Well I certainly don't think these are the boundaries she would have drawn herself, and I imagine she was hoping for better. I think the Tories believe that nationally the reduction to 600 seats, combined with the equalisation of registered electorates in each seat, will benefit them, but there's a huge amount of local variation.The other thing that irritates me about the Coalition's plans on boundaries is that they intend for us to go through all this every five years. Given the continuing growth and movement in population in our part of London, this is likely to mean boundaries changing to some extent every time, with wards being traded like children's football cards. While I may disagree with Sarah in our opinions of individual MPs, past and present, I do think that the absence of continuity in boundaries is distracting for the politicians and confusing for the public. But, as I said in my last post, the commissioners are not to blame.
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