Don’t carve up constituency (From Daily Echo)
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Don’t carve up constituency
8:36am Tuesday 15th June 2010 in
ISLE of Wight MP Andrew Turner is launching a campaign to stop the Government slicing his constituency in two and giving half to another MP.
The Conservative MP, pictured, said he would “vigorously oppose” any attempt to carve up the constituency after Prime Minister David Cameron told the Commons it was “not fair” that Mr Turner had to look after 110,000 constituents when the average constituency contained about 76,000 voters.
The Isle of Wight is currently the largest constituency in the UK, in population terms, and if boundaries were redrawn so that each MP represented the same number of people then the Island could end up being split into two, or parts of the Island joined politically with different parts of the mainland.
Mr Turner, who is leading a Westminster Hall debate on the matter today, said: “The Isle of Wight has a unique identity and needs special consideration. I will vigorously oppose any proposals to merge part of the Island with a mainland constituency.”
Mr Cameron, speaking during Prime Minister's Questions, said: “It is important that we have reform so that we have equal-sized constituencies across our country.”
Comments(9)
southy
says...
10:20am Tue 15 Jun 10
Redfield wrote:its larger than southampton and yet we have 2 and 1/3 constituency, maybe it be good idea to take say 30 to 40,000 voters and add them to the new forest.
Compared to the size of other constituencies IOW is tiddley and it is hard to fathom why they are even contemplating carving it up - especially when the gov are talking of reducing the number of MP's. I thought we'd got rid of the senseless logic of gov with the last lot but it seems there is still some leftovers!
Adrian Smith
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11:27am Tue 15 Jun 10
Redfield wrote:Yes, they should be looking to grow the userbase to 100,000+ per constituency - and cutting the relevant number of MPs.
Compared to the size of other constituencies IOW is tiddley and it is hard to fathom why they are even contemplating carving it up - especially when the gov are talking of reducing the number of MP's. I thought we'd got rid of the senseless logic of gov with the last lot but it seems there is still some leftovers!
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Does Turner manage those 110,000 well? I don't know but if he does then other MPs must be made to operate as efficiently as him.
JaneNB
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11:30am Tue 15 Jun 10
It would have addessed the overall iniquity.
Instead he acts like Canute, trying to order back the waves of equal representation. Past his sell by date?
Condor Man
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1:08pm Tue 15 Jun 10
SotonChris
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1:20pm Tue 15 Jun 10
southy
says...
2:22pm Tue 15 Jun 10
Adrian Smith wrote:i would agree with you on the equal amount off voters in each constituencys like the new forest only needs one mp. a lot off tory seats have less voters in there constituency and are rural.
Redfield wrote:Yes, they should be looking to grow the userbase to 100,000+ per constituency - and cutting the relevant number of MPs.
Compared to the size of other constituencies IOW is tiddley and it is hard to fathom why they are even contemplating carving it up - especially when the gov are talking of reducing the number of MP's. I thought we'd got rid of the senseless logic of gov with the last lot but it seems there is still some leftovers!
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Does Turner manage those 110,000 well? I don't know but if he does then other MPs must be made to operate as efficiently as him.
Maine Lobster
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4:33pm Tue 15 Jun 10
I doubt you will see any constituency carve ups in Labour heartlands!
MapsMan
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6:32pm Wed 16 Jun 10
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Redfield says...
9:09am Tue 15 Jun 10