Parliamentary Boundary Change

[shillelagh]

i will read them properly later .. i need to go shopping ...

but what has edenfield got in common with baxenden ....

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

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

Perhaps the majority of the electorate look to other qualities, before considering a candidate's 'localness'.

Didn't a born and bred Accrington lad unsuccessfully stand against Great Harwood born Greg Pope, twice?

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Oh yes, just checked, there was someone. Called Peter Britcliffe, apparently.

Seeing as the population of Accrington is many times greater than Harwood, it really should have been a walk in the park, if localism was an important consideration to folks around here.

Remind us again, who would have been your preferred Conservative candidate at the last General Election?

Local lad, with a keen interest in politics, was it?

[garinda]

Originally Posted by shillelagh

but what has edenfield got in common with baxenden ....

So similar they should be twinned.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Boundary changes have become something of a pastime in this country, which carries a raft of civil servants (Boundaries Commission) just wondering if this goes on in other countries, I'm sure Eric, SJ Alan Gilmartin, and other expats living worldwide could enlighten us

Sorry ... even though I'm interested in the UK's latest forray into gerrymandering ... our model is of no use to you. For example, Calgary Centre has almost 90,000 voters, and the Yukon has only about 23, 000 ... However the area of Calgary Centre is 42 km2, while in the Yukon, it is 482,445 km2 And we have to consider the regions: Quebec has a certain degree of guaranteed representation, as do the Maritimes and the Prairie Provinces. It's a mess ... but it's the nature of a country having most of its population concentrated in realtively few centres. If the Great Barren Lands had a constituency the voting population would consist entirely of bears, moose, and other assorted wild life

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Eric

. If the Great Barren Lands had a constituency the voting population would consist entirely of bears, moose, and other assorted wild life

That sounds a bit like Church

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

That sounds a bit like Church

Have to admit that Yorkshire crossed my mind, but, come to think of it, Church would fit the bill

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by garinda

...and Churchill was a real geographical whore.

Representing three consituencies across the country.

None of whom he was 'local' in.

And if I remember correctly two different parties too I know he had a dabble with both Liberal and even Labour at one time

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Eric

If the Great Barren Lands had a constituency the voting population would consist entirely of bears, moose, and other assorted wild life

And they've probably got more political sense amongst them than some of these dyed in the wool backwaters.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by jaysay

And if I remember correctly two different parties too I know he had a dabble with both Liberal and even Labour at one time

As I said.

Churchill was a whore.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

And they've probably got more political sense amongst them than some of these dyed in the wool backwaters.

You're probably right ...

[g jones]

Under Party rules I will transfer to the new seat, I qualify for both exclusively because there are no other Labour MPs in them, I therefore I will take on 'incumbent status'. Ie automatically be the presumed candidate for Burnley and Accrington. There is then a trigger ballot to deselect and the real election.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by g jones

Under Party rules I will transfer to the new seat, I qualify for both exclusively because there are no other Labour MPs in them, I therefore I will take on 'incumbent status'. Ie automatically be the presumed candidate for Burnley and Accrington. There is then a trigger ballot to deselect and the real election.

Can yeh explain that in numpty language Graham?

[BERNADETTE]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

That sounds a bit like Church

Oi missus, I was brought up over yon Careful how you diss the area

[shillelagh]

cashy it means that graham will stand for Burnley and Accrington ... if the boundary changes go through ....

Burnley South and Accrington BC 78,881
Brunshaw Burnley 4,986
Cliviger with Worsthorne Burnley 4,383
Coal Clough with Deerplay Burnley 4,126
Gannow Burnley 4,381
Gawthorpe Burnley 4,751
Hapton with Park Burnley 4,727
Rosegrove with Lowerhouse Burnley 4,836
Rosehill with Burnley Wood Burnley 4,521
Trinity Burnley 3,968
Whittlefield with Ightenhill Burnley 4,846
Altham Hyndburn 4,055
Barnfield Hyndburn 3,360
Central Hyndburn 3,713
Clayton-le-Moors Hyndburn 3,688
Huncoat Hyndburn 3,499
Milnshaw Hyndburn 3,506
Netherton Hyndburn 3,365
Overton Hyndburn 4,988
Peel Hyndburn 3,182

rather than for these wards ....
Baxenden Hyndburn 3,288
Church Hyndburn 3,228
Immanuel Hyndburn 3,550
Rishton Hyndburn 5,143
St Andrew’s Hyndburn 3,408
St Oswald’s Hyndburn 5,145
Spring Hill Hyndburn 3,553
Cribden Rossendale 2,842
Eden Rossendale 2,868
Goodshaw Rossendale 3,218
Greenfield Rossendale 4,510
Helmshore Rossendale 4,686
Longholme Rossendale 4,220
Worsley Rossendale 4,436

[garinda]

Where's Ossy going?

I'll be damned if they try and annex us to bloody Lytham St. Annes.