Tuesday 14 September 2010

Many amendments to the Bill, but none on Cornwall (so far)

Members of Parliament are clearly very worked up about the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill. You can see here how it is attracting fresh amendments on an almost daily basis. Among those tabled so far - hands off the Isle of Wight, letting the Boundary Commission take county boundaries into account (but not at the expense of equal sized constituencies,) promoting a fully proportional voting system, rather than the Alternative Vote, and delaying the date of the proposed referendum to 8th September rather than 5th May (which coincides with elections in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and could see interesting variations in turnout in different parts of the UK.) But no specific mention of Cornwall. Yet. What can explain this very relaxed approach of Cornwall's MPs? Do they have an ace up their sleeve?

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