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Parliamentary Constituencies (Amendment) Bill: Committee Stage

I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Some absurd things are being thrown up by this review. For example, in my constituency the proposal was to have a boundary line which separated the shopping centre from the high street. It is utterly absurd and ludicrous.

The fact is that wherever we draw the line on a map when driven by a rigid mathematical equation we carve up communities, force unnatural alliances and throw communities together in ways that do not make sense and that end up deeply alienating the people we are elected to represent.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
643 c276 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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