50 Mps Facing The Axe, Should There Be More?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3785416/Jeremy-Corbyn-s-seat-Commons-set-DELETED-electoral-map-Tories-planned-shake-up.html

/// The commission says Mr Corbyn’s Islington North seat should be scrapped, with some of it added to shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry’s seat in Islington South. The rest will go to a new seat called Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, which takes in half of the seat occupied by shadow health secretary Diane Abbott and contains a very high Jewish population. ///

No good Mr Corbyn fighting for that seat then.

[andy-hughes]

Interesting.

I think the notion has validity - re-shaping constituencies to a roughly equal size is a positive move.

Of course, it does do damage to the Labour, end of things, and as you point out, Mr Corbyn may struggle mustering the Jewish vote given his current issues with anti-Semitism in his party.

Interesting times ahead then ...

[agchristie]

Well it would be nice if the Election results didn't take most of the Friday too!

As if Labour didn't already have a mountain to climb.However,they have plenty of time to get their act together.

Some serious issues to be addressed by the Tories.If they don't deliver,then boundary changes may not be a serious disadvantage for Labour.

A predicted 44 seat lead can easily be eroded.

[Old_Geezer]

It's not the size that is important so much, but the number constituents represented.

I tend to think seventy two thousand constituents is already a lot for a single representative to serve and interface with properly.

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, we should have approx 300 in my opinion, and 100 elected lords, bin the rest. Don't get me started on devolution and local government. we should have as few snouts in the trough as possible.

[Zacs-Master]

It'll be the same sized trough Tora, just a bit more space to gorge.

[ichkeria]

It's good to try to be fairer.
I personally think it's a shame to be cutting the number of MPs.
Ultimately it means less representation, fewer independently minded representatives, etc
And the danger of mucking about with constituencies TOO much is that you end up with many that have no natural geographical identity, which cannot help motivate people to get out and vote I wouldn't have thought.

[Jackdaw33]

America manages with just 435 Reps. and 100 Senators.

[youngmafbog]

I'm with TTT, and I dont see how the trough wil be the same size, certainly the bill for the Lords would be dramatically cut.

And just think of the ongoing savings on Gold plated pensions the rest of us poor suckers can only dream of.

[Zacs-Master]

Any of us 'poor suckers' can become an MP.

[Old_Geezer]

And look at the state they're in JD.

[ichkeria]

Although America is a Federation of states, which all have their own govts, so not a fair comparison.
The state of Maryland in fact, has 139 representatives for a population of 6 million, which seems rather a lot.
And that's just the lower house.

[youngmafbog]

Not entirely true ZM, unless of course you subscribe to the Establishment or are loaded.

I'm not sure too many ABers would be allowed to stand under a main party banner and as an independent (as most of us seem to have too many morals) it is virtually impossible unless, as I said, you are loaded.

[Zacs-Master]

I have to, sadly, concede that you're probably right YMB.

[Gromit]

I support the move to equalise constituencies and reshape based on demographics and relocation of citizens. However, I have 2 problems with the current proposals.

1. The do not take into account 2 million people who newly resisted to vote in June. So the new new seats will be out of date and inaccurate before they start.

2. Judging by my own constituency, the re-draw makes absolutely no sense. I would never have guessed at the change for my area because it is barmy. Geographically, socially and administratively it is just plain daft. If my area is anything to go by, these proposals will meet with considerable resistance, not just from the politicians, but from the public.

[Gromit]

* Registered* to vote in June.

[ToraToraTora]

what's daft about Islington gromit?

[ichkeria]

Gromit is right to raise the point about registration: given the obvious problems with the new system, it seems like a poor idea to be using it as the basis for the new boundaries.
Where boundary redrawing becomes really silly is in towns like ours where they, seemingly arbitrarily, take a chunk of the suburbs, and lump it in a different town. It would be better not to do this, even at the expense of evening constituency numbers.