouldn't that have been a shame?

garinda · 13-09-2011, 10:37

...and Churchill was a real geographical whore.

Representing three consituencies across the country.

None of whom he was 'local' in.

lancsdave · 13-09-2011, 12:34

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

RIP Hyndburn with Haslingden

The Boundary Commission this morning announced the passing away of the Hyndburn with Haslingden Constituency. There will be no funeral; instead, the body will be divided in two; the right half will become part of Dingle land and the left half will be blasted into the wildlands of somewhere called Darwen and Haslingden.

Flowers may be sent to everyone in the constituency, but especially to Graham Jones, M.P.

Makes sense to me that the RIGHT half becomes Dingleland and the WRONG half goes elsewhere

Neil · 13-09-2011, 13:36

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Originally Posted by lancsdave

Makes sense to me that the RIGHT half becomes Dingleland and the WRONG half goes elsewhere

You will feel at home again