Message from @Eccles

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2020-01-15 12:50:27 UTC  

...right?

2020-01-15 12:53:21 UTC  

Why the heck is Boris planning scrap the boundary review reduction of seats from 650 to 600?

2020-01-15 12:53:28 UTC  

Something like that yes

2020-01-15 12:59:39 UTC  

what?

2020-01-15 12:59:45 UTC  

eccles, do you have a source on that

2020-01-15 12:59:56 UTC  

on what?

2020-01-15 13:00:07 UTC  

``[12:53] Eccles: Why the heck is Boris planning scrap the boundary review reduction of seats from 650 to 600?``

2020-01-15 13:00:20 UTC  

Sure

2020-01-15 13:00:40 UTC  

What will be the result of that boundary change

2020-01-15 13:01:14 UTC  

Idea is to ensure each constituency represents roughly the same number of citizens

2020-01-15 13:01:37 UTC  

^

2020-01-15 13:02:04 UTC  

At the moment, London is hopelessly overrepresented by MPs

2020-01-15 13:02:14 UTC  

So the result will probably be fewer Labour MPs

2020-01-15 13:03:28 UTC  

But not by much

2020-01-15 13:04:05 UTC  

the only thing there that says boris is planning on scrapping it is just literally those 14 words ``Boris’s plan to scrap the boundary review’s reduction of seats from 650 to 600.``

i combed the included video 3 times to find no mention of it and there appears to also be no further mention of it. so i think that this claim is false until otherwise proven

2020-01-15 13:04:43 UTC  

the focus seems to be more on the supreme court

2020-01-15 13:05:15 UTC  

so unless you have any other material on that, i'm inclined not to believe it

2020-01-15 13:05:56 UTC  

It's rumour

2020-01-15 13:06:03 UTC  

Referenced here:

2020-01-15 13:06:25 UTC  

oh wait.. Ive been watching last weeks PMQs 😛 doh

2020-01-15 13:06:28 UTC  

yeah i read this too

2020-01-15 13:06:38 UTC  

so a rumour only, alright

2020-01-15 13:06:50 UTC  

we'll know when the concrete bill is proposed

2020-01-15 13:06:59 UTC  

either way, the boundary changes are necessary

2020-01-15 13:07:07 UTC  

as is supreme court reform

2020-01-15 13:08:22 UTC  

Fail, Wacka.

2020-01-15 13:10:10 UTC  

Are they doing anything about Scottish overrepresentation?

2020-01-15 13:11:03 UTC  

Scotland aren't overrepresented, unless you consider devolution to be such

2020-01-15 13:11:57 UTC  

They clearly are, The SNP got 48 seats with only 3.8% of the popular vote

2020-01-15 13:12:16 UTC  

Some of that is down to FPTP but some of it is down to Scottish Overrepresentation

2020-01-15 13:12:21 UTC  

that's not relevent, lizard -are the constituencies the same number of people,. by and large, as the rest of the uK?

2020-01-15 13:19:07 UTC  

They need to reduce from 650 to 600 mps just so they can all fucking sit down

2020-01-15 13:34:25 UTC  

has a crowdfund started to ring BIg Ben for brexit and if so where is it?

2020-01-15 13:37:58 UTC  

I dont think its that they are overrepresented... I think its just a low voter turnout

2020-01-15 13:38:20 UTC  

cos less than 2% of the UK voted SNP and they have over 5% of the seats

2020-01-15 13:38:57 UTC  

or less than 2% of UK voters voted SNP

2020-01-15 13:41:23 UTC  

don't htink so, mood

2020-01-15 13:45:37 UTC  

well how much % of scotland voted SNP since they like to make it about them <:smugon:512048583806025739>

2020-01-15 13:45:46 UTC  

if it's a low % in their own nation that's going to be funny