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Thread #162855   Message #3906829
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
20-Feb-18 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From: DMcG
Date: 19 Feb 18 - 02:45 PM

Well, if an election does occur within the next year, it is worth remembering Amber Rudd has a majority of 346 and my Conservative MP a majority of 31. So here it only needs a fistful to vote differently. Impact is more about distribution than total.


It is also worth remembering that there is a bias in the number of seats each of the two major parties would win with the same voting majority (equally spread). It is surely time for boundary changes which would give us constituencies of roughly equal size (by voter numbers). This would also allow the Conservatives to make good on plans to reduce the total number of constituencies.