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Thread #157929   Message #3731454
Posted By: GUEST
19-Aug-15 - 08:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: electing a new labour leader
Subject: RE: BS: electing a new labour leader
"[gerrymandering]"
On a large scale, the six Counties of Northern Ireland were deliberately chosen to provide a Protestant majority - three counties of Ulster were rejected because that would have put the balance in facour of the Catholics - classical gerrymandering.
On a smaller scale, Dame Shirley Porter in Westminster, deliberately moved council tenants out of their homes into a neighboring borough in order to create a Conservative majority.
This was carried out under the pretext of repairing the property, which was in fact gentrified and put on the market.
All this was compounded by the fact that the property the original tenants were moved into was riddled with asbestos, putting the health and even the lives of the occupants at risk - gerrymandering at the most extreme.
Dame Shirl later did a runner and settled Israel, owing Britain £30m
Jim Carroll