Rather than frightening, I find the whole of page 48 uplifting, and a refreshing change from the real frightener of a Corbyn led Marxist Leninist cabal with the keys to and unfettered access to downing sreet?
Just taking one item of the shopping list publishedhere is clearly a great deal of merit in a change of boundaries!
Looking at Scotland first of all – and just to be clear “I am not commenting on rights or wrongs of independence or the SNP demands for another referendum due to their opinion that they now have the mandate for independence “, –
and you will see why it is clear they need to work fast, before any border changes are proposed!
The SNP , under the FPtP system attracted some 45% of the vote and were rewarded with 48 MP’s, whilst the other parties in Scotland attracted 55% of.the vote, so more votes than the SNP,, yet these parties only returned 11 MP’s –
1.24 million SNP votes equates to around 24500 votes per MP returned, compared to The Tories who had the support of 692,000 , or around 56% of the SNP votes yet returned only 6 MP’s , which equates to 115000 votes per MP, and the LibUndems ,needed 66000 votes for each MP, and then, Labour which attracted some 500,000 plus votes, yet only returned 1 MP- that is inequitable , and unsustainable of course in the modern era!
In Wales the situation is –
That Labour had to attract about 28700 votes per MP , Tories 39800 votes per MP, Plaid Cymru 82500 votes per MP, LibUndems 92000 votes yet no MP, and Brexit Party 84000 votes – no MP!
As far as the UK overall is concerned , The Tories had to attract 38260 votes per MP, similar to Labour 44600 per MP, IibUndems 32,700 per MP, the Greens attracted some 857,000 votes yet only 1 MP, & the Brexit Party had more than 632,000 ( around 50% of the SNP vote) yet did not even get one MP!
the Libs attracted over 3 times the votes of the SNP, for a return of only 11 MP’s ?
This is not equitable either, and surely not sustainable?