A new campaign group, Keep Cornwall Whole, looks set to lobby The Boundary Commission. This would suit Cornwall's MPs because it shifts the focus away from Parliament and takes the heat off them. But if you read the Bill, it's quite clear that if it gets through Parliament in its present form, thousands of Cornish voters will have to share their constituency with Devon at the next election.
Keep Cornwall Whole is lead by the Lib Dem Mayor of Saltash, Adam Killeya. I am not aware of a separate campaign lead by the Conservatives, but in these modern coalition times I suspect that Keep Cornwall Whole will suffice for both Tories and Liberal Democrats.
As I have blogged in previous posts, the Labour Party has its own self-interested reasons for opposing the Parliamentary Voting Systems and Constituencies Bill but that doesn't mean the votes of Labour MPs, together with those of the Scottish Nationalists and Plaid Cymru, cannot be used to "Keep Cornwall Whole." Labour's Jude Robinson has started an on-line petition.
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