Andrew George voted for Labour amendment
Trying to make sense of record of who supported what last night - and it appears that St Ives MP Andrew George found himself in a different lobby to Cornwall's five other coalition MPs when it came to the frequency of Boundary Commission reviews.
The government line is that constituency boundaries should be re-drawn every five years. A Labour amendment sought to change a line in Clause 8 to make reviews every ten years. Andrew voted with Labour. Stephen Gilbert, Sheryll Murray, Sarah Newton, Dan Rogerson and George Eustice all obeyed their whips and voted for a five-year-merry-go-round.
I'm 成人快手 Radio Devon鈥檚 Graham Smith, blogging on news, views and some fresh insights into West Country life, particularly the way government works locally and nationally.
Comment number 1.
At 21st Oct 2010, backofanenvelope wrote:The sensible way would be to have a one-off review and equalise the electorate for each parliamentary seat. Then have a review after each census - that is, every ten years. This is, I believe, the US system.
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Comment number 2.
At 22nd Oct 2010, Peter Tregantle wrote:Graham that鈥檚 all well and good but how did the four MPs who will be impacted by this change vote, George is just one insignificant liberal impersonator who only grabs headlines because he is really MK head stooge, this has nothing to do with George
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Comment number 3.
At 22nd Oct 2010, CJenkin wrote:What nonsense from Mr Tregantle, Andrew George MP is not a MK stooge. He is not a member of that party and MK stood against him at the last election. From the article you might be able to suggest he is more inbed with the labour party! There are more than 4 MPs that will be impacted by this all 650 will as will we all as electors.
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Comment number 4.
At 22nd Oct 2010, Saltashgaz wrote:Oh Dear Peter you are attracting the attention of C24 dwellers, not often they venture this far out into the open. Though it is rather pathetic coming to 成人快手 Cornwall鈥檚 political blog and trying to make out George is not the most vocal nationalist and does more than MK can dream of for the movement.
Why not stay on a site that needs to invent history like the Tamar is a 1000 year old border or the famous Cornish gene. Cornish extremism is an invention of 10 sad old men on C24 and that is the message, who sent Trembath here to represent the nats. Say no more
I have read Grahams blog for some time and he is not as stupid and you would like him to be. George is head Nat and all you do Conan along with Richard is confirm the link between MK and the Celtic league via your mate Richard, I will not expand.
The border is just an English county and his nothing to do with you in the deep west.
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Comment number 5.
At 22nd Oct 2010, Saltashgaz wrote:Sorry for typos guys been to France to get some Gran Cru for Christmas. My typos are not pretend like MC鈥檚 diet. I just had to comment on Conan鈥檚 weak attack on Peter, think on this he stood in the general election in the nat heartland and lost his deposit!
At least George won and has some form of support.
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Comment number 6.
At 22nd Oct 2010, P_Trembath wrote:Saltashgaz wrote:-
"...who sent Trembath here to represent the nats..."
Who sent you?
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Comment number 7.
At 23rd Oct 2010, youngcornwall wrote:This comment was removed because the moderators found it broke the house rules. Explain.
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Comment number 8.
At 23rd Oct 2010, Tynegod wrote:Not old Dick Talbot, is it, Gaz?
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Comment number 9.
At 23rd Oct 2010, youngcornwall wrote:Saltashgaz
鈥淕eorge is head Nat and all you do Conan along with Richard is confirm the link between MK and the Celtic league鈥
Who in their right mind would want to be associated with the Celtic league after recent carryings on? Not to mention Mike Chappell鈥檚 latest letter to the PM.
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Comment number 10.
At 24th Oct 2010, Tynegod wrote:Cornwall now has all 6 of its Members of Parliament in a position to make a difference for Cornwall, as part of a ruling Government.
They appear to have wasted a golden opportunity to defend "Athelstan's Sacred Boundary".
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Comment number 11.
At 24th Oct 2010, Saltashgaz wrote:I may be alone in thinking even 600 MP鈥檚 is too many given the power is in Europe, but as a theoretical compromise how about having one MP for Cornwall, I suspect the power based purely on population would be from the more English East Cornwall removing the madness of the west. The mad west can not complain as this is what they 鈥溾漜laim鈥濃 to want 鈥 One Cornwall- think about it and lets call the bluff of the nats
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