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Post by bsjmcr on Jul 6, 2020 0:23:37 GMT
Cities of Manchester and Salford!! I've seen a "Manchester Central and Salford Quays" pop up on a few proposals here, and it isn't a bad shout. |
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Post by bjornhattan on Jul 6, 2020 3:41:37 GMT
Cities of Manchester and Salford!! I've seen a "Manchester Central and Salford Quays" pop up on a few proposals here, and it isn't a bad shout. It's probably quite a lot better than "Tyne Bridge", which lasted 27 years and is still often suggested in reviews today! |
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Post by owainsutton on Jul 6, 2020 9:05:41 GMT
Remember, this is a country which until 1983 had a constituency called Eton and Slough. Come friendly bombs and fall on Eton. |
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Post by emidsanorak on Jul 7, 2020 20:16:43 GMT
Barnard Castle and Crook
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2020 20:35:27 GMT
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Post by November_Rain on Jul 9, 2020 18:19:48 GMT
North Somerset constituency - Portishead and Clevedon
West Bromwich West - Oldbury and Wednesbury
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Post by piperdave on Jul 23, 2020 18:48:12 GMT
West Bromwich West - Oldbury and Wednesbury Let's be reasonable about this... |
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jul 25, 2020 22:16:10 GMT
West Bromwich West - Oldbury and Wednesbury Let's be reasonable about this... Do you want to tell the Scottish Boundary Commission or shall I? I dare say more people could find Oldbury on a map than Badenoch and likewise Wednesbury over Doon Valley. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2020 22:22:51 GMT
Let's be reasonable about this... Do you want to tell the Scottish Boundary Commission or shall I? I dare say more people could find Oldbury on a map than Badenoch and likewise Wednesbury over Doon Valley. I mean, I do like me some Scottish Boundary Commission brain-explosions but even I had to consult a map over "Almond Valley". |
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Post by piperdave on Jul 26, 2020 17:37:55 GMT
Let's be reasonable about this... Do you want to tell the Scottish Boundary Commission or shall I? I dare say more people could find Oldbury on a map than Badenoch and likewise Wednesbury over Doon Valley. This was a test - just a bit of fun. I'm not going to defend the Boundary Commission, not least because of the monstrous names they produced in the last review. But people in Badenoch know the area that refers to, and I dare say they'd struggle to point to Oldbury on a map as well. |
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Post by piperdave on Jul 26, 2020 17:48:57 GMT
Do you want to tell the Scottish Boundary Commission or shall I? I dare say more people could find Oldbury on a map than Badenoch and likewise Wednesbury over Doon Valley. I mean, I do like me some Scottish Boundary Commission brain-explosions but even I had to consult a map over "Almond Valley". They should have called it Almondvale and then everyone in Scotland at least would have known where it was. My understanding is they wanted to differentiate between Westminster and Holyrood constituencies that were similar but not identical but that doesn't hold up to much scrutiny when you look at East Lothian. If you are going to do that, I think you need two very different systems applied across the board. You could have natural geography naming one lot, and built environment names for the other. But in no universe should there ever be a constituency called Lanarkshire South West. |
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Post by emidsanorak on Jul 29, 2020 7:59:08 GMT
Hackenthorpe and Wales
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Post by chrismalt on Jun 3, 2021 18:55:50 GMT
Ruslip, Northwood and Pinner - There is a river which rises and flows through the constituency called the Pinn. So what would be wrong with "Pinn Valley" its just as good as Mole Valley!
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Post by bsjmcr on Jun 3, 2021 21:20:16 GMT
I'm sure in the previous abandoned review I saw 'Runcorn and Widnes' and 'Accrington' (re)emerge to replace the unknown Halton, and Hyndburn, I hope that will continue to be the case in this review. Could we see the end of the names of other obscure 1974 councils being used for constituencies?
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Post by bjornhattan on Jun 3, 2021 21:26:19 GMT
I'm sure in the previous abandoned review I saw 'Runcorn and Widnes' and 'Accrington' (re)emerge to replace the unknown Halton, and Hyndburn, I hope that will continue to be the case in this review. Could we see the end of the names of other obscure 1974 councils being used for constituencies? Waveney isn't even a council any more, so hopefully that name will also disappear from the map. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2021 21:55:48 GMT
I'm sure in the previous abandoned review I saw 'Runcorn and Widnes' and 'Accrington' (re)emerge to replace the unknown Halton, and Hyndburn, I hope that will continue to be the case in this review. Could we see the end of the names of other obscure 1974 councils being used for constituencies? Waveney isn't even a council any more, so hopefully that name will also disappear from the map. Also the constituency needs to shrink to a much smaller proportion of the former district of that name |
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Post by ilerda on Jun 3, 2021 22:09:59 GMT
I’d like to see the return of the names of towns like Lowestoft, Runcorn/Widnes, Accrington, Leyland, Kidderminster etc to the constituency map. They form the bulk of their respective constituencies and are far more identifiable on a national level.
Even towns like Bridlington, Andover, King’s Lynn, Hinckley, Morpeth, Uttoxeter, Dorking etc probably deserve at least passing mention.
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 4, 2021 7:00:24 GMT
I’d like to see the return of the names of towns like Lowestoft, Runcorn/Widnes, Accrington, Leyland, Kidderminster etc to the constituency map. They form the bulk of their respective constituencies and are far more identifiable on a national level. Even towns like Bridlington, Andover, King’s Lynn, Hinckley, Morpeth, Uttoxeter, Dorking etc probably deserve at least passing mention. Hinckley forms half the electorate of the seat called Bosworth (more if you include the satellite of Barwell), and will be a higher percentage after the boundary review. This one is odd, because Hinckley is included in the name of the District Council. Uttoxeter and Morpeth are small though, and not at all in the same category. |
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Post by yellowperil on Jun 4, 2021 7:16:25 GMT
I’d like to see the return of the names of towns like Lowestoft, Runcorn/Widnes, Accrington, Leyland, Kidderminster etc to the constituency map. They form the bulk of their respective constituencies and are far more identifiable on a national level. Even towns like Bridlington, Andover, King’s Lynn, Hinckley, Morpeth, Uttoxeter, Dorking etc probably deserve at least passing mention. Hinckley forms half the electorate of the seat called Bosworth (more if you include the satellite of Barwell), and will be a higher percentage after the boundary review. This one is odd, because Hinckley is included in the name of the District Council. Uttoxeter and Morpeth are small though, and not at all in the same category. Must be the Tudor supporters giving too much emphasis on Bosworth. |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Jun 4, 2021 15:10:04 GMT
There's an outside chance that the next review will leave us with both a Waveney seat and a Lowestoft seat, as the former is probably one of the better available names if we end up with a Norfolk-Suffolk crossing in the east.
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