Post by bsjmcr on May 16, 2020 22:54:18 GMT
If the boundary changes were to have taken effect this would surely be at risk though, if not a Labour gain especially with the non-local candidate - it would have made the top boundary the river, and so would have taken in the Clifton council estate from Notts South (having thought about it Clarke's pro-EU views would not have gone down well here either had he stood again), and a swathe of rural land in the south (possibly including the aforementioned Sutton Bonington!) would have joined Loughborough - not a bad shout as the campus had a LE postcode from what I remember. And although vastly different socioeconomically, I don't think there was a lot on the ground separating Clifton from W.Bridgford - if anything, they were rather well-connected by tram.
It would have been called 'North Rushcliffe and Clifton', and of course 'Loughborough and South Rushcliffe'. I would have preferred 'Nottingham Clifton and West Bridgford' - to go by the city, suburb naming system for a sense of place, as Clifton could confuse in Bristol and the BBC would almost certainly misname WB as 'Bridgford West' if it was alone as a name, and Loughborough and Soar Valley (or simply Loughborough as said above the rural villages had Loughborough-facing postcodes anyway).
Those boundary plans have of course been shelved, and the plans are back to a 650-seat parliament, but could there still be changes to Rushcliffe? As Nottingham North and East are particularly undersized, for example.
It would have been called 'North Rushcliffe and Clifton', and of course 'Loughborough and South Rushcliffe'. I would have preferred 'Nottingham Clifton and West Bridgford' - to go by the city, suburb naming system for a sense of place, as Clifton could confuse in Bristol and the BBC would almost certainly misname WB as 'Bridgford West' if it was alone as a name, and Loughborough and Soar Valley (or simply Loughborough as said above the rural villages had Loughborough-facing postcodes anyway).
Those boundary plans have of course been shelved, and the plans are back to a 650-seat parliament, but could there still be changes to Rushcliffe? As Nottingham North and East are particularly undersized, for example.
