Parliamentary Boundary Change - Page 7

shillelagh · 14-09-2011, 00:48

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Originally Posted by garinda

Where's Ossy going?

I'll be damned if they try and annex us to bloody Lytham St. Annes.

looks like you cant get rid of me rindy ... you coming with us into Darwen and Haslingden ......

garinda · 14-09-2011, 01:19

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Originally Posted by shillelagh

looks like you cant get rid of me rindy ... you coming with us into Darwen and Haslingden ......

No!

I think it's bloomin' stupid Dawen's with Haslingden anyway.

Separated as they are by miles, and miles of moorland.

If Ossy joined them it'll be like the freakin' Bermuda Triangle, with a few windmills stuck in the middle.

Darren!

How shaming.

Like a long, drawn out Burnley, with a tower stuck on top.

Think I'll get a caravan, and become a traveller.

Then I can pitch up in any M.P.'s constituency I choose.

garinda · 14-09-2011, 01:24

On second thoughts.

With feet in two constituent camps, so to speak.

Double the number of politicans to slag off.

garinda · 14-09-2011, 06:53

Hyndburn MP Graham Jones accused the Government of 'gerrymandering' the consituency boundaries for electoral gain.
Hyndburn set to lose MP in boundary shake-up | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk

Graham, do you think this locally, or nationally?

If locally, what effect do you think the proposed changes will have for us?

'The public have three months to give their views.'
To respond visit the Boundary Commission website, email [email protected] or write to Boundary Commission for England, 35 Great Smith Street, London SW1P 3BQ.

garinda · 14-09-2011, 06:58

I think we'll all lose out.

Having two M.P.s partly covering the one political borough.

I can't see any positives for the whole of Hyndburn, if these proposed changes go ahead.

Margaret Pilkington · 14-09-2011, 07:03

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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE

Oi missus, I was brought up over yon

Careful how you diss the area

OK Bernie...wasn't getting at you....and was talking about NOW....it is like the badlands over that way now.

Tealeaf · 14-09-2011, 07:23

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Originally Posted by garinda

I think we'll all lose out.

Having two M.P.s partly covering the one political borough.

I can't see any positives for the whole of Hyndburn, if these proposed changes go ahead.

That is something of an understatement. It's going to be a disaster - especially for Church & Ossy. We are going to be the smallest element of a multi-borough constituency whose MP will no doubt have to pander to the Darwen or Rossendale pressure. We'll be sidelined from the start.

BERNADETTE · 14-09-2011, 07:25

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

OK Bernie...wasn't getting at you....and was talking about NOW....it is like the badlands over that way now.

Yeah I know Marg, Mum still lives over there

jaysay · 14-09-2011, 08:52

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Originally Posted by garinda

Where's Ossy going?

I'll be damned if they try and annex us to bloody Lytham St. Annes.

That's a shame if it had been before the last election we could have had Karen as a "Local" candidate

jaysay · 14-09-2011, 09:00

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

That is something of an understatement. It's going to be a disaster - especially for Church & Ossy. We are going to be the smallest element of a multi-borough constituency whose MP will no doubt have to pander to the Darwen or Rossendale pressure. We'll be sidelined from the start.

Hell I find myself agreeing with you Tealeaf, to be quite honest I don't think the people who are charged with making these decisions fail to take into account local traditions what so ever, Blackburn is Blackburn and Rossendale is Rossendale, I know we are near neighbours but our outlooks are totally different. Besides that we will still be under the same Hyndburn flag at local level, is it any wonder that the rank and file of local people haven't got a clue whats happening with politics, there is always some boffin state in a London office trying to muddy the waters

shillelagh · 14-09-2011, 15:14

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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

That is something of an understatement. It's going to be a disaster - especially for Church & Ossy. We are going to be the smallest element of a multi-borough constituency whose MP will no doubt have to pander to the Darwen or Rossendale pressure. We'll be sidelined from the start.

its like that now ... except its haslingden rather than church and ossy ....