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Adisa

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I can't even feign outrage. This government is disgusting. We knew it before we hired them.
 

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I can't even feign outrage. This government is disgusting. We knew it before we hired them.
Yes it is. No disputing that.
But as I have mentioned, I do blame Labour for not presenting themselves as an electable alternative. Hopefully that is in the process of changing. We cannot repeat the disaster of the last election by handing a government such a large majority.
 

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I too wish I could be a pirate, taking no prisoners, crushing others for my own personal gain, longing for the days when Britain pillaged foreign land for resources and killed anyone who got in the way.

Because, let's face it, that's exactly what this cnut means.
 

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I too wish I could be a pirate, taking no prisoners, crushing others for my own personal gain, longing for the days when Britain pillaged foreign land for resources and killed anyone who got in the way.

Because, let's face it, that's exactly what this cnut means.
Typical Tory harkening back to the Victorian era. When we had work houses and little boys were sent up to clean chimneys instead of going to school.
Ahh. Those were the days eh.
 

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Boundary review commission proposals for 2024 election
sticking with 650 MPS and not reducing to 600
Constituencies now all to have between 70,000 and 77,000 people
Net effect is
Scotland looses 2MPs
Wales looses 8 MPs
England gains 10 MPS
Done by a commission and not something MP's can veto
 
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Boundary review commission proposals for 2024 election
sticking with 650 MPS and not reducing to 600
Constituencies now all to have between 70,000 and 77,000 people
Net effect is
Scotland looses 2MPs
Wales looses 8 MPs
England gains 10 MPS
Done by a commission and not something MP's can veto
I’m sure someone will come back how it benefits one party or the other... clearly depends on where in England those seats are.

disappointed the no of MPs has not been decreased. There needs to be a reduction, and to significantly reduce the House of Lords whilst we are at it.
 

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I’m sure someone will come back how it benefits one party or the other... clearly depends on where in England those seats are.

disappointed the no of MPs has not been decreased. There needs to be a reduction, and to significantly reduce the House of Lords whilst we are at it.
As its population based I suspect more seats to south east and cities .... given the general shift in population etc over the last decade or so... I'd prefer pr but as a minimum I think most constituencies should be about the same size
 

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Boundary review commission proposals for 2024 election
sticking with 650 MPS and not reducing to 600
Constituencies now all to have between 70,000 and 77,000 people
Net effect is
Scotland looses 2MPs
Wales looses 8 MPs
England gains 10 MPS
Done by a commission and not something MP's can veto
I wonder if one of the lost constituencies for Scotland will be Glasgow, which seems to have 6 at the moment with a couple in the low 50k.
 

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I’m sure someone will come back how it benefits one party or the other... clearly depends on where in England those seats are.

disappointed the no of MPs has not been decreased. There needs to be a reduction, and to significantly reduce the House of Lords whilst we are at it.
Using the suspected new boundaries to re-litigate the 2019 election, the analysis suggests that the Conservatives would win 380 seats – 15 more than it actually did – assuming everyone voted the same way.

Labour, on the other hand, would win nine fewer. The Liberal Democrats would have won just six seats – rather than eleven – and the Greens would have been completely wiped out, with Caroline Lucas’ Brighton seat disappearing
Not sure how accurate that is but it's from here https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/p...will-hand-tories-huge-majority-in-2024/11/11/


Bit more detailed breakdown of where the seats would be here...

https://amp.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/...y-shake-up-before-2024-election-39934191.html
 
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As its population based I suspect more seats to south east and cities .... given the general shift in population etc over the last decade or so... I'd prefer pr but as a minimum I think most constituencies should be about the same size
i agree. I assume London have far more constituents per head than Scotland or Wales do?
 

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i agree. I assume London have far more constituents per head than Scotland or Wales do?
I Believe the largest constituency in terms of.popukation was actually Isle of White so thats now being split into 2

London to gain two seats though so that would imply currently large constituencies

The aim is that all constituencies (except 5 given special status such as shetland isles) will be within 5% of the average constituency size
 

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Engels’s famous review of ‘social murder’ - the English political elites creating environments whereby the poorest are downtrodden to the extent where life expectancy drops due to the lack of resources to survive.

Now we’re seeing reports of companies with multi-million pound government contracts to supply food banks, charging double the market value of goods, and now Compass reportedly giving a £5, 10 day food parcel and charging the government (us) £30 for it!

They may not be pulling triggers, but with slashing hospital beds, reducing police and public services, supporting cronyism over their constituents, they are killing the most downtrodden and poorest in the country. And somehow they also have them voting for them!!!