Experts predict a Devonwall constituency
I'm grateful to the blog for this observation about what Nick Clegg's Parliamentary Reform Bill will mean for constituency boundaries:
"In the South-West Cornwall will probably be upset about being paired with another county, but it is unavoidable. With an entitlement of almost exactly 5.5 seats it will need to be paired with Devon, between them having 17 seats, one down on currently. The former county of Avon will lose 1 seat, Gloucestershire will be largely unchanged. This leaves Dorset and Wiltshire where the average seat sizes will be too small, and Somerset where they will be too large. To me, the most sensible solution is pairing Wiltshire and Dorset, with Somerset paired with one or both of the parts of Avon originally drawn from Somerset. The result will be that Avon/Somerset lose one seat between them, and Dorset/Wiltshire lose one seat between them."
I'm ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Devon’s Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
Comment number 1.
At 7th Jul 2010, AccurateChronometer wrote:Strip out the non-resident 90% Council Tax multiple house owners and other non-resident electoral roll registrants from the electoral rolls. What does that do to constituency sizes?
Now the strategy and political agenda of swamping Cornwall with externally imposed and contrived in-migration and overpopulation to gerrymander constituencies is made clear. Not too dissimilar to what is perpetrated in the West Bank by Israel.
Patriotic Cornish MPs will resist this with all the fire in their bellies that they can muster.
There are also the major obstacles of territorial and constitutional fact standing in the way of such an insult to the Cornish people:
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