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Originally Posted by Ken Moss
To my mind it's a question of practicality. It costs money and since townships evolve all the time this will end up being a neverending exercise under the excuse of political balance and even numbers. Under the proposed changes Rishton, Great Harwood and St Oswalds will move into Blackburn parliamentary territory whilst remaining under the remit of Hyndburn Borough Council.
People won't like it, it just doesn't make sense to keep messing about with boundaries.
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So the only way to solve this age old problem is to make the Boundaries Commission totally independent from all colours of government, (and if you think they already are your living on cloud cuckoo land) who, on election, try to undo the changes made by their predecessors, only then will we get a system that is fair to the people who really matter, the electorate
