Rearranging the Deckchairs on the Titanic will certainly lead to a further catastrophic split in Northumberland Conservatives?

Ian Levy MP has issued a news article, printed in the News Post Leader stating that Blyth Valley will exist after the Boundary Commission’s national consultation on changes designed to draw in 10 additional safe conservative seats and further reduce the power of any opposition party to remove the Tories from Government in future.

These proposals have already been knocked back by Parliament on two previous occasions and abandoned but PM Boris Johnson decided that as the proposals aid his party he would remove the final vote on decision making by MP’s and redefine the Boundary Commission, gifting it the ability to operate as a type of NGO, outside of democratic regulation and historical acceptance by the people and for the people and make changes willy nilly as it sees fit.

The proposals, to slash back the number of constituencies across the UK (probably to allow everyone to sit down in the about to be newly modernised at great expense Palace of Westminster) contains proposals which show that people are only numbers and that traditional boundaries and historical communities are to be defined by algorithms in future and that history doesn’t matter, changing people's view of locality forever.

So how does that work in reality and why is Ian Levy’s promise to retain Byth Valley intact a non-starter?

Firstly, the Boundary Commission has decided that it no longer has to take the population of an area into consideration when playing out its numbers game and will only work on the number of folk registered to vote.

Secondly in Northumberland the Commission has decided that one constituency has to disappear and as only Blyth Valley has anywhere near enough voters to meet the requirements of the commission its voting populus must be shared to help out areas containing less voter numbers (not people you notice).

The proposals for Northumberland contain two outside of Northumberland cross boundary constituencies and may weaken the Conservatives from an overall perspective in the longer term and MP’s may force through an early election in 2023 in order to miss the changes until 2028.

But the proposal that is most interesting is one we will call Seaton Valley with Whitley Bay as during 1973 referendums were held across Seaton Valley which was much larger than today and some communities decided to join up with Blyth Valley a District Council dominated by a historical County and others with North Tyneside a proposed at that time Metropolitan Borough Council sitting within a new County structure that was eventually abolished.

Now that people are back in public life with talk circulating more freely in pubs and clubs we are led to believe that the top Tory from Cramlington, County Councillor Wayne Daley covets this seat but as you will see from the article link below Ian Levy is desperate to hang onto Cramlington and is backed by the Morpeth Mob who would use their current standing to slash and burn all other constituencies to save their man and leave Wayne Daley who opposed the mobs unlovable leader Ghengis Peter Jackson and aided his removal from office.

So as voters across North Tyneside, Durham and Northumberland who are now linked together through the numbers game and not democracy we will have to watch this emerging picture and see how much support is gifted to Ian Levy by those sitting in their capital of the North, Morpeth, well below Boris Johnson but may be influential from a County Boundary perspective.

https://www.newspostleader.co.uk/news/politics/mp-column-blyth-valley-will-not-be-abolished-3268295