Clr Ken Moss said, "The biggest cuts are in Labour heartlands, with predictions suggesting that up to 24 Labour MPs will be for the chop. Populations change all the time so this arbitrary redrawing of constituencies away from established borough boundaries is going to confuse people. It's simply a way of strengthening Conservative seats."
A statement from the Labour Whips' Office said, "The PM plans for 40 more peers (to the House of Lords) while at same time axing 50 MPs 'to reduce cost of politics' which would mean he'd made nearly 300 unelected peers since 2010."
The boundary review will take place in 2018 and Graham Jones's Hyndburn constituency is one of those under threat to be abolished which would most likely mean a merger with Blackburn or Burnley.
Fairly typical tory rigging of the odds.
ReplyDeleteFirst get rid of the rights of the people, then set about removing voting rights for the poor or homeless then set about removing the opposition from the playing field.
Pretty soon all the lessons from history that have been learned the hard way by past generations will be rewritten and demonised for the future generations.
I can only wonder about how the next four and a quarter years will completely change the country and it's political landscape and whether it will even be recognisable as a democracy by the time we get to the polls again!