Originally Posted by Neil (Post 933142)

How often have you contacted your MP about an issue?
Most people never will so will it really make any difference to them if he/she is a little further away when they need them?

It has been mentioned on here before that we have to many MP's.


I would be more worried if they decided to get rid of HBC and move the same wards into Blackburn and Burnley.

Originally Posted by Neil (Post 933152)

I suppose it depends on your definition of local.
If you live in Rishton Blackburn is about the same distance to Accy.

What is important is that your MP is accessible when required.

Graham is a good one, he splits his time between here and London but if you need him and he is in London at the time it makes no difference if he lives in Accy or Blackburn.

I was reading about an MP in the paper the other day who has not held a surgery for years and you have to make an appointment to see him. It did not say where meetings took place but implied in London.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 933149)

its important to me that the person selected to represent us at Westminster is some one local

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 933170)

If only Margaret Thatcher had to try and get a seat in Lincolnshire, rather than miles away in London, we might not have heard of her.

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 933181)

And your point

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 933199)

Just that Mrs. Thatcher, Winston Churchill, and countless others represented constituencies in which they had no ties, and weren't local.

If forced to fight for a local seat we might never have heard of them.

;)

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 933181)

And your point

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 933205)

Who knows? Perhaps Karen Buckley could have been the next Mrs. Thatcher.

If only those mean local Tories had given her a half decent chance, and supported her.

Instead of ripping up their party membership cards, and spitting out their dummies, because her links to the area were only through her mother.

Guess we'll never know.

Poor Mrs. Buckley.

:rolleyes:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 933208)

My thoughts were aired about Ms Buckley at the time and at least I had the courage of my own convictions on a matter of principal having a candidates list forced on us my CCO

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 933211)

...and if the local Tories in Finchley had thought the same as you, you'd never have had your Mrs. Thatcher.


:rofl38::rofl38::rofl38:

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 933212)

have no doubt that Margaret Hilda would have been MP for Grantham if she had needed to :)

Originally Posted by Tealeaf (Post 933126)

RIP Hyndburn with Haslingden

The Boundary Commission this morning announced the passing away of the Hyndburn with Haslingden Constituency. There will be no funeral; instead, the body will be divided in two; the right half will become part of Dingle land and the left half will be blasted into the wildlands of somewhere called Darwen and Haslingden.

Flowers may be sent to everyone in the constituency, but especially to Graham Jones, M.P.

Originally Posted by lancsdave (Post 933241)

Makes sense to me that the RIGHT half becomes Dingleland and the WRONG half goes elsewhere :D