I cannot take anything Tom Watson says seriously - this quote from the article is enough 'Since the election, we have already learned that the Tories plan to gerrymander parliamentary constituencies in their favour and remove voting rights from Scottish MPs.'
He should look up what Gerrymander actually means.
From Wikipedia "In the process of setting electoral districts, gerrymandering is a practice that attempts to establish a political advantage for a particular party or group by manipulating district boundaries to create partisan advantaged districts. "
In this country the independent electoral commission determines boundaries, not the government. IN the last parliament the honest, democratic, decent etc etc Lib Dems combined with labour to block reform, included in which were measures to reduce the number of constituencies (save money for the country) and equalise the numbers of voters in each.
It is a disgrace that voters on the Isle of Wight say have a vote that is worth only 0.196 that of a vote in Na h-Eileanan An Iar (110,924 registered to vote versus 21,837). It will never be possible to have exactly even boundaries, but we could at least try.
Originally Posted by: turbotubbs