Let the great boundary rejig commence

[MaxQue]

Ah, where would cartoonists be without that plum pudding?



(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Caricature_gillray_plumpudding.jpg)

What is supposed to be that thing?
It has a rather strange shape, if it is supposed to be a plum pudding.

[MaxQue]

I read somewhere that had the new boundaries been used in the 2010 election, Caroline Lucas wouldn't have gotten her seat. 

True.

But I suppose than they got lower votes in the added areas because they didn't campaigned there.
Notionals aren't appropriate for small parties.

[MaxQue]

I think those commissions are writing to various organisations, to inform them of the process.

Obviously, they don't hav much to say on that subject, but they were polite and answered.

And Boundary Commission published all things they received.

[MaxQue]

Oooh, and the mayor of Ballymoney:

"There is an elephant in the room which I am not allowed to mention, about the makeup of Glenshane and the North Antrim constituency, but everything else was said." North Antrim being a red herring here, of course.

That elephnt being the unionist/nationalist balance?

[MaxQue]

What would be necessary, and indeed sort of logical, but is not going to happen because that is not the way laws work, is for the Commissions to be given new, nonpartisan procedures which to use in order to start from scratch with.
Since the Commissions will be forced to bumble on incompetently, I fully expect Clegg to climb down and meekly enact the gerrymander in the end.

The proposals are not gerrymandering.

Then, I suppose you can write a defense of Mersey Banks.

[MaxQue]

Some bias is an inevitable feature of the electoral system the UK uses.

^ THIS.

Just look at the advantage the Canadian Tories have...

Well, the problem is more being a three-party system, than the map, which isn't much a problem (except in Saskatchewan, but that problem is currently being solved by the new commission).