New Parliamentary Boundary
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Just read with disbelief that part of the new City of Wrexham are now going to potentially have an MP that covers an area as far as Machynlleth as reported by Wrexham.com
Who on earth in their right mind would see this as a suitable area- there is just no logical link apart from both areas being in Wales!!
I wonder how much jumping up and down Cllr Mark Pritchard has been doing – can anyone seriously think he will want to see his patch in Rhostyllen and Bersham move to mid Wales..
With the state of politics nothing shocks me! Why? Why not? Prepare for more U Turns (or Ewe Turns!)
The latest changes to how the Boundary Commission decides constituency boundaries, introduced by the Conservative government in Westminster, are just another example of an un-conservative policy they have imposed on us. Previously constituencies took into account historical boundaries (often represented as county or city boundaries), geography, sense of community, as well as population size. Instead the new reforms seem to have come from mathematical right wing thinktank which says the main priority must be size.
Absolutely no-one had a gripe with British politics because there were 10,000 fewer people in a neighbouring constituency to their own and that therefore they were under-represented. Even the old rules took numbers into account, but they were sensible enough to take into account ‘community’. Everyone feels more represented if they feel their community is represented, but if their community is fractured, the fact that their constituency is a similar size to all the others is meaningless. Part of the reason we accept the election result in each constituency is because we believe that is the decision of our community, people who weaken that feeling are weakening our democracy and should be called out as such.
Lumping Bersham to Chirk with Montgomeryshire makes no sense historically, communally, socially or economically, when all those communities are so linked (whether they like it or not) to Wrexham. It is just an example of the cynical numbers game in politics and our democracy (with its many many faults) is more important than that.
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