tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691671699575405507.post7063152338572601776..comments2024-03-10T22:25:07.539+00:00Comments on Wrecsam.news: New Westminster seats for Wales revealedPlaid Whitegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05757898330400853732noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691671699575405507.post-64649742179084596602012-01-11T10:43:15.769+00:002012-01-11T10:43:15.769+00:00given that most of the voting population just turn...given that most of the voting population just turn up, put a cross for their chosen party in a box and go home, these changes are really not that interesting. I for one do not care whether Anglesey is attached to Bangor or to Chepstow or Tregaron for that matter. The only people jumping up and down in protest here are the self serving MPs themselves and I for one would welcome a reduction from the excessive 40 we currently have, down to 3 never mind 30. As if you need attachment to a neighbouring community to be a consideration if you are concerned about EU policy, or an asylum seeker, or an English migrant who doesn't get the fact that the majority of bread and butter issues such as health and education are nothing to do with MPs anyway.Lionelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691671699575405507.post-30121051594752861852012-01-11T01:14:21.506+00:002012-01-11T01:14:21.506+00:00Upon further contemplation, it would appear that t...Upon further contemplation, it would appear that the only links connecting the northern and southern halves of the amazing new seat of Glyndwr and North Powys are country roads and unpaved tracks winding their way over the Berwyns! Love it.<br /><br />Can't see much that's good for Plaid in these changes, either. It seems to me there's only two seats - Gwynedd and Caerfyrddin - that they should be able to hold on to relatively comfortably. Labour will fancy their changes in Menai ac Ynys Mon.Rhys McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534937896669845274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691671699575405507.post-49443492031017801662012-01-11T01:12:40.146+00:002012-01-11T01:12:40.146+00:00Must admit I'm baffled as to why they thought ...Must admit I'm baffled as to why they thought it was a good idea to split the Ponciau ward so that Aberoer and Pentrebychan are in Wrecsam Maelor and Ponciau and Rhos are in Glyndwr North Powys.<br /> I suspect some dark motive to split the Jacko vote...Plaid Whitegatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05757898330400853732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-691671699575405507.post-71937016084417452682012-01-11T00:55:11.874+00:002012-01-11T00:55:11.874+00:00For anyone searching for a map, look here:
http:...For anyone searching for a map, look here: <br /><br />http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2012/01/10/the-new-map-of-wales-nation-s-mps-cut-by-10-as-boundaries-are-redrawn-91466-30098218/<br /><br />I honestly cannot get my head around just how nonsensical some of these new seats seem to be. I understand that the boundary commission has had a population quota to fulfill for each seat, but there are so many instances where wards with little or no connection to other communities in the new entities have been arbitrarily lumped together to make up the numbers. Take a look down at the valleys; a few wards in the Cynon valley have been arbitrarily added on to the Rhondda, and Newport West, for reasons I can't understand, stretches right over to Ystrad Mynach. Closer to home, I and my fellow denizens of Rhos will be voting to return an MP who will supposedly represent our views alongside those of the electors of Welshpool and Denbigh (the map is a little inaccurate where Rhos is concerned). <br /><br />Now, I suppose it must be a fairly difficult thing to do, but surely someone can come up with a better solution than this?!Rhys McKenziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08534937896669845274noreply@blogger.com