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Originally Posted by Angua
Agree. This is what makes voting pretty pointless for most of the UK as they live in "safe" Tory or Labour seats.
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That's the point. People that live together share the same backgrounds and same concerns do vote for the same people. When the majority of people agree on something it makes the seat safe.
If you draw a big circle around south Manchester including Longsight, Fallowfield and Moss Side to the north and then Prestbury and Wilmslow to the south, who is going to win? The inner cities will always outnumber the suburbs and the countryside.
Or in the south, should Tower Hamlets and Chigwell really be run by the same MP?
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Changing them to equal sizes. There's also the plan to reduce Parliament from 650 to 500 MPs.
So to answer your question if adjusted to 500 MPs across the UK constituencies will be required to get bigger.
Gerrymandering constituencies to group people with similar attributes and outlooks together kinda makes elections pointless, don't you think?
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If your argument holds water then why not elect a group of MPs for "the south"?
The people in the cities have different concerns than people in the country and visa versa. Its ridiculous to think someone that lives and works several miles and social classes away from an electorate that will be able to represent them.