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ceemageThe proposals by the English Boundary Commission for Sunderland (and Tyne and Wear generally) are actually not too bad - unlike a previous draft where they had Sunderland split across 6 different seats. I feel the Washington seat goes rather too far inland, but the poor Commissioners have got to get enough people in to make quota from SOMEWHERE.
I am actually fairly kind to the Boundary Commissioners, since the rules they work under are more proscriptive these days, and they inevitably end up with "fixing X here breaks Y over there." Unlike, say, a certain friend of mine, who is quite prepared to tell the Northern Ireland Boundary Commissioners that they have "misdirected themselves." Both on a blog post and in an official comment.
Still waiting for the NI Boundary Commissioners to be told one day that they have 17½ seats to allocate, and they end up having to do a deal with their Scottish counterparts to create "Giant's Causeway Central."
In Hawaiian district re-apportionment jargon, this is known as a "canoe seat." Yes, Hawaiian district re-apportionment jargon *is* a thing, even if it's not as widely known as Thieves' Can't, or Polari..
I am actually fairly kind to the Boundary Commissioners, since the rules they work under are more proscriptive these days, and they inevitably end up with "fixing X here breaks Y over there." Unlike, say, a certain friend of mine, who is quite prepared to tell the Northern Ireland Boundary Commissioners that they have "misdirected themselves." Both on a blog post and in an official comment.
Still waiting for the NI Boundary Commissioners to be told one day that they have 17½ seats to allocate, and they end up having to do a deal with their Scottish counterparts to create "Giant's Causeway Central."
In Hawaiian district re-apportionment jargon, this is known as a "canoe seat." Yes, Hawaiian district re-apportionment jargon *is* a thing, even if it's not as widely known as Thieves' Can't, or Polari..
