Fred's comment is right. Andy Burnham is much the best MP Leigh has ever had. He is a politician though!

rr-bce-static.s3.amazonaws.com/w ... pdf?9d7bd4 71. With the transfer of Hindley to our proposed Westhoughton constituency, our proposed Makerfield constituency extends south east to incorporate Golborne. Our proposed Leigh constituency includes the towns of Irlam and Walkden with much of the town of Leigh. The remaining wards that are currently located in the Worsley and Eccles South constituency are combined with the town of Swinton in our proposed Swinton constituency. rr-bce-static.s3.amazonaws.com/w ... pdf?9d7bd4 We ask everyone wishing to contribute to the design of the new constituencies to first read the Initial proposals report and accompanying maps before responding to us. In particular, we would like to know: • if you agree in full, in part or not at all with our initial proposals for the North West region; • which sub-regions you agree with and why; • which sub-regions you disagree with and why; and • if you can propose alternatives for areas you disagree with that meet the statutory rules we set out in our report.

rr-bce-static.s3.amazonaws.com/w ... pdf?9d7bd4 71. With the transfer of Hindley to our proposed Westhoughton constituency, our proposed Makerfield constituency extends south east to incorporate Golborne. Our proposed Leigh constituency includes the towns of Irlam and Walkden with much of the town of Leigh. The remaining wards that are currently located in the Worsley and Eccles South constituency are combined with the town of Swinton in our proposed Swinton constituency. rr-bce-static.s3.amazonaws.com/w ... pdf?9d7bd4 We ask everyone wishing to contribute to the design of the new constituencies to first read the Initial proposals report and accompanying maps before responding to us. In particular, we would like to know: • if you agree in full, in part or not at all with our initial proposals for the North West region; • which sub-regions you agree with and why; • which sub-regions you disagree with and why; and • if you can propose alternatives for areas you disagree with that meet the statutory rules we set out in our report.

Walkden and Irlam – currently part of the Worsley seat – are set to go to Andy Burnham’s Leigh constituency.

Leigh is becoming bigger Mr C NOT dissapearing

The world's gone mad. What's wrong with the Leigh constituency just having Leigh & district, Salford having it's own areas etc. It'll never catch on.

No need for a SL team in Salford, if it ceases to exist!

Salford...small City in Leigh.



Does that mean we've gained Man Utd as our local football club?

Little Hulton, Walkden and Irlam = More looney left wing voters. Comrade Burnham should be happy. His seat at the top table of the politbureau.....I mean Labour Party is secure.

Don't know why they have done that because all that is between Leigh and Irlam is Chat Moss.

Wonder who's brainchild

this whole thing was ?
Crazy idea , saying that it is only voting wards area's that are changing unless I've missed summat , ( note to self go bk and have another read )

The Watcher believes is reduction in the number of MPs is well over due. Every other "industry" has had to reduce its workforce to save money & become more efficient so why not the free loading money grabbers at Westminster.

No offence lads, but who gives a **** about constituency boundaries ?

Could this open the door for Leigh to have a real shout in the future to regain its borough status?.if not then what does it matter?.

The Watcher believes the answer is "The Boundary Commission for England". Is he correct.

Electorial boundries are usually changed by a party in power to make sure they stay in. The last Tory government did it as soon as they got into power. Thanks Thatcher. Never mind having too many MPs Watcher you will be moaning when you have no one to represent you. These things are done to manipulate the vote not to save us money. Also the public sector is in for one massive upheavel and this could be part of the governments stratergy to combat it's effects. As a trade union member myself I hope the public sector workers bring this shower of s down. Non of us should be paying for the cities behaviour but we are and they are trying to make us pay for the lot. Up the workers. Rant over.

While we are having personal off-topic rants - I am not a union member and I think all trade unions should be abolished - they serve no useful purpose whatsoever in a modern society as far as I can see.

No idea. I've no real interest in the matter beyond wondering why anyone else has any interest in the matter.

It's not an off topic rant Map it's all connected. Just like I said to Watcher, when they are gone you will be sorry and the only way you will be able to turn to put your point across will be violent because you will have to counter the violence from the powers that be. I used to go to a Budist retreat near Ulverston and was sort of taught their gentle ways but even they had to resort to violence in their homelands because thats all they had left after being made to have it for too long. Representation is a very important thing for the working man and woman and should not be lost.

Are you not going to be able to vote or summat ?

The Unions crippled our country in the 70's. They drove global companies out of our country who wouldn't be held to ransom by the unions. It took a lot of hard work by Lady Thatcher to entice brands like Toyota, Nissan and Honda to invest in our country. I hope the current coalition come down hard on any civil unrest caused by the trouble making unions this winter. I would certainly encourage the deployment of troops on the streets with live weapons to restore any unrest. Zero tolerance on these communist types would certainly stop anything getting out of hand and destroying our image as a welcoming, flexible country to do business in.

But would you if your vote meant absolutely nothing. Which is what is happening election after election.

Hence why I haven't voted for 20 odd years

It's called democracy

Sorry but haven't two of those closed or reduced their opperations here now. Is that down to the unions. I hope you have all your retirement money in pensions that are being plundered by the government. See you in the soup kitchen

Quote ="TV BOY"Sorry but haven't two of those closed or reduced their opperations here now. Is that down to the unions. I hope you have all your retirement money in pensions that are being plundered by the government. See you in the soup kitchen '" All three are still in production. Nissan Sunderland is expanding and both Derby and Swindon have returned to near normal production following the recession (although Honda Swindon still has supply problems from Japan due to the effects of the Sunami). The plundering of the pensions was caused by the Labour government and Chancellor Brown. You can't put that one on the coalition. www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 43730.html

Quote ="TV BOY"Sorry but haven't two of those closed or reduced their opperations here now. Is that down to the unions. I hope you have all your retirement money in pensions that are being plundered by the government. See you in the soup kitchen '" All three are still in production. Nissan Sunderland is expanding and both Derby and Swindon have returned to near normal production following the recession (although Honda Swindon still has supply problems from Japan due to the effects of the Sunami). The plundering of the pensions was caused by the Labour government and Chancellor Brown. You can't put that one on the coalition. www.independent.co.uk/news/busin ... 43730.html

Well said.

They have served their purpose and are now outdated. Why should a mass strike dictate wages and pensions, yet the little guy working for a small company that is struggling to keep going can only seek employment elsewhere or lump it and stay. Also well done Ed Milliband today - finally grown some.
My opinion as a working class person

Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.

You can call it the Patriotic Retirement Plan:

There are about 10 million people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them £1 million each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire.
Ten million job openings - unemployment fixed

2) They MUST buy a new British car.
Ten million cars ordered - Car Industry fixed

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage -
Housing Crisis fixed

4) They MUST send their kids toschool/college/university -
Crime rate fixed

5) They MUST buy £100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week .....
And there's your money back in duty/tax etc

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know