Boundary Change Causes Confusion

Having lived in the same house for the last 29 years I suddenly discover that I have been moved by the boudary changes for this election and rather than voting for my MP for my local area based around the town that is about 5 miles away I am now voting for an MP based in a town 25 miles away and a town I have only visited once in the last 20 years.

I don’t pretend that sorting out the boundaries to create evenly matched constituances is an easy task but I feel almost disenfranchised. I have never heard of the people I will now be asked to choose between. I have absolutely no connection with the area where the MP is based and it comes as no surprise that I haven’t even received an election leaflet through the door let alone met my prospective MP.

Big government has been making people feel less and less connected with the people who decide our fate in London and the expenses scandal people emphasised how far removed from ordinary people our supposed representatives in Parliament really are. Now, in my case, I have been even further removed from any connection whatsoever with the person who is supposed to represent me.