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This is a link post UK Local Government Boundary Changes - Have Your Say
With the decision to allow users to enter a post code, send in a comment and annotate a map. So I expect a lot of future constituencies will be CDC shaped.
 (I helped save b3ta! transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:03, , Reply)
This is a normal post gerrymandering the fuck out of the place

(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:13, , Reply)
This is a normal post yep my Labour voting town nicely split into 3 to include local Tory voting rural areas
and a larger Tory town in one of these areas outnumbers the population in our town. Ain't democracy great?
 (theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post even without the potential gerrymandering
some divides are bizarre; splitting some rural towns and villages along rivers so half a community falls in a completely different town's constituency.

Splitting along a river makes more sense in a city where different areas more naturally fall either side of a river.
 (horrid, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:37, , Reply)
This is a normal post we have the tech to do this kind of stuff objectively and anonymously
in fact it's technically trivial. The problem is nobody will ever sanction it. the Boundaries Commission supposed impartiality is a joke - as soon as one party or another gets in they change everything (or as much as they can get away with) to suit their needs, it's utterly un-scientific, led by lawyers and the political party of the day.
 (theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:45, , Reply)
This is a normal post This is a country that gets upset about dialling codes
just imagine the flap if people had to change their political 'identity' because of an algorithm
 (benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 12:35, , Reply)
This is a normal post Bloody algorithms coming over here changing our boundrys

(I helped save b3ta! fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 16:39, , Reply)
This is a normal post It also Dick's up reporting for every service

(I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 21:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Sorry comrade.

(Master_Slob UK minister for cultural appropriation., Tue 17 Oct 2017, 20:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post next time Tim nice but dim

(theswollenbeef where there's a will there's a wank, Wed 18 Oct 2017, 13:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post
If we still have FPTP isn't this always going to be a bit of a waste of time? That is...if historical boundaries are such for practical reasons changing to get proportional areas under FPTP seems nonsensical?
 (I helped save b3ta! transparenttown Dead to worse..., Tue 17 Oct 2017, 11:41, , Reply)
This is a normal post FPTP is a failed system
Of course that means nothing in the decision as to whether we keep it as our only route to any form of democracy.
 (I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 13:21, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's doesn't seem to let me cut out London from the provincial racists that voted for brexit

(I helped save b3ta! DinivanX Has stinging piss after drinking Pact Coffee, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 12:25, , Reply)
This is a normal post Lived in that there London for 20 years.
Must have missed the time where it was a bastion for racial equality.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 18:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Isn't calling a group of people "provincial racists" and assuming all Brexit voters are such
Two pieces of sweeping generalisation? And therefore a bit bigoted in itself.

You seem to be what you hate.
 (I helped save b3ta! The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 20:14, , Reply)
This is a normal post Let's not forget that all the metropolitan racists voted for it too

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 20:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post Exactly
I am sure the common link is that they are racists which is the reason they voted for it rather than where they lived.

People should not attribute generalised characteristics of a few people onto all of a group of people based on where they live or were born.

I'm sure there is a word for when people do that, can't think of it right now.

Now I am also sure that not everyone who voted brexit is a racist, but I am pretty sure all the racists voted for brexit. I know some people who voted leave and while they may sometimes rant about jews when drunk I am sure that means nothing. If they were asked they would say they were not racist. They voted leave `so we would not be America's bitch any more`

Great, that has no chance of happening.

Some hilariously wanted to stick it to the tories, some were activists who just wanted a chance to do something, anything, so they decided to fuck things up for everyone else. One deluded bitch even voted leave because `jupiter was trine with Pluto so whatever I did would have been the right thing`.

Christ on a pogo stick, this is democracy, eh?

My anecdotal evidence suggests that leave voters were racists, or those stupid enough to be fooled by racists. Or astrologers, which is worse IMO. Would the vote still be respected if it were found that 2% were astrologers?

In a sane world, no.
 (I helped save b3ta! My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 21:26, , Reply)
This is a normal post I voted leave, I'm not a racist.
You however appear to be a deluded cunt.
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 21:32, , Reply)
This is a normal post All the racists that don't realise they're racist voted for it too

(benito vaselini no not that one, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 22:01, , Reply)
This is a normal post Unless the EU is a "race" how is being against it "racist"?

(I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 18 Oct 2017, 13:06, , Reply)
This is a normal post Democracy
This is what you have here. Pick out the minority who vote for all sorts of bizarre reasons but the majority is what matters. Using anecdotal evidence and statements which include every person in a group ("all racists vote Brexit" or the implied meaning of "would the vote be respected if it were found that 2% were astrologers") are at best unhelpful and at worst just as bigoted - you make a good point in your second paragraph and then go against it in the rest if the post. Again, you just can't sweep everyone into one pile. That is the same thing the people you hate are doing.
 (I helped save b3ta! The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Tue 17 Oct 2017, 22:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's not democratic to let idiots vote

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Wed 18 Oct 2017, 19:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post So your suggesting removing the vote from those deemed not worthy of it?
"Would you like to know more?"
 (I helped save b3ta! Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 18 Oct 2017, 21:11, , Reply)
This is a normal post It is absolutely democratic to let everyone vote. That's the definition.
What the fuck are you talking about?
 (I helped save b3ta! The_cold_stare Coming here only when very, very bored, Wed 18 Oct 2017, 21:16, , Reply)
This is a normal post *sighs*

(I helped save b3ta! Fadgebadger (1 like), Thu 19 Oct 2017, 21:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post We had this here in Northern Ireland a while back
I am now technically a resident of a village 3 miles from here even though we live within the 30mph signs of our town and a mile or so on the side of the river the previous boundary was set with. All so as some local bean counter can juggle the already rigged voting system.
 (I helped save b3ta! oldpoint is up in space doing important work for NASA., Tue 17 Oct 2017, 14:20, , Reply)
This is a normal post Hah, no change to Partridge Toon. Tory central, I wonder why?

(Master_Slob UK minister for cultural appropriation., Tue 17 Oct 2017, 20:47, , Reply)