BOTH residents of Atcham will be furious about this!

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My MP for South Herefordshire (Jesse Norman)is disgruntled, as am I, that deepest darkest South Hereford, including Ewyas Harold and the Golden Valley, is being merged in with Church Stretton! It is very important we keep these County identities! I know they want to even out the numbers but at what cost?

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good way to keep shropshire blue, viva la conservative party bye bye socialist telfordian scummers

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everywhere being gerrymandered just happens to include Labour MP’s – so north shropshie and shrewsbury are untouched but the Labour vote in Telford is split in two, same in London and Birmingham, its gerrymandering plain and simple, its corruption by the government MP’s simples. I would expect them to advantage themselves of course but the problem is by doing this, it just means as soon as they are hoofed out, the next Labour government will do the same to advantage themselves in return. So the cycle of corruption will be ongoing. Not good for people or politics in general.

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The original term for manipulating ward/constituency boundaries to benefit one particular party was “gerrymandering” (as the first constituency so produced, to the advantage of a Governor Gerry, resembled the shape of a salamander).

The new Bridgnorth & South Telford seat looks a silhouette of an elephant’s head, with an extremely long trunk (which will no doubt come in useful for sucking from the expenses trough).

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With people losing jobs as a result of the present economic climate, MPs should be no exception. The whole thing is a cost-cutting exercise and most companies have had to do the same kind of reorganisation, so in a way it’s welcome. Why so much protest?

Proably because it will not actually save us any money R Suppards!

Look at the unitary option, promising a huge cut in councillors then promptly doubling their allowances when it came in.

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how dare the boundaries commission tinker with county boundaries. ludlow and leominster certainly not. the b/comm. are doing the same thing in a new constituency twixt cornwall and devon. ther county boundary is the river tamar and they want to link bude in cornwall with bideford in north devon . the natives are restless.

please rethink the north hereford south shropshire seat, and surely telford is big enough for its own seat

if i had any say i would have 4 seats, shrewsbury and atcham, telford, north shropshire and south shropshire. personally i would be sorry to lose mark prichard as an mp. he has backbone and an unusual tory mp from a council estate.

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