David Blunkett has accused the Tories of planning to gerrymander future elections due to the plan to reduce the number of seats in Parliament. I know, that doesn’t make sense!
What he really means is that the plan to make each seat represent the same number of electors (i.e. having the same size constituency) will take away the current bias in the electoral system which means the Tories need a lead of 8% to get the same seats. The cheek of it!
He talks about poor people not being willing to vote – which obviously is going to hurt Labour more than the Tories, but that is a problem of the parties not enthusing poor people to vote and not a problem with the electoral system. Go and take a look at Obama’s campaign if you really want to tackle that!
He really wants to entrench the current bias in the system for years to come, i.e. gerrymander to keep Labour in power.
Squiffy.
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